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BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
pensee, a thought; and hence also, in the language of flowers, the Pansy means think of me. Shakespeare, in the 
following well-known lines, gives an origin of the name of Love in idleness. 
“ Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell : 
It fell upon a little western flower. 
Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, 
And maidens call it Love in Idleness. 
The juice of it, on sleeping eyelids laid, 
Will make or man or woman madly doat 
LTpon the next live creature that it sees.” 
4.— THE YELLOW HEART’S-EASE. (Viola lutea, Smith.) 
Synonyme. — V. grandiflora, Huds. 
Engravings. —Eng. Bot., t. 721 ; 2nd ed., t. 334 ; and our fig. 4, 
in PL 13. 
Specific Character. —Stem triangular, unbranched. Leaves ovate- 
oblong, crenate, fringed. Stipules lobed, palmate. Bracteas minute, 
scarcely toothed. Spur the length of the calyx. (Smith.) 
Description, &c. —This species is generally found in Wales and Scotland; but it is also met with occa¬ 
sionally in the mountainous districts of England, always growing among grass, and flowering from May till 
September. The petals are generally all yellow, but sometimes two of them are purple, and occasionally the 
whole. This species is a perennial, and lienee the garden varieties derived from it are longer-lived than those 
which spring from V. tricolor, which is only an annual. 
THE HAIRY VIOLET. (V. hirta, Lin.) 
This is a perennial species, which grows only on calcareous soils. The flowers are of a pale lilac, small, 
and without fragrance. They appear in April and May. 
THE MARSH VIOLET. (V. palustris, Lin.) 
This species has still smaller and paler flowers than the last. It is a native of sandy, turfy heaths, in the 
north of England and Scotland, and it is occasionally found in the south. It is a perennial, with a long, creeping 
root. 
THE YELLOW-SPURRED VIOLET. (V. flavicornis, Smith.) 
This is a very small plant, never found but in very poor soil. It is supposed, indeed, to be a very small 
variety of V. canina ; but it differs from that plant in the short, blunt, yellowish spur of the flower and its very 
rigid leaves. 
THE CREAM-COLOURED VIOLET. (V. lactea, Smith.) 
This is a white-flowered species only found growing in boggy places, and rather a doubtful native. 
THE YELLOW SEA PANSY. (V. Curtisii, Forster.) 
A pretty little plant, with pale-yellow flowers; found in great abundance in Devonshire and also in Wales 
and Ireland. It is probably only a variety of V. tricolor. 
