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V. odorata, Linn. Stoeet Violet. 



Native : In woods and on banks in old lanes. Locally common. 



February to April. 

 Var. a. violacea. 

 I. Lane from Sutton to Middleton ; lanes about Sbeldon, Elmdon, 

 Stonebriclge, Knowle, Shirley Heath, Wishaw. 

 II. Rowington, Sherbourne, Holywell, near Claverdon, Corley, etc. 



Var. b. lilacea. More rare. 

 II. Leamington and Levenhall, Warwick, Herb., Perry; lane near 

 Rowington Church. 

 Var. c. alba. 



I. Plant's Brook, near Minworth. 



II. Saltisford, Warwick, Terry, F. C, p. 20; Barby Village, near 

 Rugby, R. S. R. ; lane near Rowington Church ; Holywell, near 

 Claverdon. 

 Probably native in some of the old lanes, but a mere escape in 

 many other localities. 

 V. hirta, Linn. Hairy Violet. 



Native : In woods and on banks, in marly and calcareous soils. 

 Local. April, May. 

 I. Sheldon, 1835, Rev. J. Gorle; near Anstey, Rev. A. Blox. (MS. 

 note in Purton's Flora.) I have never seen it there, or in any 

 district in the Tame Basin. 

 II. Bidford ! Birdingbury, Bree. May. Nat. Hist., iii., 163 ; Fosseway, 

 Y. and B. ; common at Harboro' Magna, Rev. A. B.; 

 Hnnington, Tredington, Newb. ; common about Chadshunt, 

 Bolton King. Hatton Rock, near Hampton Lucy ; lanes 

 between Warwick and Sherbourne, near Kineton ; abundant 

 in Chesterton Wood, Drayton Bushes, and lanes between 

 Exhall and Bidford. 

 Var. alba, Chadshunt, Bolton King. 



A form approaching V. permixta occurs in a spinney near Stratford- 

 on-Avon, in the Warwick Road. 

 V. hirta is not recorded from the county by either Purton or Perry, 



although abundaut in the districts worked by those botanists. 

 V. sylvatica, Fries. Wood Violet. 



Native : In woods, on banks and heathlauds. Common. April to 



July. 

 Var. a. Riviniana, Reich. Frequent throughout the county. 

 A variety with pure white flowers on Bentley Heath, 1873. A form 

 with large dark blue flowers and small leaves, probably 

 V. flavicornis, Forst., is occasional on sandy heath, Sutton 

 Park and Coleshill Heath. 

 Var. b. ReicJieribachiana. Borean. 



On banks and in woods, in marly and calcareous soils. Local. 

 April to June. 

 I. Abundant in lanes between Arley and Fillongley ; Soas wood, 

 Arbury ; lanes about Over Whitacre. 

 II. Lane about Rowington ; Lapworth Street, abundant; abundant in 

 coppice near Drayton Rough Moors ; Chesterton Wood ; lanes 

 about Exhall and Wixford; Corley Ash. 

 V- canina, Auct. Dog Violet. 



Native : On heaths and heathy footways. Local. April, May. 

 Var. b. flavicornis, Smith. 

 I. On heath land, Sutton Park, rather rare. Widely distributed over 

 Coleshill Heath. 



II. Milverton, 1'. and B. ; near Shipston-on-Stour, St. Dennis, Hon- 



ington. F. Townsend; Yarningale Common. 



