FLORA OF FORFARSHIRE. 
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the eye that loves the beautiful, to see, in some summers, 
both on the coast and in Strathmore, the glorious luxuriance 
of this elegant Violet, that invests the fields and meadows, 
though, perhaps, to the eye of the farmer, it may look rather 
blue. 
/ 3 . Hook. (V. arvensis. Murr. V. tricolor , S. arvensis , 
Bab.) 
Common in corn-fields and in shady woods, having 
flowers always smaller and paler than in V. tricolor. 
V. lutea, Huds. Yellow Mountain Violet, or Yellow 
Pansy. H. 37, B. 34. — F. May, July. P. 
(V. grandijlora , Huds. (not L. ?) V. Sudetica, Willd.) 
On the wooded Hill of Laws, near Drumsturdymoor. 
Lumley Woods. On several parts of the Sidlaw Hills, as 
near the foot of Craig Owl, south side, Lundie Craigs, Black- 
law Hill, &c. Near the Mill of Craig, Glenisla, and about 
Lintrathen. Glen Clova, extending all the way from Cor- 
tachy to the head of the glen at Acharne. 
Near Guthrie, Mr G. M‘Farlane. Hill of Dunbarrow, 
Dr 3PNcib. 
0. — V. amcena, Sym. Lawhill, Dundee, and grassy 
glades in the deer-forest of Canlochen. The various inter- 
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mediate states of colouring of the corolla, from the palest 
yellow to the deepest purple, (see Botanical Rambles in 
Braemar , p. 18,) forming the transition from lutea to amce- 
na , are found in both these localities. 
In no place have I been more delighted to find the Yel- 
low Mountain Violet, than in a small birch wood on the 
banks of the Esk, a little below the hamlet of Clova. Here 
it was flowering in great beauty, (July, 1846,) surrounded 
with everything that was pleasant. Indeed, each blossom 
seemed a spell that bound the spirit to the loveliness of that 
delicious spot ; and no one visiting Clova should fail to spend 
an hour in this fragrant copse of birch. Some of the associ- 
ations, linked with such a scene, are very pleasantly described 
in the following lines by a fellow-townsman, Mr J. Sime : — 
“ Above my head the green trees wave their boughs, 
A mossy carpet spreads beneath my feet; — 
