Suppl. p. 70. — Irv. Loud. FI. p. 165. — Luxf. Reig. FI. p. 59 — Baines’ FI. of Yor ksh 
p. 13. — Leiglit. FI. of Shropsh. p. 314. — Mack. FI. Hibern. p. 23 — Hesperis 
itiodora, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 927^-Huds. FI. Angl. (2nded.) p. 288. — Willd. Sp. PI. 
v. iii. pt. :. p. 531. — Engl. Bot. t. 731. — FI. Dan. t. 924. — Jacq. Anstr. t. 347. — 
Sin. FI. Brit. v. ii. p. 711. — With. (5th ed.) v. iii. p. 726. — Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. 
p. 682. — Hesperis sylsestris itiodora. Dill, in Ray’s Syn. p. 293. — H. panno- 
tiica itiodora, Bauh. Hist. v. ii. p. 878, with a figure.— Viola matronalis , Johns. 
Gerarde, p. 462. 
Localities.— In coppices, hedges, and hilly pastures, especially near rivulets, 
but rare. — Oxfordshire. Plentiful in the wood near the Cottages at Nuneham 
Couitney : Mr. W. Moore. — Cornwall; About Falmouth: Withering. — 
Cumberland; Banks of rivulets about Dale Head : Ray. — Derbysh. Banks of 
the Derwent, near Matlock : D. Turner, Esq. Hoad-side above Kdensor, near 
to a farm-house ; and in a field by the road-side between Castleton and Kgam: 
N. B. G.— j Durham ; In meadow s near Chester-le-streat : N. J. Winch, Esq. — 
Gloucestersh. On Coteswould Ridge, by the road-side, between Krogmill and 
Cheltenham: B. G. Dowdeswell Woods, near Cheltenham : Rev.E. F. Witts. 
St. Ann’s Wood, near Bristol: N. B.G. Banks of the Ouse, near Faitford : 
G. WooiiWAitn. Esq. Bicester. — Hants; In two or three places near Selborne : 
Mr. W. Paimpiin, jun. — Kent; In a field near Mount Pleasant, probably 
escaped from the garden : N.B.G. — Norfolk; Goldisthorpe, near Lvnn. in a 
wood that had foimerly been cultivated ground : ibid — Northumberland ; Hulne 
Abbey Woods; and in the Duke of Northumberland’s woods and plantations 
about Alnwick: N.B.G. — Notts; CoKvick Park; Wilderness at Colwick; 
Clifton Hill: N. B.G. — Shropsh. At Coermaen, near Aston near Oswestry; 
naturalized: FI. Shrop. — Somerset; Woods at Colerne and Farley Castle: 
Mr. T. B. Flower. — Suffolk; Once found near Browston Hall: B.G. — 
Surrey ; W'ood on the right band side of the road about half w ay from Leather- 
head to Dorking: B.G. — Coulsdon; below Box-hill; and in a hedge near a 
farm at Cheam, towards the Lord Nelson: N.B.G. — Sussex; At Southover, 
near Lewes : ibid. — Westmoreland ; Banks of rivulets above Grasmere : B. G. — 
Worcestersh. Occuring sometimes, but obviously a garden outcast : N. B.G.— 
Yor ksh. Clover-field near Kirby Fleetham : N. B. G. In Hellerby Wood, near 
Doncaster; in the road between Stackhouse and Stainforth, one mile north of 
Settle; in the road between Rilston and Colton, seven miles east of Nettle; and 
near Aysgarth Bridge. Wensleydale: FI. of Yorksh. Bolton Abbey Woods: 
Rev. E. F. Witts. — WALKS. G/ctmnrgansh. Among rubbish near the mouth 
of the Tarve : N.B. G.— Pembrokesh. In great abundance in a field on the top 
of the hill on Haverford West, side of Pembroke Ferry : B.G, — SCOTLAND. 
Berwick; In the bed ofa rivulet between Burnhouses and Reston-niill : N.B.G. 
— Edinbitryhsh. Fields near the Hunter’s Tryste ; Delnis of Salisbury Craigs ; 
banks of Glencorse Burn; Colinton and Auehindenny Woods; banks below 
Arthur’s Seat; and banks of the Water of Leith: N . B. G. — Forfarsh. On 
banks near Ably Castle: N.B.G. — Lunurksh. In the fields near llolylown ; 
and in the plantation below Hamilton Bridge: N.B.G. — IRELAND. In a 
meadow close to Knocknahatna, near Oldcastle, county of Cavan : FI. Hib. 
Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 
Root fibrous, tufted. Stem from 1 to 3 feet high, simple or 
slightly branched, leafy, round, solid, hairy. Leaves scattered, 
egg-spear-shaped, or slightly heart-shaped, taper-pointed, toothed 
or serrated, clothed more or less with short bristly hairs; all nearly 
sessile, except some of the. lowermost. Flowers lar^e and handsome, 
purple, rose-coloured, or white, in a terminal spike-like bunch ; 
fragrant in the evening and in rainy weather. Calyx upright ; 
sepals pale pink, tipped with green, and rough with coarse spread- 
ing hairs. Petals inversely egg-shaped, with a long channelled 
claw, and a spreading, entire, or emarginate, limb. Pod two inches 
or more long, nearly upright, a little curved, pointed, of a slender 
cylindrical form, smooth, with 4 simple, not bordered angles, alter- 
nately elevated and depressed by the numerous seeds, which are 
elliptical, concave at one side, and destitute of a border. — Several 
varieties of this plant are cultivated in gardens ; as the double 
white ; the double variegated, & c. 
