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all of them having shallow bluntish crenations. The lateral lobes of 
the stipules are linear-lanceolate, entire, straight or slightly sickle-shaped, 
the terminal Jobe lanceolate, elongated, and somewhat leaf-like, usually 
with but faint crenations. The peduncles are slender, and conspicuously 
exceed the leaves, the lower ones being sometimes three or four inches 
in length. The sepals are lanceolate acuminate. The petals conspicu- 
ously exceed the sepals, the upper pair being in shape obovate, in colour 
a rich deep bluish-purplish, conspicuously overlapping in the fully ex- 
panded flower, the middle pair paler and narrower, the lowest petal 
broadly obovate, about half an inch wide at the broadest portion, and 
half an inch deep from the margin to the throat; in colour yellowish or 
whitish, more or less tinged with purple, the throat bright yellow, with 
seven dark-purplish lines radiating from it. The spur is compressed, 
purplish and blunt, and exceeds more or less notably the calycine ap- 
pendages. This is the ordinary form of the plant in the cornfields 
of North Yorkshire, a plant which was labelled for me by Professor 
Boreau “ Accedit ad P. Lloydii, Jordan.” Upon comparing with the 
authenticated V. Lloydii, as described in the third edition of the 
‘Flore du Centre,’ vol. ii. p. 81, the only points in which our plant does 
not quite coincide are in the corolla, which is stated to be “moyenne, 
dépassant peu le calice," and the spur, which is stated to be shorter 
than the calycine appendages. In our plant, the spur exceeds the 
appendages, and the ‘dépassant,” I should say, might be safely 
used without the “peu” in comparing the petals with the sepals. In 
the common fallow-field form of the plant, which often flowers quite 
early in spring, the stems are stronger, and usually diffuse or subpro- 
cumbent, the upper leavés broader, the terminal lobe of the stipules 
more leaf-like and more conspicuously toothed, and the petals mre 
colour than in the summer or autumn-flowering erect state. 
[have cultivated two of the forms intermediate between this plant 
and F. arvensis, which this neighbourhood furnishes, in both eases with 
the result of satisfying myself that they could not safely be separated 
as species from the plant just described. 
The first was a plant of slender habit of growth, with the stem 
branched from the base. The lower leaves were rounded, but not fully 
heart-shaped below, sparingly and bluntly crenate, the upper leaves 
lanceolate, and narrowed gradually into the petiole. The lobes of the 
Iyrate-pinnatifid stipules were all entire, the lateral ones acuminate; the = 
