S4 SEEDS SOWN BY THE PARENT PLANT. [cHAP. 



by the sepals, and the whole having a triangular form. 

 When older (Figs. 37 and 38, ^) they look at first sight 

 like an ordinary seed capsule, so that the bud seems 

 to pass into the capsule without the flower-stage. 



Fig. 37. — Viola, hirta. 

 a, young bud ; 3, ripe seed capsule. 



The Pansy Violets do not possess these interesting 

 flowers. In the Sweet Violet ( V. odorata and V. hirta, 

 F'S- 37) they may easily be found by searching among 

 the leaves nestling close to the ground. It is often 

 said, for instance by Vaucher, that the plants actually 



