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e some remarks to make about the violets, Vzola 
Patrinii (fig. 2) has an appreciable scent, and its lowest petal 
projects forward as a landing stage for insect visitors ; I do not find 
it to vary much: but Viola serpens and Viola canescens Mr 

Figs. 3 and 4.—Viola serpens, x2, 
of the same flower. The colour of the flower is rich and deep; 
Pp 
colour was lighter, the honey less, the side petals not bearded, the 
spur shorter and the nectary short and fat, so that it secreted honey 
not into the base of the spur, but onto its side-walls. After 

Figs, 5 to 8.—Viola canescens. x2, 

