46 viOLACEj;. 



Hedgebanks and woods ; very rare. P. April, May. 



I. By the sides of the old Park "Wood, and in the chalkpit, Harefield ! ; 



Blackst. Fasc. 110. A mile from Harefield on the Uxbridge Boad, 



1855; Phyt.N. S. i. 62. 



First record : Blackstone, 1737. Confined to the chalk. 



79. V. sylvatlca. Fries. Bog Violet. 



V. canina sylvestris, Ger., and V. canina minor, E. Syn. (Blackst.*). 



V. canina, L., and V. pumUa, Vill. (Melv.f). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 177 ; Hi. 389 ; Comp. 108. Curt. F. L. f. 2. 



Woods, hedges, and heaths ; common. P. April — June. 

 I. Harefield! ; and Uxbridge; Blackst. Fasc. 110. Ruishp and Harrow 

 Weald Commons; Melvill, 11. Euislip Wood. Pinner Wood. 

 Elstree. South Mims. 

 II. Eoad bet. Staines and Hampton. 



III. Whitton. Gravel pit near Hounslow. 



IV. Harrow district, common ; Mclv. 11. Deacon's HiU. Bentley Priory. 



Bishop's and Turner's Woods. 

 VI. Hadley ! ; Warren. Edmonton. Winchmore Hill Wood. 



First record: Merrett, \%6G. With white flowers. In Hampstead Wood, 

 on that side the chestnut walk where the two ways meet ; Mcrrett, 126. 

 All we have seen belongs to the sub-species V. Siviniana, Eeich. 

 {sylvatica var. of Bab. Man.); but Mr. Hind says {Melv. 11), 

 V. Reichenhachiana, Bor., also occurs about Harrow. The small 

 heath form — V. flavicomis, Forst., not Smith — is found (I.) on Stan- 

 more Heath, (IV.) North Heath and Bishop's Wood, and (VII.) 

 South Heath, Hampstead. 



80. V. canina, L. (Bab.). 



Cyb. Br. iii. 319 ; Comp. 108. Syme E. B. ii. t. 175. 



Dry sandy places ; rare. P. April — June, 

 I. Near Harefield, by the Euislip road, a few specimens. 

 II. Near Staines, on the road to Hampton, abundant. 

 III. Drilling-ground, Hounslow. Near Hatton. Heston gravel-pits. 

 First certain record : the Authors, 1866. The small form of V. sylvatica 

 is frequently thus named. 



81. V. tricolor, L. Wild Pansy. Heartsease. Love-in-idleness. 

 Cyb. Br. i. 180 (with V. arvensis) ; Comp. 109. Curt. F. L. f. 1. 



Weed in cultivated ground, especially gardens ; rather rare. A. May — 



September. 

 I. Harefield; Cole. 

 II. Teddington, G-. Francis ; Cooper Supp. 12. Meadow, near Hampton 

 Court Park; Blackst. Fasc. 110. 



» Blackstone's plant may be 80. F. canina. t On authority of Herb. Hart: 



