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34. The English varieties seem often to be yellow in 

 the lower petals, (see Sowerby's plate, 1287 of the old 

 edition) , crossed, I imagine, with Yiola Aurea, (but see 

 under Yiola Eupestris, No. 12) ; the names, also, vary- 

 ing between tricolor and bicolor with no note any- 

 where of the three colours, or two colours, intended ! 



The old English names are many. ' Love in idleness,' 

 making Lysander, as Titania, much wandering in mind, 

 and for a time mere c Kits run the street ' (or run the 

 wood?) "Call me to you" (Gerarde, ch. 299, Sowerby, 

 No. 178), with 4 Herb Trinity,' from its three colours, 

 blue, purple, and gold, variously blended in different 

 countries $ ' Three faces under a hood ' describes the 

 English variety only. Said to be the ancestress of all 

 the florists' pansies, but this I much doubt, the next 

 following species being far nearer the forms most chiefly 

 sought for. 



35. III. YIOLA ALPIXA. ' Freneli's Pansy ' my own 

 name for it, from GotthelPs Freneli, in 'Ulric the 

 Farmer'; the entirely pure and noble type of the Ber- 

 nese maid, wife, and mother. 



The pansy of the Wengern Alp in specialty, and of 

 the higher, but still rich, Alpine pastures. Full dark- 

 purple ; at least arf inch across the expanded petals ; I 

 believe, the 'Mater Yiolarum' of Gerarde; and true 

 black violet of Yirgil, remaining in Italian ' Yiola Mam- 

 mola ' (Gerarde, ch. 298)." 



36. IY. YIOLA AUEEA. Golden Yiolet. Biflora usu- 



