VIOLA. 



V. polychroma is only a Tyrolean form of V. tricolor. 



V . joimulaefolia makes tufts of foliage in the American woodlands 

 and far across Asia, but its pale violets, veined with darker tones, are 

 not nearly so large and worthy as those of V. Patrinii, its cousin 

 grrman. 



V. prionantha has its outstanding little long-heart -shaped leaves 

 very vigorously toothed, and forms dainty clumps from which stand 

 out pleasant small violets usually of fine purple. It is a plant of 

 Northern China and Japan. 



V. pseudo-gracilis is the version of V. gracilis that comes to us 

 from Southern Italy. It is a bright and beautiful free-growing blue- 

 purple Violet -pansy enough, in the kinship of V. cornuta, but not to 

 comparo with the blazing violet darkness and the freakish fairy faces 

 of I', gracilis. 



V. pubescens is a downy small species of the American woods, almost 

 exactly repeating V. bijlora in habits and requirements, but that its 

 little golden violets are veined with purple and often solitary on their 

 stem instead of being twins. 



V. pumila. See under V. canina. 



V. pyrolaefolia has its far home in Patagonia. It makes beautiful 

 neat tufted masses of egg-shaped and roughly-hairy toothed leaves, 

 and hurries precipitately into bloom with its big golden violets on 

 slender stems of 4 inches or so, well above the foliage, and pencilled on 

 the lower lip with delicate veins of dark red. It should have a choice 

 and well-guarded and half-shady place in cool and well-drained 

 vegetable soil with plenty of grit. 



V. Raffinesqui is an annual Pansy in the way of V. tricolor. 



V. Reichenbachiana. — This is the limestone development of the type- 

 species, V. silvestris, the common Dog Violet of the woods ; it often has 

 the lower petal purpler than the rest. 



V. Riviniana, on the other hand, is the non-calcareous development 

 of the same Wood Violet. 



V. rostrata fills the cool shady places of the woodland about Quebec. 

 The loaves are all rounded-heart-shaped, the upper ones rather more 

 pointed, and all of them quite smooth and a little inclined to be saw- 

 edged. The numerous long-spurred violets spring clear of the 6-inch 

 branches on their tall stems, and are lilac-blue with a deeper blotch 

 at the base. 



V. rothomagensis. — The Rouen Violet makes neat small tufts of 

 concise habit, from which the whole length of summer calls a suc- 

 cession of tidy little lilac pansies, the mass of the plant being some 

 8 inches high. 



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