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flowering, as in V. Riviniana, in which plant, when the fruit is 

 ripe, they are extremely conspicuous. The leaves also are rather 

 narrower, and the time of flowering is somewhat earlier. 



V. arenaria, D. C, which closely resembles V. Riviniana, but 

 has a densely pubescent capsule, is reported to have been found 

 in Teesdale by Mr. Backhouse ; but I have seen no specimens, so 

 that for the present, at all events, it appears better to leave it 

 unfig'ured. 



'ReichenhaclC s Dog Violet. 



SPECIES v.— VIOLA CAN IN A. Bah. 



Plates CLXXV. CLXXVI. 



V. pumila, " YilW Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. eil. viii. p. 48. 



Rootstock slender, somewhat woody, slightly creeping, branched, 

 each division terminating in an elongated decumbent-ascending 

 stem, from the axils of the leaves of wliich peduncles are produced. 

 Leaves stalked, triangular-ovate with a cordate base, or lanceolate 

 with a rounded or somewhat wedge-shaped base, bluntly crenate- 

 serrate. Stipules small, sub-membranous or lierbaceous, linear- 

 triangular or elliptical-lanceolate, more or less laciniate at the 

 edges. Spur of tlie lower petal scarcely two or three times the 

 length of the appendages of the sepals. Anther spurs equal to or 

 scarcely exceeding the anther, together with its apical scale. Style 

 thickened towards the apex and curved. Capsule shortly-ovoid or 

 roundish, obtuse, bluntly 3-sided. 



Sub-Species I.— Viola flavicornis. Sm. 



Plate CLXXV. 



V. canina, "Linn:' Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, el Helv. Vol. III. Viol. Tab. X. Fig. 4501. 



V. canina, Auct. Plur. 



V. cauina o, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 38. 



Leaves ovate or triangular-ovate, cordate at the base ; stipules 

 linear-triangular, with a few small laciuese. Petals oval-oblong, 

 obtuse at the apex, purplish blue (or white). Spur of the lower 

 petal about three times the length of the appendages of the calyx. 

 Capsule ovoid. 



On heaths, commons and sandy seashores. Rather rare, but 

 pretty generally distributed as far north as Aberdeenshire and 

 Forfarshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer 

 (apetalous flowers later). 



