ee PLATE CLIIL. 
ViQ@uaA PEDAT A. 
Bird’s-foot-leaved Violet. 
CLASS XIX. ORDER. VI. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA MONOGAMLIA. Tips united. Flowers fimple. 
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GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx. Perianthium pentaphyllum, breve, per- 
 fiftens; foliolis ovato-oblongis, ereétis, apice 
m 
ngulum 
petalum 8. y.; unicum duo petala ¢. «. fi- 
mil. 
Corotxa pentapetala, irregularis, petalis ina- 
qualibus; quorum 
Petalum a. supremum reGtum, deorfum fpec- 
tans, Jatius, obtufias, emarginatum, defi- 
nens bafi in ne¢ttarium corniculatum, obtu- 
fum, inter calycis foliola prominens, 
B. y. Lateralia paria, obtufa, oppofita, recta. 
8, ¢. Infima paria, majora, furfum reflexa. 
Stamina, Filamenta quinque, minima, quo- 
a‘ petalo a. proxima appendicibus 
annexis intrant neétarium, 
_. pius connexz, obtuf, membranis ad api- 
cem autte. 
Pistittum. Germen fubrotundum. Stylus fi- 
_ liformis, extra antheras prominens, Stig- 
ma obliquum. 
PericarPium. Capfula oyata, trigona, obtufa, 
unilocularis, trivalvis. 
Semrna plura, ovata, appendiculata, valvis af- 
_ fixa. Receptaculum lineare, per fingulam 
_ Valvulam linez inftar excurrens, 
Ols. Stigma vel in hamum simplicem reflecti- 
tur, vel capitulum est concavum apice per- 
Sorato. 
*. SPECIPIC 
VioLa acaulis; foliis pedatis, feptempartitis; 
_ Jaciniis dentatis, _ 
\ 
_1. The Empalement. 
2. One of the upper 
3. One of the lateral Peta] 
4. The lower Petal, wi 
5. The Chives and Pointa 
Antherze fe- — 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 
Brossom five petals, irregular, unequal petals, of 
which 
The upper petal a. is upright, bent back, broader, 
and blunter than the reft, notched at the 
end, terminating at the bafe in a blunt horn- 
aped honey-cup, protruding between the 
. leaflets of the cup. 
The lateral petals 8. ¥- grow in pairs, obtufe, 
oppofite, upright. 
er petals 3. &. grow in pairs, larger, and 
reflexed upwards, : 
Five threads, very {mall; of which 
the two neareft to the petal a. have fimall 
ud roundifh. Shaft thread. 
thaped, projecting beyond the tips, Summit 
oblique. : 
SEED-VEssEL, Capfule ege-thaped, three-fided, 
blunt, one cell and three valves, 
SEEDs many, egg-fhaped, having appendages, 
fixed to valves. Receptacle linear, 
running like a line along each valve, 
Obs. The summit is either reflexed into a sim- 
ple hook, or a concave small head perforated 
at the end 
CHARACTER, 
= without a ftem, leaves formed like a 
ird’s foot, with feyen divifions; fegments 
toothed. 
Petals of the Bloffom. 
s. 
th its Honey-cy : 
| with the Appendages that fall ; : 
“from the two hinder oe ag Ppendages all into the Honey cup 
6. The Pointal Magnified.. 
-_ Tue Bird’s-foot-leaved Violet is a native of N, 
the Kew Catalogue) was cultivated by Mr. P. M: 
or in pots. The roots may be parted in March 
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orth America near Philadelphia; and (according to 
ar “ 1759, at the Phyfic Gardens, Chelfea. i 
e the wetnefi : 
upon sisetuieionn Moy, ry etneis of our autumnal months: the 
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