VIOLA MULTICAULIS 11 
Sepals linear-lanceolate acuminate ciliate, hairy. Corolla mu h 
longer than the calyx. Upper petals diverging but overlapping 
ss suffused 
are yellow. Spur slender, longer than the sepaline appendages. 
is is by far the handsomest of all our British pansies. The 
he pl 
plant grows in uncultivated stony land. I have only found it in 
the Peak of Derbyshire, where it is locally abundant. 
16. ViotA PrRovostit 
Boreau, Fl. du Centre, ed. 3, ii. p. 82. Exsice. Paillot, Vendrely, 
Flagey et Renauld, Flore Sequaniz Exsice. n. 17 (!). 
Stems with perennial underground growth, and long, often 
rather stout, very finely downy flowering-stems, which are decum- 
bent at the base, then ascending. There are many short leafy 
stems arising from the rhizomes. Internodes very long. Leaves 
ciliate, slightly downy below, the lowermost subcordate oval or 
d obtuse contracted into the petiole. Stipules ciliate, 
pinnatifid, the lateral lobes linear-lanceolate acute, a little curved, 
arising successively up the stipule, middle lobe oblong obtuse or 
acute, with one or more crenulatures, or entire, not folsacerus. 
Peduncles very long, arising in the axils of leaves for a long 
distance down the stem. Sepals narrowly triangular-lanceolate 
acuminate ciliate. Corolla large, pale yellow. Upper petals over- 
lapping, lowest broadly triangular truncate-obcordate, base with 
1 
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having rather broader leaves, but some Continental plants so 
named approach our own plants very closely in this respect. 
Cultivated plants of V. lutea Huds. approach V. Provostw in 
i h Ww 
17. V10oLA MULTICAULIS 
V. lutea y multicaulis Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 76 (1857). Exsice. 
eaaiite, Herb. Europ. ann. 1885 and 1886 (!). 
Plant 7-10 in. in height, with very slender underground peren- 
nial branches, and straight, vertical or ascending slightly hairy stems 
many of which bear leaves only. Leaves ciliate, lowest very broadly 
ovate subcordate crenate, inte 
