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very slight notches. In a very young state the stigmatic disk is 

 folded over the ovary, but in the fruit it projects all round like 

 the roof of a house. The ovary is much narrowed in its lower 

 half. The hairs on the peduncles are all adpressed, except for a 

 short distance above its base, where they spread. The petals are 

 of a rather paler red than those of P. Lecoqii. 



It is found at Chippenham in this county, on a sandy soil. It 

 also occurs in other parts of the kingdom. Mr Newbould found 

 it at Sheffield in 1859. 



No. III. Viola canina Linn. 



Ray remarks of his plant, named V. canina sylvestris, that it 

 grows " ad sepes, et in dumetis passim. Habetur et in palustribus 

 frequens, nisi forte ea sit distincta species." Cat. Angl. ed. 1, 317. 

 The former is therefore our V. syhatica, the latter V. canina. 

 Linnseus is supposed by some botanists to have derived his plant 

 from the books of Ray and Gerard ; but he quotes neither of them 

 in the Hortus Clifforlianus when founding the species. His 

 character, " V. foliis cordatis oblongis, pedvmculis fere radicatis," 

 will not apply to our V. sylvatica, nor does the cut in Tilland's 

 Icones Novas, 110, represent it, but is a tolerable figure of our 

 V. canina. What we have had to determine is not what was the 

 plant of Gerard, which differs in the two editions of his Herbal, 

 but what was really intended by Linnseus. I fully agree with 

 Pries in believing that the type of the Linnaean V. canina, is the 

 plant which he and I and most of the continental botanists so 

 name. But even if any reasonable doubt remained upon this 

 point we cannot now again alter the names without creating very 

 great confusion. 



No. IV. On Arenaria seepillifolia. 



My attention was first directed to the plant here called A. 

 leptoclados by Mr Borrer, whose labours have done so much for 

 the advancement of British botany. He gathered it at Henfield 

 Sussex, in 1844, and correctly identified it with the A. serpilli- 

 folia P leptoclados of Reichenbach (Icones, v. f. 4941 £). I intro- 



