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REV. E. F. UNTON ON A FEW NORFOLK FLANTri. 
touched during this time they feel of a stony coldness, and certainly 
appear to have none of their faculties in operation. 
But with the warmer weather, they again gradually resume the 
precise habits of the preceding year. Gradually, their bright little 
eyes resume their intelligence ; their memory re-a wakens ; and they 
return to the ways, and the habits, and the places of the preceding 
season, as if their sleep of seven months, were but a single night, 
and last summer verily but as yesterday. 
They are in many respects both curious and remarkable animals. 
"We find them to have enough of intelligence, enough of quaintness, 
and apparently enough of affection, to give them considerable 
interest in the eyes of their owners, and to raise them out of 
the level of despised reptiles. Whilst their remarkable construction, 
and mysterious power of hybernation, render them specially worthy 
of study and contemplation. 
These specialities and peculiarities must be ray much-needed 
excuse for having troubled you so long with these few details 
of their personally observed habits and ways. 
V. 
NOTES ON A EEW NOBFOLK PLANTS, INCLUDING 
FIVE NEWLY FOUND IN THE COUNTY. 
By the Eev. E. F. Linton, M.A. 
Read 28th Septe7nber, 1886. 
When we speak of the blue Violets of spring, we call them 
Dog Violets, as if we had settled them off for a name, without a 
thought of the varying forms which this scentless ornament of our 
hedgerows and pastures has assumed. Viola canina and Viola 
sylvatica are the two main species ; and each has two or more 
varieties. V. sylvatica is, in its more usual form, broad and blue 
in the petal, pale and furrowed in the spur, and has a scpiarish 
prolongation of the sepal at its base, which becomes more obvious 
