18 PROSERPINA. 



or Esau's in another kind. This violet is one of 

 the loveliest that grows. 



(5) Mirabilis. Stays so ; marvellous enough, truly : not 



more so than all violets ; but I am very glad to 

 hear of scientific people capable of admiring any- 

 - thing. 



(6) Montana. Stays so. 



(7) Odorata. Not distinctive; nearly classical, how- 



ever. It is to be our Viola Kegina, else I should 

 not have altered it. 



(8) Palustris. Stays so. 



(9) Tricolor. True, but intolerable. The flower is the 



queen of the true pansies : to be our Viola Psyche. 



(10) Elatior. Only a variety of our already accepted 



Cornuta, 



(11) The last is, I believe, also only a variety of Palus- 



tris. Its leaves, I am informed in the text, are 

 either " pubescent-reticulate- venose-subreniform," 

 or " lato-cordate-repando-crenate ;" and its stipules 

 are " ovate-acuminate-iim brio-denticulate." I do 

 not wish to pursue the inquiry farther. 



24. These ten species will include, noting here and 

 there a local variety, all the forms which are familiar to 

 us in Northern Europe, except only two ; these, as it 

 singularly chances, being the Viola Alpium, noblest of 

 all the wild pansies in the world, so far as I have seen or 

 heard of them, of which, consequently, I find no pic- 



