12 ON SOME OF THE BRITISH PANSIES. 
suring three-eighths of an inch in width, and more than half an inch — 
in depth from the apex to the throat; the middle pair are somewhat — 
narrower and paler, and are marked with dark lines at the base; the 
lowest one considerably broader than the distance from the throat: to 
its outer edge, bright yellow within, dark-coloured lines radiating to 
its outer half; and the spur is blunt, and violet-coloured, and longer 
than the calycine appendages. This was submitted to Boreau, and 
marked by him, “ Videtur V. lepida, Jordan." This is a plant de- 
scribed iu Jordan's * Pugillus,’ page 28, and given there, with a mark 
of doubt, as a plant of Belgium. Has any wild station since been 
ascertained for it? My plant agrees very well with the description, 
unless it be in the spur, which is stated to be ** eximie patenti-deflexo.” 
I wish any one who may have the opportunity would search out this 
plant and investigate it further. I brought home seeds and sowed 
them, but they did not come up the next spring, probably because they 
were not ripe enough. The plant grows upon the north side of the — : 
stream, just above the bridge nearest the Spital of Glen Shee, and con- 
sequently within a short distance of the inn, which is a resting-place 1 
r the coaches between Blairgowrie and the Castletown of Braemar. 
This plant evidently occupies, like 7. sabulosa and V. Curtisii, an in- 
termediate position between lutea and tricolor; and, as I have indi- - 
cated already, it isa montane, not an agrestal plant. Jordan com- 
pares it to V. vivariensis, which is also a montane plant, between X. tri- 
color and V. lutea. 
We haye in North Yorkshire a montane Pansy, which, at first sight, 
seems to differ notably from V. lutea, but which I believe to be con- 
nected with it by intermediate stages of gradation. It has small yellow 
flowers, petals standing forward as in the cornfield J. arvensis, stipules 
with sickle-shaped lateral and crenate leaf-like terminal lobes. This 
grows upon the Richmond race-course, and, with Thlaspi occitanum, at 
the lead-mines of Copperthwaite Moor, near Reeth. I got seeds at 3 
the latter station in autumn, and hope to cultivate it. 
The common large-petalled cornfield Pansy of North Yorkshire is a 
plaut of annual duration, which is usually more or less branched at the 
crown of the root, and has slender, somewhat erecto-patent stems, of 
about a foot in height. ‘The lower leaves are almost as broad as long, — 
and broadly ovate or even cordate in shape; the higher ones passing, — 
as we ascend the stem, from typically ovate to typically lanceolate; and a 
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