26 THE BRITISH PANSIES 
V. arvensis the following note occurs :—‘‘arvensis 8 = 8 
- ? 
Under 
bicolor erecta, Senna stipulisque ciliatis. 
iola banatica appears therefore to be intermediate between a 
large-flowered tricolor-Pansy and an arvensis-Pans pe ns 
nt ew Herbarium, collected in 1854 and 1867, a 
referable to V. variata Jord mall oo from the Isle of 
ome) 
Wight, collected by Miss C. E. Palmer and named V. banatica by 
Prof. Borbas, is —, referable to V. inte but the i arongee 
in my herbarium is a small and apparently dwarfed one; 
indeed, are all the pee ene I have seen, and I do not feel able 
to speak with any confidence about this plank 
. banatica Kit. of Schultz Herb. norm. nov. sér. cent. 27, 
no. er seems to be a tall yellow- aay ‘ rae Jordan. 
V. GRACIL reise scones Obs. ii. p. 2B. (V. tricolor 
p- Sacalemens DC. Prodr. i. p. 304). The car of Jordan’s figure 
appears to approach met ae? to V. ruralis Jordan as described 
above (see p. 4 and tab. 500, fig. 4), and the suggestion was made 
(p. 5) that it saab be found to be identical with that plant. 
Since writing the passage just amin i I have seen the speci- 
men from M. Seringe’s herbariu erb. Kew. This plant 
was believed by Jordan to be idetitical gem his V. gracilescens 
(see Obs. p. 22); it certainly approaches the plant referred to 
e 
habit and in other small characters. I am not prepared to state 
that V. ruralis Jordan and V. gracilescens Jordan are synonymous 
without further evidence 
I was therefore in error in claiming V. gracilescens Jordan as a 
British. plane in the London Ca talogue, ed. 10; the plants there 
intended must be referred to large-flowered ruralis. True graci- 
lescens is a slenderer plant than ruralis, ie i vagas in all its 
parts except the flowers which are rather lar. 
be MENTITA Jordan ap. Billot, Anot. Fl. ikss et Allem. 101 
(nomen). The specimen {Billot, no. 2021) which I have seen seems 
to Hie identical with the plant Billot, no. 3526, V. ruralis Jordan, in 
my own herbarium (p. os while a specimen hg Herb. Déséglise 
“Cher. Gréves du Cher & St. Amand, 22 Juin, 1864” in Herb. 
Kew., and also a plant grown from seed fro os Ohae r by Mr. J. G. 
Baker in 1865, are apparently V. subtilis J eran, In either case the 
plant seems vn be referable to another previously named species. 
ui Jordan, Pugillus, p. 22. Jordan’s species was 
founded e ‘Sinake from Tot loting collected by Timbal-Legrave. 
I have seen a plant in Herb. Kew. from Toulouse, collected and 
named by Timbal himeolf, but I am unable to distinguish it from 
V. subtilis Jordan. 
V. conrFinis Jordan is made by Rouy & Foucaud (FI. de France, 
‘iii. p. 43) ie en with V. Provostit Jordan. Iam not in 
potion at present to express any opinion on this matter. 
A CONTEMPTA Jordan, Pugillus, p. 24. I cannot distin- 
ee. the British plants so named by Boreau (Baker’s Plants of 
North Yorkshire, No. 17, Viola contempta Jordan, Boreau! Culti- 
