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Flora of Devon and Cornwall, by 1, W. N. Keys. 
V. permixta (Jordan). On limestone, in the neighbourhood of 
Plympton Maurice : Briggs. D. 
Notices of the discovery of this plant (a form intermediate between Mrta 
and odorata) and of its identification by M. Jordan with his own V. permixta 
have appeared in the Curators' Keports of the Thirsk Botanical Exchange Club 
for 1864 and 1865 : vide Journ. Bot. ii. and iii. 
The subjoined complete description of it, side by side with one of the 
ordinary V. odorata, is taken from the Curators' Eeport for 1865 already 
referred to : — 
V. per mixta. 
Rootstock woody, scaly, wide-creeping, 
sending out stolons, which bear tufts of 
leaves and flowers, and occasionally take 
root. 
Petioles covered throughout with short 
stiff deflexed hairs at the flowering time, 
some of them 4 or 5 inches long, which 
is longer than the peduncles. 
Leaves hairy all over on both sides, 
measuring at the flowering time about 
H inch long, including the lobes, by If 
broad, expanding in autumn to 4 inches 
by 2f , so much cordate that there is only 
a narrow sinus left between the lobes, 
which are \ inch deep. 
Stipules lanceolate, the ciliations few 
and very short. 
Peduncles weak, slender, 2-4 inches 
long when the plant is in flower, the 
lower part hairy, the upper with only a 
few scattered hairs ; the bracts linear and 
slightly gland-ciliated, placed usually be- 
low the middle of the peduncle. 
Sepals oblong, blunt, faintly ciliated 
along the lower third of the edge ; petals 
slaty-blue, the upper pair imbricated, f 
inch wide, the lateral pair rather narrow- 
er, the lowest one % inch across, distinctly 
emarginate at the apex, narrowed more 
gradually than in the other, and with 
fewer veins ; the spur | inch from its ex- 
tremity to the tip of the lower petal ; the 
anther-spur blunt, curved upwards, four 
to six times as long as broad. 
Inodorous, or faintly scented. 
V. odorata. 
Eootstock woody, scaly, wide-creeping, 
sending out long-rooting stolons, which 
bear tufts of leaves and flowers. 
Petioles 1-2 inches long at the flower- 
ing time, some rather densely hairy with 
deflexed hairs, some nearly hairless, or 
the hairs so short as to be quite incon- 
spicuous. 
Leaves rather less hairy on both sides 
than on the other, measuring at the 
flowering time from 1-1^ inch both ways, 
including the lobes, much larger in au- 
tumn, less pointed than in the other, and 
the lobes shorter (nut more than ^ inch 
long), and diverging more. 
Stipules similar in shape, but the cili- 
ations closer and more numerous. 
Peduncles only about 2 inches long, 
not so hairy as in the other; bracts not 
gland-ciliated, placed generally above the 
middle of the peduncle. 
Sepals oblong, blunt, sometimes the 
edge, sometimes the appendage only, 
faintly ciliated ; petals white or deep pur- 
plish-blue, the upper pair |- inch across, 
and hardly if at all imbricated, the late- 
ral pair about as broad, the lowest one § 
inch across, distinctly emarginate at the 
apex ; the spur keeled, and shorter and 
thicker than in the other^; the anther-spur 
curved, blunt, three to four times as long 
as broad. 
Odorous. 
Apropos of this V. permixta it may not he uninteresting to remark that, 
in May, 1859, I found on the slopes below the Citadel, at Plymouth, a violet 
which struck me as being curious, from its resembling in some respects 
V. Mrta and in others V. odorata. I sent a specimen to Prof. Babington, 
who at first thought it might be something uncommon ; but, after further 
correspondence, he fell in with my view that it was only a starved form of 
V. Mrta. 
