I860.] THE VIOLA OF THE COAST SANDHILLS. 301 



siderably, attacking both the stem and leaves. It appears'Jn^^^the 

 form of red or orange-coloured_ spots, which consist^ wholly'^of 

 spores. 



Mosshurnford, Aug. 9, 1860. 



EEMAEKS ON THE VIOL.E OE THE COAST SANDHILLS. 

 By A. G. More, F.L.S. 



{See p. 122, mirrent Vol., 1860.) 



Unless I am much mistaken, Mr. J. G. Baker seems to have 

 included two different plants under the name of V. sabulosa of 

 Boreau. 



After examining several specimens, for which I am indebted 

 to the kindness of Mr. Syme, together with others which I have 

 myself gathered upon three different tracts of sandhills or 

 "dunes," I cannot avoid the conclusion that the Pansy from 

 New Brighton is identical with the true V. Curtisii of Forster, 

 differing so little as it does from that plant as found in Anglesea 

 and North Devon. I have further learned from Mr. Baker that 

 it is the New Brighton Pansy which Mr. Jordan identifies with 

 Boreau's V. sabulosa, so that the latter name would appear to 

 be simply a synonym for the V. Curtisii of Forster. 



I may here remark that the name "sabulosa" has been ap- 

 plied to quite another plant by Reichenbach, who, in his ' Flora 

 Excursoria^ (1832), mentions under Viola canina (of Linnseus 

 and Fries) a var. /3 sabulosa, often found upon the coast sand- 

 hills, and which I have reason to believe occurs at Hay ling 

 Island, in Hampshire. 



But the Portmarnock Viola (miscalled V. Curtisii by Mac- 

 kay) is very different, and I am inclined to think V. Symei only 

 a still more luxuriant state of the same plant : both of the Irish 

 Violets (from counties Dublin and Sligo) appearing, in my humble 

 judgment, mere varieties of Viola tricolor. Perhaps the name 

 " arenicola " might be advantageously given to the Portmarnock 

 Pansy, if it be thought a sufficiently marked variety ; at any 

 rate it seems not entitled to be called either V. Curtisii or V. 

 sabulosa. 



To add a few further notes upon the three plants, Viola tri- 

 color, var. arenicola (from Portmarnock), has a root evidently 



