especially when first opened. Petals varying in size, shorter
than the calyx, whitish, the lower one marked with five
black streaks, sometimes yellow, usually so only towards the
centre of the corolla. Germens obtuse, nearly globular.
The essential differences of this species from the Heart’s-
ease or Garden Pansy, V. tricolor of Smith and Curtis, a re:
Petals shorter than the calyx; germen obtuse, nearly globular.
It may also be readily distinguished by the pale green
colour of the plant, the more erect stem, the leaves more
frequently heartshaped, the rough calyx-leaves, and the
small yellowish-white concave flowers, the lower petal
marked with only five black streaks.
Notwithstanding Linnaeus, in uniting the Heart’s-ease
with the Corn Pansy, considered the former as the variety,
it will doubtless be thought right to continue the names of
tricolor and aroensis as usually applied.
The figure in Johnson’s edition of Gerarde’s Herbal,
p. 864, n. 4, which is altered from that in the original edition,
is an indifferent representation of V. arvensis, though
the description of n. 3. evidently belongs to it.
The specific character of V. tricolor, 1.1287, may be thus
altered:
Stem angular, diffuse. Leaves deeply crenate, oblong.
Stipulas pinnatifid. Petals longer than the calyx. Germen
oval.
E. F.