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VIOLAJlIEuE. (violet FAMILY.) 



1 1 Flowers .01 hroad. Capsules .003 long ; seeds 6, somewhat netted. 



5, F, glntmo§a, L. 5 -15 to .25, minutely glandular -puberu- 

 lent, viscid. Leaves nearly all opposite, needle-like, with revolute 

 margins, tke floral much shorter. Pedicels thread-like ; nearly twice 

 as long as calyx, spreading. Style straight, oblique — April to June 

 — Dry hillsides and rocks ; throughout. 



Var. Tiridis, Boiss. 

 Beirut. Cassius. 



Leaves longer, looser, glabrescent — Moab. 



Order X. VIOL.ARIEJE. (Violet Family). 



Herbs^ with 5 persistent sepals, an irregular spurred 

 corolla of 5 petals, 5 hypogynoios stamens, with adnate^ 

 introrse am^thers, connivent in a ring over the pistil, and a 

 1-celled, Z-valved pod, with ?,-parietal placentm. Seeds al- 

 l)U7ninous j enibryo straight — Leaves alternate, stipuled. 



Fig. 64. 



(a) Flower of a species of Violet, (i, b, b, b, b,) The five nearly regular sepals, (c, c, e, e, e,) 

 The five irregular petals, the lowermost vs'ith a short spur, (rf) Capsule opened, showing the 

 seeds on the parietal placentae. 



VIOIiA, L. Violet. Heart's-Ease. Benefsej. 



Sepals nearly equal. Lower petal spurred. Filaments dilated, 

 often projecting beyond anthers. Valves of capsule contracting elaa- 

 tically when open, and dispersing the seeds. 



* Perennials. Stigma capitate, glabrous. 



t Stems not hranched. 



1. V. Ltibanotica, Boiss. If .05 to .1. Hoot thick woody ; 

 stems numerous tufted, woody. Leaves rhomboid or o^ate, with cuneate 

 or cordate base, .015 to .03 long, coarse toothed; stipules oblong-lanceo- 

 late, short-fringed. Flowers .01 broad ; sepals oblong, rather acute ; 

 capsule globular, woolly — Summer — Subalpine and alpine Lebanon. 



