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VIOLA HEDERACEA. 
Stoloniferous New Holland Violet 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.— Nat. Ord. VIOLACEJE. 
Gen. Char.— CaZ. 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis, postice cornuta. 
Anth. cohaerentes. Caps, supera, 3-valvis, 1-locularis. 
Viola hederacea ; caulibus subnuUis stoloniferis, foliis fasciculatis reni^ 
formibus denticulatis longe petiolatis, stipulis subulatis, calycibus 
vix productis, petalo infero ovali bifido, basi subtus gibboso. 
Viola hederacea, Labill. Fl. Nov. Holl. v. i. p. 66. t. 91.— De Cand. Prodr. 
V. i. p. 305. 
Glabrous. The stem, or point from which the leaves spring, is scarcely any, 
apparently constituted by the united bases of the petioles, throwing out 
long, filiform, glabrous stolons, which again produce clusters of leaves 
at various distances, and always at the base of each cluster send forth 
a rather strong, fibrous branching root. Leaves fasciculated, from 3-6 
in a cluster, an inch or an inch and a half broad, when young, almost 
cuneate, and their sides rolled inwards, afterwards reniform and plane, 
or even convex on the upper surface, obscurely nerved, the margin den- 
ticulated, placed upon slender grooved petioles, from 2 to 4 or 5 inches 
long. 
Peduncles or scapes from the axils of the leaves, erect, longer than the leaves, 
with an indistinct groove, and two subulate hractece near the middle, 
Calyx shorter than the corolla, cut into 5 deep spreading, ovato-lanceor 
late segments, scarcely at all produced at the base. Flowers scentless, 
purple, marked with deeper stains, white at the tips. Two upper petals 
reflexed : two lateral ones obliquely twisted, gibbous near the base, and 
pubescent : lower petal oval, bifid, striated, the base gibbous only on 
the under side, convex on the upper, green, with a white margin An- 
thers nearly sessile, large, yellow-brown, appendaged at the extremity. 
Germen obovate. Style bent at the base, filiform. Stigma white, taper- 
ing from the style, acute. Capsule oval, 3-valved: Valves with a sep- 
tum down the middle, to which the numerous obovate seeds are attach- 
ed. Seeds with a rachis. Albumen white. Embryo with its radicle 
pointing downwards. 
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