THE HEART'S-EASE, 

 OR PANSY. 



Viola tricolor. Nat. Ord., Violaeece. 



| HE hearts-ease, or pansy, belongs 

 to the same genus as the sweet 

 violet, a plant we have already 

 figured. The present plant is the 

 Viola tricolor, the sweet violet the 

 Viola odorata. We have, in addi- 

 tion to these two, some half- 

 dozen or so of other species of 

 violet. It is a genus of which 

 the several species are subject to 

 a very considerable amount of 

 variation, more or less marked, 

 in the various parts, and that has, 

 therefore, been the cause of a good 

 deal of difference of opinion, some 

 observers admitting to full specific 

 rank forms that others can only 



acknowledge as more or less prominent variations from 

 the true type forms. 



The present plant, the hearths-ease, is as variable as 



any of the other members of the genus; but whatever 



modifications of form it may present, it may always 



be readily distinguished from the other violets by the 



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