58 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



70. CAMPANULA. 



1. C. rotundifolia, radical leaves heart or kidney shaped, cre- 

 mate ; stem-leaves linear, entire ; flowers blue, sometimes white, 

 drooping. Blue Bells. 



Hab. Dry banks and heaths. July, Aug. 7/ 



71. VIOLA. 



1. V. hirta, stem none ; leaves heart-shaped, rough with hairs 

 as well as their foot-stalks ; calyx-leaves obtuse ; lateral petals 

 with a hairy central line. Hairy Violet. 



Hab. Grassy banks. New-mill banks, Thomp. Ravine 

 above Burnmouth. April. I/. 



% V. palustris, root creeping; stem none; leaves kidney- 

 shaped, smooth ; lateral petals with a hairy central line ; flowers 

 very pale, with a very short spur. Marsh Violet. 



Hab. Mossy bogs. Near Murton Craigs, Thomp. Below 

 Shoreswood Hall, Dr Thompson, Allerton Mill-dean. 

 May, June. I/. 



3. V. canina, stem at length ascending, channelled; leaves 

 oblong-heart-shaped ; stipulas serrated ; bracteas awl-shaped, en- 

 tire ; calyx acute. Dog's Violet. 



Hab. Woods and by hedges common. April, May. 7/ 



4. V. tricolor, stem angular, diffuse, divided ; leaves oblong, 

 deeply crenate; stipulas lyrate, pirmatifid; bracteas obsolete. 

 Pansy Violet. 



Hab. Hedges and cultivated fields. The V. arvensis oi 

 some botanists, now generally considered a variety of 

 the tricolor, is common in gravelly corn fields. May 

 Sept. 



This well-known flower has many synonyms in the English 

 language, such as Hearts-ease, from its being imagined to 

 possess the medicinal virtue of raising the spirits and 

 comforting the heart ; Pansy, from being, in the symboli- 

 cal representation of flowers, expressive of the thoughts, 

 " There 's Pansies, that 's for thoughts," says poor 

 Ophelia: Love-in-idleness y a very poetic account of the 



