i^ The Natural Hijlory 



3. Viola Mania hirfuta major inodora. which large Violet from 

 a fibrous rootfendeth forth many leaves, each upon his own 

 foot-ftalk, neither creeping as the common March, nor branch- 

 ed as the common Dog-violet ; its leaves and (talks are all hairy 

 efpecially on the back-fide ; they are alfo broader, larger, and 

 more pointed than the ordinary March Violets, which occafioned 

 (as fome think) the ingenious Dr. Mtrret to note it by the name 

 of Viola Trachelii folio s , but that certainly muft be fome diffe- 

 rent kind, the leaves of ours being all invecked, as in Tab.^.Fig.i. 

 whereas the Trachelia are all indented : Amongft the leaves grow 

 hrgeflowers, upon foot-ftalks (as other Violets') of a pale blue 

 colour, with white lines or rays ifluing from the middle of them, 

 but wholly withoutyiW. They flower in March and April, and 

 are commonly but abufively fold to the flops amongft other Vio- 

 lets, they not being fo good for any of thofe ufes the Apotheca- 

 ries put them to, as other Violets are. They grow plentifully in 

 Magdalen College Cops, on Shotover hill, Stow-wood, and many 

 other places. 



. 4. Viola paluftris rotundifolia. From the root of this Plant, 

 which is white, and at equal diftances knotted (whence only it 

 fends forth its fibers not downward, but horizontally) arife 3 or 

 4 (fomtimes more) feeble fmall ftalks, each bearing at its top 

 only a round leaf, as in Tab. 9. Fig. 2. Among which, about 

 April come up the slalks of the flowers, flender,like thofe of the 

 leaves ; the whole Plant being weak, and beholding to the neigh- 

 boring ones for its fupport. The flowers are all fmall and blue, 

 which being paft, a long Prifmatical feed-vefel fucceeds, open- 

 ing its felf when ripe into three parts, and (hewing a rank of 

 brown feeds, appended to each angle by white Nerves: This is 

 eafily diftinguiiVd from all other Violets by its native place, 

 wherein it is fuppofed they will not grow ; and by the fmalnefs 

 of its flowers, which are confiderably lefs than any of the reft ; 

 whereunto add the remarkable roundnefs of its leaves, which are 

 fo far from drawing to points, that the longeft way of them is 

 from fide to fide. Clufiu* indeed feems to defcribe a Plant like 

 this, by the name of Viola Alpina altera \ but makes its flower 

 as much greater, as burs is lefs than the common one; adding 

 befide, that it flowers about the latter end of June, a month be- 



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