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5. V. puxnila (Dillenius's Violet.) Boggy heaths, and in 

 sandy places. Plant more upright than in the other species. 

 Leaves longer and much narrower. Flowers either pale blue or 

 yellowish. Buckland. Bovey Heath. V. Lactea, Sm. (E. B. t. 

 445.) P. IY. v. 



6. V. tricolor (Pansy, or Hearts-ease.) On banks, hilly 

 pastures and cultivated fields. A strong branching plant, with 

 stalked leaves either oval or heart- shaped, but always obtuse ; 

 stipules broad and divided into several segments. This plant is 

 however extremely variable in all its parts. Flowers sometimes 

 purple, or yellow, or cream-coloured, sometimes variegated with 

 all three colours. Common on the hilly ground around Torquay, 

 as is also the variety /3 of Hooker and Arnott. (E. B. 1. 1287.) A. 



ORD. X. DEOSERACE^:. 

 DROSERA. SUNDEW. 



1. D. rotundifolia (round-leaved Sundew.) In bogs and 

 moist heaths, plentiful. Leaves all radical, on long stalks, round, 

 and covered on the upper surface with red sticky hairs, each 

 having a little gland on the top. Flower-stalks slender, rising 

 from amidst the tuft of leaves, and bearing either one or two 

 clusters of pretty little white flowers. Leaves of this, as of all the 

 species of Sundews, more or less covered with small insects, which 

 are entrapped by the viscid juice secreted by the glands of the 

 hairs. Forde bog, near Newton. Bovey Heath. A boggy patch 

 of turf near the road at Spitchwick. Boggy grounds about Ivy- 

 bridge and Chagford. (E. B. t. 867.) P. vn. vm. 



2. X>. longi folia (spathulate-leaved S.) In similar situa- 

 tions to the last, from which it is distinguished by its leaves being 

 upright, much longer than they are broad, and being tapered 

 into the leafstalk. Bovey Heath. (E. B. t, 868.) D. intermedia, 

 Bab. P. vn. vin. 



OED. XI. POLYGALACEJE. 

 POIiVGAIiA. MILKWORT. 



P. vulgaris (common MilJcwort.) Hilly and dry pastures, 

 common. Stem herbaceous, procumbent, giving off several either 

 procumbent or ascending branches, bearing scattered linear or 

 oblong leaves ; branches from 3 or 4 to 8 inches long. Flowers 



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