20 ENGLISH BOTANY, 



Capsule about ^ inch long, with o faces, on each of which thci'e are 

 3 furrows ; valves at lirst boat-shaped, but the two sides close 

 together, after the seeds escape ; seeds brownish olive. Plant nearly 

 glabrous, with a few very short scattered hairs on the upper surface 

 of the leaf. 



V. flavicornis, Forster, not Smith (Eug. Bot. Sup. Ts'o. 2,736), 

 appears to be drawn from a small specimen of V, lliviuiana; 

 but Mr. H. C. Watson remarks that he is inclined to think that 

 both V. Riviniana and V. flavicornis, Smith, have been before the 

 draughtsman ; the left-hand figure looking like V. flavicornis, but 

 neither of them being satisfactory delineations of either of the two 

 plants above mentioned. 



Qerarde's Dog Violet. 



French, Violellc de Rivin. 



Sub-Species II.— Viola Reichenbachiana. Borecm. 



Plate CLXXIV. 



■V". sylvestris, "Lam." Jiekh. Ic. Fl. Genu, et Helv. Vol. III. Viol Tab. XII. Fig. 4503, 

 A. G. Mm-e, in Report of Tliirsk Nat. Hist. Soc. Bot. Ex. Club, 18G1, p. 7. 

 Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 78. 

 V. sylvatica. Fries. Lloyd, Fl. de I'Ouest de la Fr. p. 56. Brchisson, Fl. de la Nor- 



mandie, p. 38. 

 V. sylvatica a, EeichenbacLiana, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 38. 



Lower leaves scarcely as broad as long ; upper leaves decidedly 

 narrower than long. Petals pale reddish purple, narrowly oblong ; 

 the lower one oval-oblong, with about 5 unbranchod purple veins 

 at the base. Spur (usually reddish purple, darker than the petals) 

 clavate, laterally compressed without a furrow, and entire at 

 the apex. Capsule with the appendages of the sepals very incon- 

 spicuous. 



In woods and hedges. Apparently rare, though locally abundant 

 in some districts, as in Cambridgeshire. It has been found, though 

 sparingly, in most of the districts in which it has been searched 

 for ; as in the Isle of Wight, Tliames Ditton in Surrey, and North 

 Yorkshire. 

 England, Scotland ? Perennial. Early Spring and (apetalous 

 flowers) Summer. 



This plant differs from V. Riviniana in its smaller flowers, 

 with the petals much narrower in proportion, and of a redder 

 tinge ; the dark-coloured spur has the lower side nearly straight, 

 and the upper slightly curved, so that it becomes thicker towards 

 the apex. The most marked difference, however, is in the appen- 

 dages of the sepals, which do not increase greatly in size after 



