8 THE BRITISH PANSIES 
V. Lloydi in this respect, but generally differing in the fl 
being wider in proportion to its length. The habit of the plant, 
however, is quite different, being usually ceespitose or subcespitose, 
and the form of the stipule is totally different from that of 
usually the corolla is large and brightly coloured, approaching 
ower 
it. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. no. 2025 (!) in parte is a small parti- 
coloured Pansy, but there seems to be a mixture here, as I have 
seen sheets which contain plants differing in no respect from 
. ruralis as described above. a6 
ar. sulphurea (nov. var.). This differs from the above princi- 
pally in bearing pale yellow flowers, and in having more hai 
. It appear 
: tio 
alpestris Jordan will be discussed at length hereafter. There is 
no doubt that this plant has repeatedly appeared under the name 
alpestris, and it is possible that it may be necessary to place this 
under alpestris as a short-spurred lowland variety. 
11. VIOLA CANTIANA, sp. n. 
hispid or hispidulous ciliate, lowest leaves rotund- ver 
obtuse, crenate, the intermediate and upper ones lanceolate crenate, 
obtuse or sub ll the leaves small, 1- ength 
e very sharp and definite colouring of the petals is charac- 
teristic of this pansy; this and the cxspitose habit, the rela- 
tively long internodes, and the very small hairy or hispidulous 
leaves and small stipules render this plant easy to recognize. 
is one of the best marked of our pansies. It seems to be very 
rare, and hitherto I have only met with it in Kent. “ Viola 
gractlescens Jord.” of Schultz's Herb. Norm. seems to ) 
with it, but Iam quite unable to make this agree with Jordan’s 
figure of V. gracilescens (Observations, ii.). 
III. SAXATILES. 
_ Plants of uncultivated land or of upland fields. Perennial, 
with underground perennating branches and many aerial flowering- 
