2984.
VIOLA canina.
Dog Violet.
P EN TAND R 1A Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx of 5 sepals, extended at the base.
Petals 5, irregular, the lowermost spurred behind.
Anthers slightly cohering, the two lower ones
spurred behind.
Spec. Char. Primary and lateral stems flowering
and lengthening. Leaves cordate-ovate. Spur
of corolla blunt. Spurs of anthers lancet-shaped,
broad. Stigma slightly hooked, not capitate.
Syn. Viola canina. Linn. Bp. PI. 1324. Pries, Nov.
Mant. 3. 122 ; Herh. Norm. Cent. 4. 42. Gren.
et Godr.Fl. Fr. v. 1.180. Coss. et Germ. FI. Par.
ed. 2. 138 (excl. var. (3.). Bah. Man. ed. 5. 38.
Byrne, E. Bot. ed. 3. v. 2. 21. pi. clxxv.
Viola pumila. Hook. Am. Br. FI. ed. 8. 48 (not
Fill.).
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X HIS is accepted by Continental botanists as the true
Viola canina of Linnæus, and we do not see any reason for
disagreeing with them, although attempts have been made to
show that the V. sylvatica of Fries is really what was intended
by that great botanist. Linnæus founded the species in the
Hort. Cliffortianus, and there describes the present plant, and
quotes Tilland’s leones Novce, where a tolerable figure of it
will be found. That cut certainly does not represent either
of the plants associated under V. sylvatica. This is not what
people in England usually intend by Dog Violet ; but that does
not affect the scientific nomenclature in the slightest degree.