(6) Montana. Stays so.
(7) Odorata. Not distinctive;—nearly classical, however. It is to be our Viola Regina, else I should not have altered it.
(8) Palustris. Stays so.
(9) Tricolor. True, but intolerable. The flower is the queen of the true pansies: to be our Viola Psyche.
(10) Elatior. Only a variety of our already accepted Cornuta.
(11) The last is, I believe, also only a variety of Palustris. Its leaves, I am informed in the text, are either "pubescent-reticulate-venose-subreniform," or "lato-cordate-repando-crenate;" and its stipules are "ovate-acuminate-fimbrio-denticulate." I do not wish to pursue the inquiry farther.
24. These ten species will include, noting here and there a local variety, all the forms which are familiar to us in Northern Europe, except only two;—these, as it singularly chances, being the Viola Alpium, noblest of all the wild pansies in the world, so far as I have seen or heard of them,—of which, consequently, I find no picture,
nor notice, in any botanical work whatsoever; and the other, the rock-violet of our own Yorkshire hills.
We have therefore, ourselves, finally then, twelve following species to study. I give them now all in their accepted names and proper order,—the reasons for occasional difference between the Latin and English name will be presently given.
| (1) | Viola Regina. | Queen violet. |
| (2) | " Psyche. | Ophelia's pansy. |
| (3) | " Alpium. | Freneli's pansy. |
| (4) | " Aurea. | Golden violet. |
| (5) | " Montana. | Mountain Violet. |
| (6) | " Mirabilis. | Marvellous violet. |
| (7) | " Arvensis. | Field violet. |
| (8) | " Palustris. | Marsh violet. |
| (9) | " Seclusa. | Monk's violet. |
| (10) | " Canina. | Dog violet. |
| (11) | " Cornuta. | Cow violet. |
| (12) | " Rupestris. | Crag violet. |