VIOLA. 



V. dichroa should be a dear little thing, forming very neat round 

 tufts in the alps of Turkish Armenia, from which it sends up quantities 

 of tiny, round-faced, yellow- and pale-blue pansios, in the way of V. 

 calcarata but about a quarter of the size. 



V. dissecta is a Siberian Violet, coming in between V. pinnata and 

 V. pedata, with rather tho size and form of the latter ; a thing, 

 therefore, of choice, for a select place in the cool and stony moraine. 



V. Dubyana (V. heterophylla) stands near V. valderia in the group of 

 V. cenisia. It is a most distinct and beautiful species, rarely to be seen 

 here and there in the open stony patches of soil, rubbly track-sides, 

 or fine sunny limestone screes high up in the Alps of Lombardy. It 

 has lovely staring starry purple pansies, longer and thinner and more 

 violet-like than those of V. cenisia, and much more resembling 

 those of V. valderia, to which the plant is closer, too, in its longer 

 stems and radiating habit from a single fine white tap-root, never 

 running out into wide or ramifying clumps. It is an easy-going 

 moraine treasure, of far better constitution, however ; fine and frail in 

 the silky-greyish leafage, with outstanding blossoms all the summer 

 through. It should always be kept going from seed, and never 

 trusted to abide too long in one stay. 



V. elatior is a form of V. canina, q.v. 



V. elegans comes close under V. lutea. It is a blue-and-yellow 

 mountain Pansy from Switzerland. 



V. elongata is also V. Eugeniae, a larger form of V. calcarata. 



V. epipsila is no more than an improved V. paluslris. 



V. erectifolia (V. gomphopetala, Gray) makes a neat tuft from a 

 single tap-root, with erect-standing, elliptic-narrow leaves of 3 or 4 

 inches long, on stems of about the same length. The flowers are 

 large golden violets, veined with darkness, and this beauty shines in 

 the high Alps of Colorado. 



V. Eugeniae. See under V. elongata. 



V. Falconeri is a Himalayan version of the Dog-violet, with leaves 

 dotted with black glands, and bigger, finer flowers than V. canina' 's. 



V. filifolia lives in Now Zealand, and may easily be allowed to 

 stop there. 



V. jlavo-virens=T. linguaefolia, q.v. 



V. fiorariensis. See the note on V. cornuta. 



V. fragrans, on the contrary, should be eagerly pursued into the 

 high screes of Crete, where it makes velvet-grey clumps of very narrow- 

 oblong blunt little toothless loaves, and sends up very large sweet- 

 scented pansies of pale violet and yellow. 



V. glabella should be a big yellow violet of 8 inches from Colorado. 



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