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V I O L A lutea.
Y e llow M ountain P a n fy .
P E N T A N D R I A Monogynia.
G en. C har. Cal. 5-leaved, lengthened out at the
bale. P et. 5 , ir-regular; the lowermoft fpurred
behind. Anther<e flightly cohering. Capf. lu-
perior, of one cell, with three valves.
Spec. Char. Stem triangular, unbranched. Leaves
ovato-oblong, crenate, ciliated. Stipulas lobed,
palmate.
S y n . Viola lutea. Sm. FI. B rit. 248. Hudf. ed..1. 331,
With. 263. Hull. 192.
V. grandiflora. Hudf. 380. Lightf. 508.
V. montana lutea grandiflora noltras. Rail Syn. 249.
T H I S Violet, which a fuperficial botanift might pafs by as
one of the many varieties of the Common Heart’s-eafe, differs
widely from that fpecies in its place of growth, in being perennial,
in having a Ample ftem, and in the fhape of its ftipulse,
which are deeply five-cleft and palmate, not pinnatifid nor ly-
rate, though their middle lobe is larger than the reft.
V . lutea is found only in gralfy mountainous paftures, flowering
from May to September. It is plentiful in the north of
England, Scotland, and the wildeft parts of South Wales.
The root is fmall and flender. Stem unbranched, weak and
proftrate at the bafe, then eredt, rifing to the height of 3 or 4
inches, leafy, triangular, very flightly downy, bearing one or
two flowers on very long ftalks from the bofoms of the, upper
leaves. Leaves alternate, on footftalks, more or lefs ovate, crenate,
finely fringed, accompanied by a pair of large, deeply
5-cleft, fringed ftipulae, whofe outer lobes are deepeft and nar-
roweft. Calyx toothed at the bafe. Petals either all yellow,
with dark-purple radiating veins, or the 2 uppermoft are of a
blue purple, the reft yellow with a blue tinge; very often the
whole are purple. The antherae are flightly attached to each
other. The Angular form of the ftyle and ftigma is expreffed
in our figure greatly magnified; the purple line under the
ftigma is remarkable.