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above, glaucous and covered beneath with shining sessile glands, the 
terminal segment about 3 inch broad and deep, cuneate or rounded or 
even cordate at the base, three-parted at the apex, and sometimes the 
partings again toothed. Main petiole rounded, and marked with three 
striations on the back, channelled above, both the main and secondary 
petioles spreading from the axis at right angles. Panicle very diffuse, 
half the whole length of the stem or nearly so, the general outline , 
broadly triangular, the lowest branch only furnished with a leafy bract 
about half its length; the branches patent or erecto-patent, arcuate, 
only 9 to 12 distant flowers upon the main branches. Anthers apicu- 
late, 1 line long, pendent ; the pedicel 2 lines long. Sepals narrowly 
ovate, 2 lines long. Carpels 2 lines long without the style, narrowly 
ovate, rather gibbous, irregularly 10-nerved, some of the nerves faint, 
and others deeper. From the ordinary north of England riverside 
form of the plant this differs principally by its hollow stem, smaller 
glandular glaucous leaflets, and few-flowered leafy panicle. 
Viola permixta, Jordan. M. Jordan identifies the Viola gathered by 
Mr. Briggs, near Plymouth, and described in our report of last year as 
intermediate between hirta and odorata, with his own V. permixta 
(fasc. 7, p. 6, Boreau Fl. du Centre, 3rd edit. vol. ii. p. 74). He 
sends examples of this gathered in the neighbourhood of Lyons, and 
the comparison of our plant with these and an authentieated specimen 
sent by Professor Van Heurck, from Antwerp, leaves little room to 
doubt their substantial identity, though there are one or two trifling 
points of discrepancy in the published descriptions. Mr. Briggs took 
the trouble to send in spring several living examples of the Devonshire 
plant, and we give now a more complete description of it, side by side 
with one of the ordinary V. odorata. 
FV. permixta. 
Rootstock woody, scaly, wide-creep- 
ing, sending out stolons, which bear 
tufts of sites " flowers, and occa- 
sionally ta take 
Petioles mies throughout with 
short stiff deflexed hairs at the flower- 
der some of them 4 or 5 inches 
long, w is longer than the pe- 
duneles. 
Leaves hairy all over on both sides, 
V. odorata. 
Rootstock woody, scaly, wide- 
ereeping, sending out long-rooting 
yo which bear tufts of leaves and 
Pae oe inches long at the 
flowering time, some rathi densely 
hairy with deffexed hairs, some nearly 
hairless, or the hairs so short as to be =. 
quite inconspicuous. 
Leaves rather less hairy on both 
