4 THE BRITISH PANSIES 
The distinctive characters of this plant are very difficult to 
express on paper, but they are very obvious in the actual plant 
whether fresh or dried. The leaves are thinner than in agrestis, 
and of a drier texture, sometimes almost subcoriaceous. 
between mai ( 
purple-green tint of the sepals and their appendages is also very 
characteristic. ee 
specimen thus named, collected by Boreau, “ Alloins Cher. 
6/54,” ex herb. H. C. Watson in the Manchester Museum, agrees 
exactly with our plant in habit and crenulation of leaves. 
5. VIOLA OBTUSIFOLIA 
Jordan, Pugillus, p. 23. 
Stems many pubescent ascending from the base, but with one 
principal stem, or single erect. Leaves ciliate, often sparsely 
pubescent, crenate, very obtuse, the uppermost alone sometimes 
subacute, never acuminate. Stipules with linear lateral lobes aris- 
strie and yellow umbilicus. Spur of lowest petal not longer than 
f 
s. Tab. 500, f. 2. 
A plant of cultivated and waste land, generally in cornfields. 
It is readily distinguished from V. agrestis by the pale green colour 
of its leaves and their very obtuse apices, the uppermost alone 
ing sometimes subacute. The foliaceous middle lobes of the 
stipules at once distinguish it from V. segetalis. 
6. VIoLA RURALIS 
Jordan in Boreau, Fl. du Centre, ed. 3, ii. 81. Exsice. Billot, 
Fl. Gall. et Germ. n. 3526 (1). 
Plant 6-10 in. in height, covered with a fine pubescence. Stem 
branched from the base, branches ascending or upright, straight. 
Leaves crenate, lower leaves ovate obtuse, the upper leaves ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, somewhat pubescent. Stipules ciliate, 
broad, with broadly linear-oblong lateral segments arising near the 
base and successively for some distance up the stipule, and directed 
forwards, giving with the middle lobe a palmately pinnate form to 
the stipule as a whole; middle lobe broad, usually with a wide base, 
crenate. Peduncles nearly vertical in flower, spreading slightly 
-in fruit. Sepals lanceolate acute, pubescent, ciliate, with broad 
oblong appendages. Petals as long as or a little longer than the 
sepals, yellowish white, sometimes with a violet suffusion in 
the two uppermost, the lowest often with violet striae. Spur 
