TRE VIOLET 
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The violet order (Violarie^) consists chiefly of hardy 
and fragrant plantS; some of them useful in medicines, 
and chiefly inhabiting cold and temperate climates or 
mountainous regions. They have all a singular power of 
projecting their seeds to a considerable distance, and often 
with much force, from the spots on which they grow. 
There is included in this order, besides the flowers 
which W'C always call violet, a genus much resembling 
them, termed lonidium. These flowers are not very 
common, and have not yet even received an English 
name. Another genus only of plants belongs to it, the 
flowers of which are termed Sauvagesia, after Monsieur 
Sauvages, a French botanist. They would not, by the 
general observer, be thought much to resemble the com- 
mon violet. 
