1^4- ^h(atural Hijlory 
3. Viola Martia hirfuta major inodora. Which large Violet from 
a fibrous root fender h forth many leaves, each upon his own 
foot-ftaik, neither creeping as the comrhon March^ nor branch- 
ed as the common Dog-violet ; its leaves and flalks are all hairy 
efpecially on the back-fide ; they are alfo broader, larger, and 
more feinted than the ordinary March Violets^ which occafioned 
(as fome think) the ingenious Dr. Merret to note it by the name 
of Viola Trachelii folio % but that certainly muft be fome diffe- 
rent kind, the leaves of ours being zllinvecked^ as in Tab.9.Fig.i. 
whereas the Trachelia are all indented : Amongft the leaves grow* 
IdiXgt flowers^ upon foot-ftalks (as other Violets^ of a pale blue 
colour, with wh'itt lines or rays iifuing from the middle of them, 
but wholly w\t\\o}xi fient. They flower in Marchtnd. April ^ and 
are commonly but abufively fold to the fjjops amongft other Vio- 
lets^ they not being fo good for any of thofe ufes the Apotheca- 
ries iput them as other Violets are. They grow plentifully in 
Magdalen College Co^s^ on Shotover hilly Stcw-wood^ and many 
other places. 
4. Viola paluflri^ rotundifolia. From the root of this Plant, 
which is white^ and at equal diftances knotted (whence only it 
fends forth its fibers not downward, hvLthorizontallj') arife 3 or 
4 (fomtimes more) feeble fmall fialks^ each bearing at its top 
only a round leaf, as in Tab. 9. Fig. 2. Among which, about 
April come up the flalks of the flowers^ i]lender,like thofe of the 
leaves ; the whole ?lant being weak, and beholding to the neigh- 
boring ones for its fupport. The flovpers are all fmall and blue, 
which being paft, a long Prifmatical feed-vefel fucceeds, open- 
ing its felf when ripe into three parts, and fliewing a rank of 
hrown feeds^ appended to each angle by white Nerves: This is 
eafily diftinguidi'd from all other Violets by its native place^ 
wherein it is fuppofed they will not grow ; and by the fmalnefs 
of its flovrers^ which are confiderably lefs than any of the reft ; 
whereunto add the remarkable roundnefs of its leaves, which are 
fo far from drawing to points^ that the longeft way of them is 
from fide to fide. Clufim indeed feems to defcribe a Plant like 
this, by the name of Viola Alpina altera \ but makes its flower 
as much greater^ as ours is lefs than the common one ; adding 
befide, that it flowers about the latter end of June^ a month be- 
i Fmaxrer. Nat. Bxitafi.p. I2y ' Car. Clufi ?!ant.Hi[l. c^f. j^. 
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