THE BRITISH PANSIES. 
E. DRABBLE, D.Sc., F.L.S. 
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Tue British Pansies have been much neglected by systematists. 
It has been recognized that several distinct plants are included 
under the names JV. tricolor L. and V. arvensis Murray, but no 
been sent out under one name, and some of these plants have ap- 
peared again and again under different names. This renders the 
problem more than usually involve 
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nomenclatural side of the subject, as well as a summary 0 the 
Cuapter I. 
In this chapter only the Pansies comprised in V. tricolor L. 
and V. arvensis Murray will be dealt with; the Curtisi and lutea 
sections will be treated later. : 
The plants under immediate consideration 
groups arvensis and saxatilis in Rouy & Foucaud’ 
I shall here make three groups—I. ARVENSES ; 
and IIT. Saxariuzs. 
fall into the two 
s Flore de France. 
II. TricoLores ; 
I. ARVENSES. 
Plants of cultivated soil, annual in duration, with a simple 
descending root, and without underground perennating branches. 
Flowers small, pale coloured, with corolla normally shorter than 
or equalling the sepals. 
Journan or Borany, Oct. 1909. [2np SuPPLEMENT.] a 
