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ciliated at the margin towards the base. Petals obovate ; upper 

 pair crenate, but scarcely emarginate at the apex, overlapping at 

 the base ; lateral pair rather larger than the upper, with a hairy 

 line at the throat, like the broad lowest petal emarginate at the 

 apex ; spur much exceeding the calycine appendages, curved and 

 keeled, bluntish at the point. From hirta it differs mainly by 

 its creeping stolons, shorter leaves, and odorous flowers ; from 

 odorata, by its less creeping habit of growth, by its differently 

 shaped and differently toothed leaves, and more hairy leaves and 

 petioles, paler, bluer, and more faintly odorous flowers, and pe- 

 dicels at the flowering-time usually exceeding the petioles and 

 leaves. Probably our plant is identical with V. sepincola, Jord. 

 Fragm. vii. p. 8; Boreau, Fl. Cent. 3rd edit. p. 76; V. tolosana, 

 Timb. ; but I have no authenticated specimens from the Conti- 

 nent to which to make reference, and there are two or three 

 points of minor importance in which it does not precisely accord 

 with the descriptions. 



" Viola sabulosa, Boreau !, ' Notes et Observations sur quel- 

 ques Plantes de France,' p. 335. V. Curtisii, Mackay !, not 

 Forster. For a small supply of this Pansy from Hhe New 

 Brighton Sandhills,' we are this year indebted to Mr. W. Bean, 

 Juu. From the true V. Curtisii, of Forster, which it closely 

 resembles in its habits of growth, it differs by its purple petals, 

 more hairy stems and leaves, and by having the terminal lobe of 

 its stipules more decidedly larger than the others, and sometimes 

 toothed. These two {Curtisii and sabulosa) resemble each other 

 in their small flowers, and slender csespitose stems ; filiform,- and 

 much creeping below the surface of the ground. From Mallagh- 

 more, county Sligo, Mr. J. T. Syme sends another plant, with 

 much more robust stems, broader and more deeply crenated 

 leaves; petals full yellow and much longer than the sepals (as 

 large as in the ordinary mountain form of V. lutea) and stipules 

 still more like those of tricolor than is the case in sabulosa, the 

 terminal lobe much longer and broader than the others, some- 

 times almost leaf-like and deeply crenated.. So that we have in 

 fact iu Britain three different and probably distinct coast sand- 

 hill Pansies: — (1) F. Cwr^isM, in Devonshire and Anglesea ; (2) V. 

 sabulosa, in Cheshire and county Dublin; and (3) V. Symei, in 

 county Sligo. Upon the Continent, V. sabulosa has been met 

 with on the coast sandhills of Holland, Belgium, and the north- 

 west of France (Dunkirk and the estuary of the Somme). 



