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1 . Stub as have irregular flowers, 
Viola, Violet. The leaves grow alternately: 
The empalement is cut into five parts, and the 
fegments are refledled : The flower is penta- 
petalous, and refembles a papilionaceous flower ; 
its upper petals have the appearance of a ftand- 
ard, the two fide ones of wings, and the lowed: one 
which ends in a tail, has the likenefs of a keel : 
The fruit is three-corner’ d, opens in three cells ; 
and contains, for the moft part, roundifh feeds ; 
The feed-veflel feems to be flx-corner’d. The 
fpecies are : 
■ ^ I. Viola Martia purpureay~R.. 364. Martiapur^ 
pure a flore fmplici odoro^ C. 199. nigra five pur- 
pureuy G. 699. fmplex martia^ P. Farad. 282, 
Purple Sv/eet Violet. The flowers fmell Tweeter, are a 
little lefs, and tinged with a deeper purple *, the leaves 
are rounder, and it flowers fooner than Dogs Violet, 
It grows by hedges, and on the banks of ditches. 
2. Viola martia alba., R. 364, C. 199. Martia 
flore albo^ G. 669. fimplex martia flore alhoy P. Par, 
282. White fweet-fcented Violet. In the fame 
places with the former. 
3. Viola martia inodor a fylveftrisy R. 364, C. 199. 
canina fylveftrisy G. 700. fylveftriSy P. 755. Wild, 
or Dogs Violet. By hedges and buflies. It differs 
chiefly from the firfl, in that the leaves are lefs, and 
more pointed ; the flowers of a paler purple, and 
v/ithout fmeli •, and laftiy, that the feed-veiTel is longer^ 
and three-corner’d. 
4. Viola canina flore alhoy R. 364. Dogs Violet, 
with a white flower. In Hampftead wood, on that; 
fide the Chefnut-walk where the two ways meet. 
5. Viola canine varietatemy fi non fpeciem diver- 
flam chflervavity D. Dubois y R. 364. This is much 
lefs in all its parts than Common Dogs Violet, and 
the fpur of the flower is yellow. It flowers in May. 
6. Viola 
