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the lowest petal. deep. yellow, at the base, with 5-7 purplish streaks, 
obovate and emarginate, not more sharply narrowed below than in the 
plant first. described ; the spur straight, purplish, and exceeding the 
calycine appendages... This. plant was peculiar in its habit of growth, 
and differed notably from the plant first described in the shape of its 
leaves and the size and colour of its petals. It was referred doubtfully. 
by Professor Boreau to 7. peregrina, Jordan, and seems to me to agree 
exceedingly well with the description from authenticated specimens in 
the ‘ Flore du Centre’; but after one year's cultivation from seed in rich 
garden soil, the leaves became broader and shorter, and the lower ones 
rounded below, as in the plant first described; the stem became less 
hairy and less diffuse, the petals larger and more or less tinged with 
purple, and the upper pair decidedly purplish throughout. 
An authenticated specimen, from Mr. E. Edwards, of V. Rothomagensis 
of T. F. Forster, in the ‘ Flora Tunbridgensis,’ does not differ notably 
from the plant. first described. The terminal lobe of the stipules. is 
elongated, more or less crenated, and conspicuously larger than the 
others, and the petals all more or less purplish and conspicuously 
longer than the sepals. The true plant of Rouen, it is perhaps hardly 
needful to say, is a very different plant, with a perennial root, much 
larger flowers, and stems and stipules as in V. lutea. 
The ordinary 7. arvensis of the cornfields of this neighbourhood has 
strong, erect or suberect stems, usually branched from the crown of the 
root. The stems and leaves are more or less thickly covered with grey- 
ish pubescence ; the lower leaves elliptic or ovate-obtuse, or somewhat 
cordate below, bluntly toothed, and with the haft usually narrowed into 
the petiole; the upper leaves narrowly lanceolate, the stipules lyrate- 
pinnatifid, with entire, linear, erecto-patent, lateral lobes, and the ter- 
minal lobe large and leaf-like and conspicuously toothed ; lower pedun- 
cles fully twice as long as the leaves; sepals narrowed more suddenly | 
towards the apex than in the plant first described ; petals about as 
long as, or somewhat shorter than the sepals, all yellow, or the upper 
ones slightly tinged with lilac, upper pair obovate-oblong, erecto-patent, 
slightly overlapping, middle pair somewhat narrower and paler and 
standing forward, the lowest petal cuneate-obovate, emarginate, deep 
yellow at the throat and marked with five dark lines; spur tinged with 
purple, thick, blunt, as long as or slightly shorter than the calycine. 
appendages. This was referred by Professor Boreau to V. contempta, 
