32 PROSERPINA. 



I found afterwards a much larger yellow pansy on the 

 Yorkshire high limestones ; with vigorously black crow- 

 foot marking on the lateral petals. 



37. Y. YIOLA MONTANA. Mountain Yiolet. 



Flora Danica, 1329. Linnaeus, No. 13, " Caulibus 

 erectis, foliis cordato-lanceolatis, floribus serioribus apeta- 

 lis," i.e. 9 on erect stems, with leaves long heart-shape, 

 and its later flowers without petals not a word said of 

 its earlier flowers which have got those unimportant ap- 

 pendages ! In the plate of the Flora it is a very perfect 

 transitional form between violet and pansy, with beauti- 

 fully firm and well-curved leaves, but the colour of blos- 

 som very pale. " In subalpinis Norvegiae passim," all 

 that we are told of it, means I suppose, in the lower 

 Alpine pastures of Norway ; in the Flora Suecica, p. 

 306, habitat in Lapponica, juxta Alpes. 



38. YI. YIOLA MIRABILIS. Flora Danica, 1045. A 

 small and exquisitely formed flower in the balanced 

 cinquefoil intermediate between violet and pansy, but 

 with large and superbly curved and pointed leaves. It 

 is a mountain violet, but belonging rather to the moun- 

 tain woods than meadows. "In sylvaticis in Toten, 

 Norvegiae." 



London, 3056, " Broad-leaved : Germany." 

 Linnaeus, Flora Suecica, 789, says that the flowers of 

 it which have perfect corolla and full scent often bear 

 no seed, but that the later 'cauline' blossoms, without 

 petals, are fertile. " Caulini vero apetali fertiles sunt, 

 et seriores. Habitat passim Upsaliae." 



