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larger, petioles winged above, pedunc. much elongated,/, large 
and broad pale l^right blue, spur 2 — 3 times longer than cal.- 
append. greenish and curved upwards, caps, acw^t-.— Fenny 
places, Woodwalton, Hunts, ? elsewhere. — P. Y.-VI. E. 
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9 and 10 ; see also Drabble in J. of Bot. Appendix : 1909. 
V. lutea Huds. ; perennial with very slender underground, 
stems and tall or short glabrous shoots, stip. small palniatifid 
lohes linear entire terminal scarcely larger subspathulate, 
pedunc. long,/, large, spur long slender 2 — 3 times cal. -append. 
— Upland grassy pastures. — P. IV.-IX. E.S.I 
V. Curtisii Forst. ; perennial ivith slender underground stems 
and short usually decumbent c^spitose rather hairy shoots, 
stip. palmatifid lohes all narroiv terminal larger, fl. usually 
small sometimes large pale yellow to purple, spur rather 
long and slender. Some large fld. Irish forms are glabrous. 
Maritime sand.— P. V.-IX. E.S.I. 
V. tricolor L. emend., W. Becker ; pereniMting, stems 
elongated or tall, intemodes usually long, stip. ± palmatitid 
mid. lobe large leajlike lat. lobes small, /jet. much longer than 
sep. often purple, " pollen chamber ' closed," spur about 1| cal. 
app., stigma lip large "pointing forwards and downwards." — 
V. eu-tricolor Syme : Saxatiles Drabble.; short decumbent 
tricolored plants of cultivated ground are probably forms 
of V. arvensis. — Montane pastures. A. — P. VI. -IX. E.S.I. 
[F. alpestris (DC.) W. Becker; perennial, "stip.±pin- 
natifid," mid. -lobe usually lin. lane, subentire lat. lobes broad 
lin., pet. twice as long as sep. often brightly coloured, " pollen 
chamber open,'' spur twice as long as cal.-app., stigma as 
V. tricolor. — ? V. saxatilis Schmidt. — Authors do not agree in 
their diagnosis of this from the last : all our forms would 
appear to be V. tricolor in Becker's sense.] 
V. arvensis Jklurr. ; annual, stem simple branched or many 
from base usually leafy with short internodes, stipules variable 
mid. lobe leafiike, fl. small, sep. usually ciliate, pet. equal. sej>. 
mostly yellowish white, " pollen chamber open," sprir subequal. 
cal.-app., "stigina hp pointing downwards and backwards."— 
V. variata Jord. ; short tufted very leafy, 1. ovate mostly 
1 The "pollen chamber " is the glabrous enclosure between the lines of hairs 
on the lower petal, which in V. areensis is connected with the rest of the limb. 
