304 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Viola. 



V. n. 562. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 241. 



V. flore albo, Riv. Pentap. Irr. ^ 120./. 1. 



V, paluslris angustis persicae foliis mucronatis et serratis, nonduni 



descripta. Rupp. Gen. ed. Hall. 289. 

 V. caule erecto, foliis ovato-lanceolatis serratis. Boehm. Lips. 190. 



On mountainous boggy heaths. 



On the sides of the bogs on Waterdown forest, near Tunbridge. 

 Mr. T. F. Forster. At Pendarvis, Cornwall ; Mr. Stackhouse. 

 With. In hilly pastures near Peebles, North Britain ; Mr. 

 Maughan. Hooker. 



Perennial. Maij. 



Much smaller than the last, and quite smooth. Stems creeping at 

 the base, then ascending, 2 or 3 inches high, round, or very 

 slightly angular in some parts, leafy. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 bluntish, finely crenate ; the lowermost sometimes very small, 

 ovate, or even heart-shaped. Footstalks dilated, or bordered, 

 towards the upper part, generally longer than the leaves. Sfi- 

 pulas deeply toothed, cut, or often pinnatifid. Flower-stalks 

 much like caniria. Flower smaller. Calyx-leaves long, linear. 

 Petals milk-white, or of a very pale blue, with purplish streaks. 

 Anth. tipped with a yellow membrane, distinct. Pistil as in ca- 

 nina. The hracteas are usually broader than in that species, and 

 more or less serrated, but this character seems variable. So 

 many botanists have distinguished this plant, and it is so little 

 changed by culture, except perhaps, as Boehmer says, in size, 

 ■that I cannot but retain it as a species, notwithstanding many 

 occasional scruples. 



6. N . flavicornis . Dwarf Yellow-spurred Violet. 



Stem ascending, woody, somewhat angular, much branched. 

 Leaves heart-shaped, coriaceous, smooth and even. Sti- 

 pulas and bracteas fringed. Calyx-leaves lanceolate. 



V. canina y. Fl. Br. 247. 



V. caninae varietas minor. Dill, in Raii Sj/n. 364. t. 24./. 1. 



In pastures, and on banks, in a gravelly soil. 



About Mitcham, Surrey. Dubois. About Norwich. Mr. Crowe. 



Perennial. Maij, June. 



Root of many long fibres. Stejn an inch or 2 high, partly decum- 

 bent, but not creeping, much branched, curved and twisted, per- 

 fectly shrubby, and lasting many years. Leaves alternate, firm, 

 rigid, very even and smooth, heart-shaped, obtuse, minutely cre- 

 nate, scarcely half an inch long, on linear footstalks about the 

 same length. Stipulas deeply serrated, or fringed with glan- 

 dular teeth. Flower-stalks 1^ or 2 inches long, erect, bearing 

 towards the top a pair of minute, linear, finely fringed bracteas. 

 Fl. half the size of V. canina, of a rather deeper blue, with a 



