DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 387 
V. pedéta.— Pedate Violet.—This is a large-flowered 
and handsome species, very distinct from the other Amér- 
ican Violets. Flowers pale-purple, white or yellowish at 
the base of the petals. It is often found in large masses, 
in woods and dry soils, the beginning of June; perennial. 
This will succeed well in the flower-garden, in a light, 
sandy soil, and in a shady place. We have many other 
indigenous species, all interesting on account of their 
early appearance in the spring, but not very remarkable 
for beauty or show. 
“ And as proud as all of them 
Bound in one, the garden’s gem, 
Heart's ease, like a gallant bold 
{n his cloth of purple and gold.” 
V. tricolor.— Heart’s-ease, Pansy.— This interesting 
and. beautiful flower is a native of Siberia, Japan, and 
many parts of Europe. A traveler, speaking of the 
forests of Sweden, says; — “Innumerable flowers of the 
liveliest colors peeped out between the masses of brown 
rock, enamelled with various kinds of lichens, and huge 
fragments were variegated with beds of the Pansy or 
Heart’s-ease, displaying its different hues, relieved by the 
darkness of the sweeping pines.” 
The Pansy, or Heart’s-ease, now so generally cultivated 
and so much admired, is an improvement on the original 
species, and is known to florists as V. grandiflora. It is 
frequently called the Pansy-Violet, or Pansy, a corruption 
of the French name pensees, thought, alluding to keep in 
mind, or forget me not. It is a general favorite, as we 
may well suppose, from the numerous names that have been 
bestowed upon it abroad ; as for instance the following :— 
Love in idleness, .Jump up and kiss me, 
Live in idleness, Look up and kiss me, 
Call me to you, Kiss me ere I rise, 
Three faces under a hood, Kiss me behind the garden gate, 
Herb Trinity, Pink of my John, 
Flower of Jove. 
