  Viola Pedata. Cut-Leav'd Violet. Class and Order. Syngenesia Monogamia. Generic Character. Calyx 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis, postice cornuta. Capsula supera, 3-valvis; 1-locularis. Specific Character and Synonyms. VIOLA pedata acaulis, foliis pedatis septempartitis. Lin. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 802. Spec. Pl. p. 1323. Gronov. Fl. Virg. ed. 2. p. 135. VIOLA tricolor caule nudo, foliis tenuius dissectis. Banist. Virg. VIOLA inodora flore purpurascente specioso, foliis ad modum digitorum incisis. Clayt. n. 254. No 89 No89 This species of Violet, a native of Virginia, is very rarely met with in our gardens; the figure we have given, was drawn from a plant which flowered this spring in the garden of Thomas Sykes, Esq. at Hackney, who possesses a very fine collection of plants, and of American ones in particular. It is more remarkable for the singularity of its foliage than the beauty of its blossoms; the former exhibit a very good example of the folium pedatum of LinnÆus, whence its name. Miller, who calls it multifida from a former edition of LinnÆus's Species Plantarum, says, that the flowers are not succeeded by seeds here, hence it can only be propagated by parting its roots. The best mode of treating it, will be to place the roots in a pot of loam and bog earth mixed, and plunge the pot into a north border, where it must be sheltered in the winter, or taken up and kept in a common hot-bed frame. |
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