strongly nerved. Flower-stalks one or two, axillary.
Flowers small; petals scarcely longer than the calyx, yellow,
with blackish branched radiating lines, the lateral paler
than the lower, the upper whitish.
This may be distinguished from Viola lutea, Engl. Bot.
t. 721, by the corolla not being above half the size, by the
minute roughness of the stem, by the want of hairs on the
edges of the leaves, and by the nerves being more strongly
marked on the back ofthe stipulas, and less regular; and from
Viola tricolor, (with which it agrees in the leaves not being
ciliated,) by the narrow lobes of the stipulas, as well as by
a very different mode of growth.—E. F.
