14 . ON SOME OF THE BRITISH PANSIES, 
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terminal larger and subspathulate. The peduncles were about twice sili 
long as the leaves, and the sepals slightly shorter than the petals. The | 
petals were much smaller than in the plant already described, all yellow; | 5 
and only the upper pair with a faint purplish tinge, the upper pair ob- . 
ovate and just overlapping at the base in the fully expanded flower, the — : 
middle pair narrower, deeper-coloured at the base, and standing forward — 
from the upper pair in the fully expanded flower, the lowest petal | 
broadly obovate and emarginate, deep yellow at the throat, and marked — 
with seven dark lines, sharply narrowed from the broadest part to the — 
base after a wedge-shaped manner, the spur slender, purplish, incurved, 
and rather longer than the calycine appendages. This plant, in the 
shape of its petals and the size of its flowers, occupies an intermediate — 
position between our ordinary cornfield arvensis and the plant already: : 
described. In the standing forward of the middle pair of petals, it re- — 
sembled the former, and its petals being larger than in arvensis, this = 
character was shown even more conspicuously. But the shape of the 
lowest petal was peculiar, and in the entire terminal lobe of the stipule - 
it receded from arvensis conspicuously. But after one year’s cultivation’ 
from seed in rich garden soil, it beeame much more robust in habit, | 
. with all the leaves broader, and the lower ones cordate at the base, the' | 
terminal lobe of the stipules became more leaf-like, and sometimes . 
slightly toothed, the sepals and petals both more luxuriant, and though 4 
in some of the plants the petals were still all yellowish, in others thè 
upper pair took a distinctly marked purplish hue, whilst the middle 
pair lost their peculiar habit, and the lowest petal its peculiar me 
obovate aspect. 
The second was a much branched plant, of exceedingly diffuse habit, | 
likethe other, oc in a cornfield in autumn. The stems and leaves 
were both more hairy than in the plant first described, the lowest leaves’ - 
ovate, and upper lanceolate and narrowed gradually below. The sti - 
pules were narrow, with all the lobes entire, the lower erecto-patent; — 
the terminal lobe elongated, and much larger than any of the others. - 
The peduncles were erecto-patent, often not much longer than the long 
linear-lanceolate upper leaves, and the sepals slightly shorter than the à 
petals. The petals were somewhat larger than in the plant last de- — 
scribed ; yellowish, or the upper pair slightly tinged with purple; the . 
upper pair broadly obovate, and overlapping for three-quarters of their — 
length, the lateral pair almost as large and as broad as the upper pair, - 
