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5. Short-leaved Violet with ftriated flowers. 
Viola fcliis hrevihus f.oribus ftriatis. 
The root is a clufter of innumerable, ficnder 
fibres. 
The leaves grow in a great tuft: they have Hiort 
and weak footftalks, and many of them lie upon 
the ground: they are roundifh, but heart-faHiion- 
ed at the bafe, and Tomewhat pointed at the end; 
of a pale green, hairy, and foft to the touch. 
The flowers (land on very fhort footftalks, and 
are fmaller by much than m the commen viclet : 
they are of a faint red, beautifully flreaked with 
a deep purple. 
The feed-veffcl is oblong, and the feeds are 
very numerous. 
It is frequent in the northern parts of England 
under damp hedges. It flowers in May. 
Ray calls it Viola rubra firia'.a eborafcevfis : a 
name given by Parkinlbn, who firfl: received 
it from Yorklhire. 
6. Great hairy Violet with ftriated flowers. 
Viola inajor hirfiita foribus Jlriatts. 
The root is long, thick, hard, and woody. 
The leaves rife from its head, four or live to- 
gether, and are very hairy, of a pale green, ob- 
long, heart-fafliioned, and notched at the edges; 
and they have very long, whitifli, hairy foot- 
ftalks. 
Thefe and the flov/er-ftalks are all that rife 
from the root-, for it does not fend out any 
hanging flioots that take root, as the common 
violet ; nor any of thofe leafy ftaiks that are in 
the common dog violet. 
The footflialks which fupport the flowers are 
ihort and thick. 
The flowers are large, but of a faint pale blue, 
ftreaked with white. 
The feed- vefl~el is large and fiiort; and the 
feeds are very numerous. 
It is frequent under hedges, and flowers in 
June. 
Ray calls it Viola trachelii folio. Morifon, Viola 
martia major hirfuta imdora, Merret, I'icla foliis 
trachelii ferotina, 
Panfy, or Hearts-eafe. 
Viola tricolor major. 
The root is long, flender, divided, and full 
of fibres. 
The ftaiks are numerous, weak, and of a faint 
green : they fpread every way upon the ground, 
and in part raife themfelves up for flowering: 
they are fix or eight inches long, and branched. 
Thofe leaves are fliort, roundilh, and lightly 
indented, which grows on the lower part of the 
ftaiks ; but many of the others are longer, and 
more deeply cut ; and fome toward the top di- 
vided to the rib by numerous fegments. 
They are of a deep green, and fmooth furface. 
The flowers are very beautiful \ they are vari- 
egated with purple and yellow; and there is 
ufually more or lefs white, or blue, among them. 
Thefe two colours are the more ftriking in this 
flower, but from one of thofe, which comes in, 
-though in a kfs obvious manner, as a third, the 
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plant obtained its Latin name of Viola tricoloTt 
and its Englifh one of three faces under a hood. 
The feed-veflTel is ftiort and fmall ; and the 
feeds ar e numsroua. 
It is found wild among corn in the north of 
England, and has thence been brought into our 
gardens. 
In its wild ftate it is lower in the ftalk, and 
the flowers are fmall and lefs fpecious. 
Frequently there are only two colours in them, 
but thofe are bright and ftriking. We have ano- 
ther wild fpecies, to be defcribed hereafter, with 
two faint colours, is diftind, and muft not be 
confounded with this. 
Ray calls this Viola tricolor. Others, Viola 
tricolor major et vulgaris. J. Bauhine, Flos Iri- 
nitatis. 
8. Small-flowered Panfy. 
Viola bicolor foUis r.iinoribns. 
The root is a tuft of flender fibres. 
The firrt leaves are roundifti, and flurply fer* 
rated at the edges. 
The ftaiks arc flender, upright, and weak s 
and they are very little branched : they are of a 
pale yellow colour, and fix or eight inches high. 
The leaves that grow on thefe are oblong, 
I narrow, and very deeply divided : they are of a 
pale green, thin, and tender. 
The flowers are numerous and fmall, and they 
have very little beauty, and are generally varie- 
gated only with white and a dead yellow. 
The feed-veflels are fmall and roundifli ; and 
the feeds are very minute. 
It is common in corn-fields throughout the 
kingdom ; and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Viola bicolor arvenfis. O- 
thers, Viola tricolor fylvejtris. J. Bauhine, Jacea 
bicolor fruguiu et hortorum vitium. 
9. Great-flowered yellow Panfy, 
Viola liitea grandijiora. 
The root is long, flender, and furniflied with a 
great number of fibres. 
The firft leaves are oblong, broad, and not aC 
all divided at the edges; but they fomctimes» 
though not univerfally, have a couple of little 
appendages, like ears, at the bafe. 
The ftaiks are fiender, weak, and four or five 
inches high. 
The leaves on them are partly divided deeply, 
and partly whole, in the manner of thofe from 
the root; and they are of a deep green, and 
gloffy. 
The flowers are very large, of the fliape of 
garde fi panfy ?iO''Nzry more than equal to it ia 
fize; and of a fine gold yellow colour, with' 
out the leaft mixture of any other. 
They ftand upon very long, flender footftaik* 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves ; and, whea 
fully open, make a very fplendid and elegant ap- 
pearance. 
The fced-veflTel is fmall, and the feeds are 
numerous. 
It is found in many parts, of the north of Eng- 
land, and flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Viola montana lulea grandijiora 
nojiras. Others, Viola fammea. 
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