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broad, on slender petioles an inch long, before flowering crowded 
in tufts at the ends of the naked prostrate ascending branches, 
which are lengthened out when flowering often a foot or more, 
diffusely straggling, and producing from 2 to 6 or 8 fl. FI. sub- 
corymbose scentless large conspicuous bright full y., like those 
of the common garden Pansy, V. tricolor L., but less flat and 
regular, f to 1 inch in diameter. Lower ped. elongated pube- 
rulous, upper shorter and with the br. and pedic. mealy-pu- 
bescent. Sep. acute puberulous, ciliato-pubescent at the edges. 
Claw of all the pet. pubescent ; the 3 lower streaked and bearded 
inside at the base. Seeds from 15 to 20 ovate pale yellowish. 
An exact representative and near ally of the European V. 
calcarata L. 
f4. V. TRICOLOR L. Wild Heartsease or Pansy. 
St. diffuse ascending branched ; 1. deeply crenate, the lower 
ovate-cordate, the upper ovate-oblong or lanceol ite, stip. large 
lyrate-pinnatifid, their terminal lobe large ovate-oblong or 
lanceolate crenate. — DC. i. 303 ; EB. 1287 ; Sm. E. Fl. i. 305 ; 
Presl 134 ; Koch 94 ; Bab. 39. 
/3. arvensis Sm., Presl, Koch, Bab. 11. cc. ; fl. small incon- 
spicuous, pet. scarcely longer than the cal. very pale y. almost 
w., the lower odd one v. and streaked at the base ; spur obtuse 
about the length of the basal lobes of cal. — V. tricolor var. a. L., 
k. DC. 1. c. V. arvensis Brot. i. 306; EBS. 2712. Mnemion 
tricolor (Spacli) WB. ! i. 112. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2; Corn- 
fields, roadsides and waste ground here and there ; about the 
Mount, Allegria, &c., near Funchal. March-Sept. — Shining 
and apparently smooth but more or less puberulous. St. 6-12 
in. long angular often flexuose. Fl. varying in size, but never 
so large as in a, the larger blue-flowered var., which is not found 
except in gardens in Madeira. 
Order IX. TAMARISCACE^E. 
The Tamarisk Family. 
Fl. perfect regular. Cal. 5-4-partite persistent imbricate in 
the bud. Pet. 5 or 4 hypogynous regular imbricate in the bud, 
marcescent. Stam. 5^4 or 10-8, hypogynous free or mona- 
delphous. Caps. 1 -celled 3-valved many-seeded loculieidal, 
placentas often imperfect. Seeds ascending comose ; embryo 
straight; albumen none. 
Shrubby or small trees. L. cypress-like minute sessile scale- 
like alternate more or less imbricated entire, falling off* together 
with the branchlets. FL small in dense terminal spikes or 
racemes, white or pink. 
