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petaliferous flowers, notably broader than long, both surfaces, but 

 more conspicuously the lower, hirsute-pubescent, especially along 

 the veins : corollas large, rather light blue, all the petals broad and 

 obtuse, the odd one like the others but a little longer; sepals of the 

 petaliferous flowers oblong, obtuse, hispidulous below, especially the 

 auricles : apetalous flowers of summer and autumn very short- 

 peduncled and horizontal or partly buried, but the peduncles 

 slender ; sepals small, glabrous • pods triquetrous-ovoid, finely 

 dotted, 4 or 5 lines long : late foliage nearly glabrous, but rather 

 fleshy." Newly cleared ground near Brown's wharf. 



Viola Dicksonii, Greene ; Pittonia, Vol. IV., 65. 



"Allied to V. aispidaia^ but the herbage light-green, the 

 pubescence more sparce and hispidulous, the petaliferous flowers on 

 nearly terete peduncles about equalling the leaves and bibracteolate 

 near the base : sepals lanceolate, either naked or ciliolate: corolla 

 about 'Y\ i"ch lo"g) of a fine lavender-blue, the paired petals, 

 especially the two uppermost, obovate-rhomboidal, the laterals 

 white at base and strongly bearded with indistinctly clavellate hairs, 

 the keel-petal shorter and narrower than the others, more or less 

 conduplicate or convolute especially at apex, white at base, and 

 purple-veined above the white : summer foliage less broad in pro- 

 portion to its length than in V. cuspidata and more apt to be cucul- 

 late : apetalous flowers on short but nearly or altogether hypogeous 

 peduncles." 



Viola vagula, Greene; Pittonia, Vol. IV., 67. 



" Dark-green glabrous rather notably fleshy herbage ; leaves at 

 time of petaliferous flowering about an inch in diameter, somewhat 

 deltoid-cordate, the length equalling or surpassing the breadth, the 

 margin lightly crenate: peduncles surpassing the leaves, obscurely 

 angled or semiterete, bibracteolate in about the middle, the rather 

 obtuse bractlets with a few obscure glandular teeth : sepals oblong, 

 obtuse : corolla nearly an irxh in diameter, the breadth commonly 

 greater than the length ; petals deep violet, at base darkly venulose 

 on a white ground, all obovate spatulate, obtuse or notched, the odd 

 one especially broad and of.en obcordate, the pair next to it bearing 

 each a dense tuft of rather long and slender not in the least clavel- 

 late hairs ; style not prolonged beyond the anthers ; apetalous 



