from near Narbonne was also gathered in April, while I found this plant 
in full blow at St. Cyr in October, and MM. Grenier et Godron state that 
September is the usual flowering season for this species. It is true, how- 
ever, that M. Boissier found plants near Gibraltar which in April exhi- 
bited only the fertile minute flowers, similar to those produced in autumn 
by our common sweet and dog violets, so that these individuals may per- 
haps have had full-sized flowers in the preceding autumn. I should like 
to know whether V. arborescens, L., habitually produces flowers of full size 
twice in the year and also the minute fertile flowers. 
It would appear that the present plate is the first illustration yet pub- 
lished of this remarkable plant, with the exception of the quaint figure 
given in Jacques Barrelier’s [cones plantarum per Galliam et Italiam Obs., 
edited by Antoine de Jussieu in 1714. 
EXPLANATION OF PLate LXXVI.—Fig. 1, calyx and part of peduncle, 
magnified. Fig. 2, one of the two lowest (anterior) stamens, magnified. 
Fig. 3, ovary, style, and stigma, magnified. Fig. 4, ripe capsule, of the 
natural size. Fig. 5, a leaf of the natural size. Fig. 6, stipules and 
lower part of the leaf, magnified. 
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