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wards and bear foliage leaves and flowers. Stems more or les 
ete aa somewhat flexuose, slightly hairy. Basal leaves Sy 
petioled, yenvias ovate, very obtuse, with a few shallow crenu- 
lations ; intermediate leaves ovate obtuse or ae crenate, 
usually ciliate ; cpanel toad ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute. 
Stipules digitate, with entire oblong or spathulate obtuse middle 
lobe, and linear acute lateral lobes. Flowers many, large, pe- 
duncles arising from the axils of leaves for some distance down 
the stem. Sepals linear-lanceolate, finely denticulate or ciliate, 
with small appendages. Petals yellow (occasionally tinged with 
violet or oooe longer than the sepals. Spur slender, longer than 
the sepaline 
A large Shalt of maritime sandhills. 
21. ViouA PESNEAUI 
E. G. Baker in Journ. Bot. 1901, 9. 
V. tricolor 3 Pesneaui Lloyd, Fl. Ouest Fr. ed. 3, 43 (1876). 
Plant 6-10 in. in height, with oeugmosig citip Pies og ose 
which turn upwards and bear foliage-leaves and flow 
distinctly hairy, strongly cespitose, often forming a oa nese 
rowth. Leaves glabrous, with ciliate petioles; lower leaves sub- 
orbicular or ovate obtuse crenate, intermediate and upper leaves 
oblong-lanceolate obtuse crenate. Stipules digitate, with linear 
obtuse or acute entire middle lobe, and small linear acute lateral 
lobes. Sepals narrowly linear-lanceolate or linear, with short 
22. VIoLA SABULOSA 
“ Bor. Not. 3” (ex Index Kewensis) ; a in Bull. Roy. Soc. 
elg. vii. 353 (186 
V. tricolor » sabulosa DC. Me i 304 (1824), Exsice. Billot. 
2499 (!) 
Lower leaves oval, siborsneilsats leaves narrowly lanceolate, the 
upper leaves long and sublinear ; plant glabrescent. Upper petals 
violet, the lower yellow at the base 
is plant differs from the other members of the Curtisii 
section in having long and very narrow leaves. Some of our 
British Pansies seem to be referable to this species, but I have 
not seen any with “ahi so long and narrow as certain specimens 
from the West of Fra 
VI. NANA. 
Dwarf plants with stem-leaves entire and with very minute 
flowers, 
