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81. V. lactea, Sm., V. canina, Z., h. lactea, Bah. Man. 41, ed. 7. 

 Smithes Dog Violet. 

 Native ; on commons, and in waste heathy or turfy spots. 

 Locally common. 3Iay, June, 

 c. I. Viverdon Down. Pillaton Down. Hammett Down, and in heathy 

 gromid between Hammett and Clapper Bridge. Cadsonbury. 

 II. Abundant in a strip of waste furzy ground by the St. Dominick 

 Road, above Vernico Down, growmg with V. canina. Kingston 

 Down, in plenty. 

 D. III. Roborough Down ! Keys, Fl. ii. 49 ; a plant with quite white 

 flowers there in 1876. Plaster DoA\-n. 

 IV. Abundant in a lane to the left of the road leading from the top 

 of Castle Farm hill to Plymbridge ; Rev. W. S. Hor e ; iie-AX 

 Shaugh ! Jacob, Fl. part 12. Bickleigh ! E. B. ii. 22, ed. 3. 

 Cann Wood ; near Boringdon Mine, Plympton ; Keys, ibid. 

 "Waste spots near Thorn bury and Fancy, with V. canina. 

 Hemerdon. Wigford Down. 

 V. Crownhill Down, near the Cornwood and iMeavy Road. 

 VI. Very sparingly on the open moor or common near Pithill Farm- 

 house, Ivybridge, at about 600 feet. 



h. intei'raedia, Wats. 

 0. II. With V. canina and the type in heathy ground above Vernico 



Down. 

 D. IV. In turfy or furzy spots about hedge-banks, where formerly was 

 the open common of Egg Buckland Down. In a waste spot 

 near Fancy, with the type and canina. In a rough, uncultivated 

 piece of gromid in a field by Roborough Down, near Leeford, 

 Viola lactea ascends to just over 700 feet on Hmgston Down, and to 

 650 on that of Roborough. 



I am disposed to regard it as a variety of canina, L., since lanceolate- 

 leaved plants seem connected with cordate by a series of forms. 

 However, I express my opinion with some diffidence, as Mr. AVatson 

 seems rather to incline to the opposite view. I have never seen lactea 

 with so short a spur as that given to the figui*e m Enrjlish Botany, 

 though I have very often found the flowers damaged by having had the 

 point of the spur eaten away, or destroyed by some insect. The figure 

 looks as if it had been drawn from a plant so uijured. 



It is by no means confined to damp spots, although sometimes found 

 on sedgy mounds rising out of a bog on a common. It most f]-equently 

 occm-s in just such places as does V. canina. On Roborough Down I 

 have seen it groAving abundantly in dry spots that had had the furze 

 burnt oflF them a year or two before. 

 Fu'st record : Jacob, 1836. 



