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of spring to it, in English mountain ground, than to the 

 Regina. 



XI. YIOLA COBXUTA. Cow Yiolet. Enough described 

 already. 



XII. YIOLA KUPESTRIS. Crag Yiolet. On the high 

 limestone moors of Yorkshire, perhaps only an English 

 form of Yiola Aurea, but so much larger, and so differ- 

 ent in habit growing on dry breezy downs, instead of 

 in dripping caves that I allow it, for the present, sep- 

 arate name and number.* 



42. { For the present,' I say all this work in * Proser- 

 pina' being merely tentative, much to be modified by 

 future students, and therefore quite different from that 

 of * Deucalion,' which is authoritative as far as it reaches, 

 and will stand out like a quartz dyke, as the sandy specu- 

 lations of modern gossiping geologists get washed away. 



But in the meantime, I must again solemnly warn my 

 girl-readers against all study of floral genesis and diges- 

 tion. How far flowers invite, or require, flies to inter- 

 fere in their family affairs which of them are carnivo- 

 rous and what forms of pestilence or infection are most 

 favourable to some vegetable and animal growths, let 

 them leave the people to settle who like, as Toinette says 



* It is, I believe, Sowerby's Viola Lutea, 721 of the old edition, thero 

 painted with purple upper petals; but he says in the text, "Petals 

 either all yellow, or the two uppermost are of a blue purple, the rest 

 yellow with a blue tinge : very often the whole are purple." 



