16 THALAMlFLOE^l. 



thickets. A low, much branched, spreading, shrub-like plant, 

 with a woody stem giving off many ascending flowering branches. 

 Leaves opposite, oblong, green on their upper, but hoary on their 

 under surfaces. Flowers terminal in a raceme of from 6 to 8, 

 bright yellow, with broadly-spreading petals. Kingskerswell. 

 Bradley Wood, near Newton, among rocks, Cistus Helianihe- 

 mum, Linn. (E. B. t. 1321.) P. vn.-ix. 



2. H. polifolium (white JR.) On rocky wastes in limestone 

 districts. Very rare and local. Somewhat like the last, but 

 smaller, less straggling and with smaller leaves, which are hoary 

 on both sides. Flowers large and white. Rocks about Daddy- 

 hole Plain, Torquay. Babbicombe Down, on the cliffs near the 

 sea. Cistus, Linn. (E. B. t. 1322.) P. vi.-vm. 



OED. IX. 



VIOLA. YIOLET. 



1. V. palustris (Marsh V.) In bogs and marshy places. 

 Stock sending out runners ; plant usually smooth, with heart- 

 shaped or kidney-shaped leaves, slightly puckered at the edges. 

 Flowers of a pale, delicate blue, streaked with purple, scentless. 

 Bovey Heath. Bogs about Dartmoor. (E. B. t. 444.) P. iv.-vi. 



2. V. hirta (hairy V.} In woods and pastures, chiefly in 

 limestone districts. Without creeping scions. Leaves heart- 

 shaped, on long stalks, both hairy. Flowers scentless, of a dull 

 blue colour. Hope's Nose. Chudleigh. (E. B. t. 894.) P. IV. v. 



3. V. odorata (sweet V.} On hedge-banks, in woods and 

 pastures. Stock sending off creeping runners. Leaves coming 

 in a bunch from the crown of the root, heart-shaped and stalked, 

 generally smooth, or slightly downy. Flower-stalks rather longer 

 than those of the leaves, flowers nodding, reddish-purple, or white, 

 very sweet-scented. Cockington lanes. Chelston. Ilsham. (E. 

 B. t. 619.) P. m. iv. 



4. V. canina (Gerard's, or Dog V.) On banks, in woods and 

 dry pastures. Radical leaves tufted, and flowering branches at 

 first short, but the lateral flowering branches become afterwards 

 much lengthened, rising up from a few inches to sometimes a foot 

 high. Leaves broadly heart-shaped, pointed at the ends ; stipules 

 on the flower-stalks narrow lance-shaped and pointed. Flowers 

 often very numerous and large in proportion to the size of the 

 plant, varying in colour from purple to blue, and frequently white, 

 always scentless. Common in fields, wood and pastures around 

 Torquay, etc. (E. B. t. 620, & E. B. S. t. 2736.) P. iv. v. 



