28 THE BRITISH PANSIES 
(see p. 3). Thus a sheet in the Manchester Museum Herbarium 
labelled “ Viola segetalis Jord.! Alex (Rhone), June, 1848. Coll. 
no means ae ve that, as Jordan’s acquaintance with the 
pansies increased, he should have found it necessary to separate 
certain plants which he had not eater dekitelinebo This 
such e 
eae PALLESCENS aaa Obs. ii: p. 10. There is a very 
marked similarity between Jordan’s figure of V. pallescens pes il. 
_ t. 1a) and V. derelicta Jordan (Billot, a France et Germ. Exsice. 
no. 2022) and our British plants so named (p. 6 and t. 501, f. 1). 
The upper petals in our British plints and in Billot’ 8 specimens 
are not particularly narrow, while wr ie Jordan’s figure of 
far the very narrow form of the petal is to be Pore a 
constant and specific for pallescens I am unable to say, as I have 
not Nos the oe of —_— ig actually named by 
ord In face of his figu synonymize 
V. drat with 7. pallescens ee se fanthot evidence (see p. 6). 
V. carpatica Borbés. This plant is stated in Koch’s Synopsis, 
ed. ili. * "92 (1892), to be V. declinata x tricolor a subalpina. 
The plant from which I drew up the description on p. 12 had 
been determined by Prof. Borbis himself, and hence there can be 
no question as to the correctness of the naming. The hybrid 
character, however, seems to les is clear. Mr. HE. G. Baker 
stated in Journ. Bot. xxxix. (1901), p. 10, “V. declinata W. & K. has 
not been recorded as British,” and this remark still holds good. I 
have seen several specimens which I was inclined to regard as 
V. declinata, but a careful comparison with the original descrip- 
tion and figure (Waldst. & Kit. Plant. Rar. Hung. iii. p. 248, t. 223) 
as led me to the cage that the British plants are not so 
referable, as all hav r less hairy stem and ciliate leaves, 
while in the desuntoiiva: of dastenain it is stated :—‘ tota planta 
exceptis stipularum ciliis glabra levis.” Moreover, the Cocker- 
ham Moss plants determined by Prof. Borbis as V. carpatica 
do not show any of the characters which —— has led 
me to associate in my mind with hybrid origin (see p. 17). Thus 
our British plants of V. carpatica do not appear to 5 of hybrid 
origin, but of pure ancestry. 
CHAPTER VY. 
CLASSIFICATION. 
T shall here deal only with the system propounded by MM. Rouy 
& Foucand (Flore de France, iii. 1896), and with that of Mr. E. G. 
