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5. Short-leaved Violet with ftriated flowers. 
Viola foliis brevibus floribus firiatis. 
The root is a clufter of innumerable, flender 
fibres. 
The leaves grow ina great tuft: they have fhort 
and weak footftalks, and many of them lie upon 
the ground: they are roundifh, but heart-fathion- 
ed at the bafe, and fomewhat pointed at the end; 
of a pale green, hairy, and foft to the touch. 
The flowers ftand on very fhort footftalks, and 
are fmaller by much than in the common violet: 
they are of a faint red, beautifully ftreaked with 
a deep purple. : : 
The feed-veffel is oblong, and the feeds are 
very numerous. 
It is frequent in the northern parts of England 
under damp hedges. It flowers in May. 
Ray calls it Viola rubra ftriata eborafcenfis: a 
name given by Parkinfon, who firft received 
it from Yorkthire. 
6. Great hairy Violet with ftriated flowers. 
Viola major birfuta floribus firiatis. 
The root is long, thick, hard, and woody. 
The leaves rife from its head, four or five to- 
gether, and are very hairy, of a pale green, ob- 
long, heart-fafhioned, and notched at the edges 5 
and they have very long, whitifh, hairy foot- 
ftalks. 
Thefe and the flower-ftalks are all that rife 
from the root; for it does not fend out any 
hanging fhoots that take root, as the common 
violet; nor any of thofe leafy ftalks that are in | 
the common dog violet. 
The footftalks which fupport the flowers are 
fhort and thick. 
The flowers are large, but of a faint pale blue, 
ftreaked with white. 
The feed-veffel is large and fhort; and the 
feeds are very numerous. 
It is frequent under hedges, and flowers in 
June. 
Ray calls it Viola trachelii folio. Morifon, Viola 
martia major hirfuta inodora. Merret, Viola foliis 
trachelii ferotina. ‘ 
7. Panfy, or Hearts-eafe, 
Viola tricolor major. 
The root is long, flender, divided, and full 
of fibres. , 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and of a faint 
green: they fpread every way upon the ground, 
and in part raife themfelves up for flowering: 
they are fix or eight inches long, and branched. 
Thofe leaves are fhort, roundifh, and lightly 
indented, which grows on the lower part of the 
ftalks; but many of the others are longer, and 
more deeply cut; and fome toward the top di- 
vided to the rib by numerous fegments. 
They are of a deep green, and fmooth furface. 
The flowers are very beautiful, they are vari- 
egated with purple and yellow; and there is 
ufually more or lefs white, or blue, among them. 
Thefe two colours are the more ftriking in this 
flower, but from one of thofe, which comes in, 
though in a lefs obvious manner, as a third, the 
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plant obtained its Latin narhe of Viola tricolot's 
and its Englith one of ¢hree faces under a hood. 
The feed-veffél is fhore and fmall; and thg 
feeds are numerous. 
It is found wild among corn in the north of 
England, and has thence been brought into our 
gardens. 
In its wild ftate it is lowet in the ftalk; and 
the flowers are {mall dnd lefs fpécious. 
Frequently there are only two.colours in them, 
but thofe are bright and ftriking. _We,have ano- 
ther wild fpecies, to be deferibed hereafter, with 
two faint colours, is diftind, and muft not be 
confounded with this. 
Ray calls this Viola tricolor. Others, Viola 
tricolor major et vulgaris. J. Bauhine,; Flos tri 
nitatise 
8. Small-fowered Panfy. 
Viola bicolor foliis minoribus. 
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The root isa tuft of flender fibres, 
The firft leaves are roundifh, and fharply fer 
rated at the edges. 
The ftalks are lender, upright, and weak 3 
and they are very little branched: they are of a 
pale yellow colour, and fix or eight inches highs 
The leaves that grow on thefe are oblong, 
narrow, and very deeply divided: they are of a 
pale green, thin, and tender. 
The flowers are numerous and fmall, and they 
have very little beauty, and are generally varie- 
gated only with white and a dead yellow. 
The feed-veffels are fmall and roundifh ; and 
the feeds are very minute. 
It is common in corn-fields throughout th¢ 
kingdom ; and flowers in June. 
C,Bauhine calls it Viola bicolor arvenfis.. .O« 
thers, Viola tricolor fylveftris. J. Bauhine, Facea 
bicolor frugumn et hortorum vitium. 
9. Great-flowered yellow Panfy. 
Viola lutea grandifloras 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with a 
great number of fibres. 
The firft leaves are oblong, broad, and not at 
all divided at the edges; but they fometimes, 
though not univerfally, have a couple of little 
appendages, like ears, at the bafe. 
The ftalks are flender, weak, and four or five 
inches high. ° 
The leaves on them are partly divided deeply, 
and partly whole, in the manner of thofe from 
the root; and they are of a deep green, and 
glofly. 
The flowers are very large, of the fhape of 
the garden panfy flower, more than equal to it in, 
fize; and of a fine gold yellow colour, with- 
out the leaft mixture of any other. 
They ftand upon very long, flender footftalks 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves; and, when 
fully open, make a very fplendid and elegant ap- 
pearance. : 
The feed-veffel ig fmall, and the feeds are 
numerous. 
It is found in many parts of the north of Eng- 
land, and flowers in July. ° : 
Ray calls it Vicle montana lutea grandiflora 
noftras. Others, Viola flammea, 
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