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The seventh has a biennial root: the leaves are oblong, rough, 

 hairy, serrate, coming out without order from the root, narrowing 

 into a petiole. From the centre of these, the second season, arises a 

 stiff, hairy, furrowed stalk about two feet high, sending out several 

 lateral branches, with long, narrow, hairy, serrate, sessile leaves, 

 placed alternately: from the setting on of these leaves come out the 

 peduncles, those on the lower part of the stem and branches four or 

 five, inches long, diminishing gradually in length upwards, and thus 

 forming a sort of pyramid. The flowers are very large, and make a 

 fine appearance; they are smooth, and the segments turn back at 

 the end; they come out the beginning of June, and, if the season be 

 not very hot, continue a month in beauty. It grows naturally in 

 Germany, &c. 



There are varieties, with blue, purple, white, striped, and double 

 flowers. 



The eighth species is an annual plant, which rises with slender 

 stalks a foot high: the flowers are of a beautiful purple, inclining to a 

 violet colour, (sometimes pale purple or white,) and in the evening 

 fold up into a pentagon figure, whence it is sometimes called Viola 

 pentagonia : the calyx is composed of five narrow leaves, which 

 spread open, turn back, and are much longer than the petals; these 

 remain on the top of the prismatic seed-vessel, which is filled with 

 small angular seeds : the stem is tender, quadrangular, naturally 

 procumbent, branched from the bottom at very great angles: the 

 leaves sessile, obovate, and waved about the edge: the flowers axil- 

 lary, erect, on very long peduncles: the corolla wheel-shaped, and 

 so deeply five-cleft that the segments, which are ovate, scarcely 

 cohere. 



It is a native of the southern countries of Europe, flowering from 

 May to September. 



There are varieties, with bright blue flowers, with white flowers, 

 and with pale purple flowers. 



The ninth species has an annual root; the stem and germs 

 smooth; the leaves acuminate; the flowers three or more from each 



