VIOLACE^. 25 



{H. canum, Dun. Reported in error from Penpole Poiut, 

 G. The plant was H. vulgare.) 



[H. ledifolmm, Willd. " Brean Down, Somerset," Hudson. 

 An error. It is generally supposed that Hudson mis- 

 took H. polifulium for it.) 



VIOLACE^. 

 VIOLA, Z. 



102. V. palustris, L. Marsh Violet. 

 Native. 



S. Recorded from '• Mendip Marsh, near the Minories," 

 from whence we have seen a specimen collected by Miss 

 M. W. Mayow. " Bog near the ' Castle of Comfort,' 

 Mendip," Herb. Dr. H. 0. Stephens. IV.— VI. 



103. V. Odorata, L. Sweet Violet. 



Native. Plentifully distributed throughout the district. 

 The type violacea is very much less frequent in the 

 vicinity of Bristol than the var. alba. This has been 

 accounted for by supposing that the blue violets have 

 nearly all been dug up and transplanted into gardens, 

 or hawked for sale in the streets, a fate which yearly 

 befalls thousands of our ferns and spring flowers, not 

 merely in this district, but in the neighbourhood of all 

 large towns. In tins genus the ordinary spring flowers do 

 not generally ripen seed ; later in the season minute 

 apetalous flowers, which never expand, and are self-ferti- 

 lized, develope seed in abundance. The leaves do not 

 attain their full development until the fruit ripens ; thus 

 specimens of this species and of V. hirta when in fruit 

 present an appearance very different from that of others 

 gathered when the spring flowers are expanded. Both 

 states should be represented in the herbarium. III. IV. 



