12 FLOWERS OF THE HILLS AND DRY PLACES 



no erect stem, the leaves arising from the rootstock directly. The 

 leaves are likewise heart-shaped, but in this case the stoles or trailing 

 stems with buds are absent or very short, and the bracts are below 

 the middle of the flower- stalk. Moreover, the whole plant is 

 hairy, or roughly hairy, giving it a greyer, less green, appearance 

 when dry. 



The flowers are not fragrant and less dark blue than those of the 



HAIRY VIOLET (Viola /n'r/a, L.) 



Sweet Violet, but the spur is long and hooked, and the anther spurs 

 are linear. The plant flowers later than the Sweet Violet. The 

 capsules are pendent in this as well as in the latter, and in each 

 the spring flowers do not produce seeds, while the later cleistogamic 

 flowers without petals do. The flowers vary in number of spurs, some 

 having sack-like ends to the petals or rudimentary spurs. 



The Hairy Violet is not more than 6 in. high. The flowers may be 

 found from April to May or June. The plant is perennial, increased 

 by division of the root. 



The flower is pollinated in the same way as Viola odorata (which 

 see). Both are conspicuous flowers, and have two types of flower, 



