Jïlartï). 
VIOLA ODORATA. 
NAT. CLASS,—DICOTYLEDONES ; ORDER,—VIOLACEÆ. ART. CLASS,— 
pentandria; order,—monogynia. 
Although Violets and Heart’s-eases are usually dis- 
tinguished in horticulture, they belong to the same 
genus. Some of the genus, as the Dog-Violet, and 
common Heart’s-ease, are furnished with manifest 
stems j whilst others, as the suhject of the présent 
plate, hâve their stems so very short that they appear 
to be without any, and the flower-stalks seem to spring 
immediately from the summit of the root. The Sweet 
Violet, however, puts forth creeping scions, or runners, 
by which it is propagated in ail directions round the 
parent stock ; and this circumstance constitutes the most 
striking distinction between it and the Hairy Violet 
( Viola HirtaJ ; for though the latter is almost always 
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