^8 FLORA OF NOVA SCOTIA — LAWSON. 



'Seotia is entered as " introduced 1802, ])y H. R. H. the Duke of 

 Kent." It is still very abundant in the woods .surrounding the 

 Duke's former residence, " The Prince's Lodce," on the western 

 •side of Bedford Basin, near Halifax. 



This species was figured in Willdenow's Hortus Berolinensis 

 (figures of plants that had flowered in the Berlin Botanic Garden), 

 in 1804, two j^ears after it was sent to Kew by the Duke of 

 Kent, (Hort. Berol. fasc. II., t. 24). In noticing this work in 

 Annals of Botany, Vol. I., p. 568, the editors, Konig and Sims, 

 speak of the figure of the violet as that of " a nondescript elegant 

 species, with white flowers, from North America," adding the 

 remark : " We recollect to have seen it under the name of F. 

 IJallens in the garden of Mr. Forster, of Hackney (London), who 

 has cultivated and studied a great number of species of this 

 interesting genus." This latter remark serves, to explain the 

 synonym and reference in Roemer and Schultes' " Systema," 

 Vol. v., p. 359, viz., " Viola 2^cillens, Forster in Hackney," which 

 has not been repeated by subsequent writers. 



Viola primul^folia, Linn. The Primrose-leaved Violet. 

 A small patch of this rare species was found at edge of a swamp 

 near the Three Mile Church, Halifax, (Fairview), during an 

 excursion Ij}'' the Botanical Class of Dalhousie College. This 

 species presents characters intermediate in some respects between 

 V. hlanda and V. lanceolata. It was raised artificially from 

 seed obtained from the Fairview station, and cultivated in the 

 garden for several years ; and, although less robust than either 

 of its congeners, it did not show any tendency to revert or lose 

 its distinctive characters. The specific name was originally 

 spelt, in the Species Plantarum, 'priniuli folia, and was so con- 

 tinued by succeeding writers until corrected l)}^ DeCondolle, in 

 Prodromus, 1844. 



Viola lanceolata, Linn. Not rare about Halifax, as mar- 

 gins of Steele's Pond and around other pools in Point Pleasant 

 Park, Dutch Village, Dartmouth Lakes, etc. Alumdant and very 

 fine on the black mud flats at Lil}^ Lake, between Bedford and 

 Rocky Lake. More sparingly in drier situations. Annapolis, 



