10 THE BRITISH PANSIES 
blue striz. Spur longer than the sepaline appendages. 
This plant is best distinguished from V. variata Jord. var. 
sulphurea by the longer spur, narrower sepals, smaller leaves, and 
proportionately much longer internodes. V. variata var. sulphurea 
undoubtedly has been much confused with alpestris, but alpestris 
is a plant of stony uplands, and var. sulphwrea a weed of culti- 
vated fields. (See note under V. variata above.) 
14. VIoLA LEPIDA 
Jordan, Pugillus, p. 28. Exsicc. Billot, n. 2019 (!). 
6-12 in. in height. Stems many, slightly pubescent, arising 
from a ca@spitose base, procumbent below, then ascendin 
cordate, the intermediate ovate-lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, the 
upper ones lanceolate subacute. Stipules hairy and ciliate, meddle 
lobe entire or subentire, narrowly spathulate not foliaceous, the 
h 
pinnate-palmate, the middle lobe not exceeding the lateral ones very 
greatly im size. Peduncles erect or erect-patent. Flowers large 
(4-3in.). Sepals li ] lat t inate cili 
much longer than the sepals, the upper ones overlapping below, 
blue-violet, the lateral ones usually paler, the lowest broad, trun- 
cate, white or pale blue, yellow at the base, with 5-7 strix. Spur 
longer than the sepaline appendages. 
plant of uncultivated land or of cultivated upland fields. 
It is a very well-marked plant with blue and white flowers, and 
with many upright or ascending flowering-stems. 
15, VioLa PoLYcHROMA 
Kerner, Schede ad Fl. Exsice. Austro-Hungar. ii. 89 (1882). 
Exsice. Fl. Exsice. Kerner, Fl. Austro-Hungar. No. 575 (I). 
Perennial cespitose, with underground perennating stems. Aerial 
stems very many, slightly downy, elongate shortly procumbent at 
the base, then erect to a height of 
what flexuose. Leaves ciliate and slightly hairy, lower leaves long- 
petioled, cordate-rotund or cordate-ovate, very obtuse, intermediate 
leaves ovate obtuge or subacute serrate-crenate, uppermost ovate- 
or two shallow crenations), the lateral lobes acute linear. Pedun- 
cles very long. Flowers very large (1-1} in.) and brightly coloured. 
