Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. sog
Great yellow Violet. Jnglis.
On hilly paftures and mountains not unfrequentv
as on Brcughton-heighiSy in Tweddale^ and on tlic
Pentlatid-hilh^ about two miles fouth of Fajl-
Cafile^ at Crawford-John^ near the Lead-hilis^ in
LanerkJIme, and with a purple flower on Mall-
Sy^^y-t iTiBreadalha7ie^ &c. 'ii.VI-VJII.
The plant at its firfl: flowering is dwarfifh, but af»
tervv'ards becomcc^ caulefcent, ereft, and about
fix inches high : the leaves are oval,pubefcent»
and have generally eight diflant obtufe ferratures
in the margin : thcJiipuU are very large, and
either trifid, quinquefid or pinnatifid : the leaves
of the calyx are ferrated behind : the flower is
generally much larger in proportion than in the
other fpecies, and is commonly of a yellow co-
lour, the bafe of the petals being flreak'd with
dark purple rays : fometimes it varies with a
purple flower, the petals having yellow ungues
and ftreak'd as before : we halTe alfo feen it with
two of the petals purple, and the refl: yellow.
The fpur is longer than the caljx, and almofl:
flrait, but not above one-third part {o lono- as
the petals.
VIOLA caule triquetro dlffufo, foliis obloncrls in-
cifis, ftipulis pinnatifidis. SyJ}, 7iat. p. 585. (Ger,
em. 854. /. I. Pet. herb. t. ^j.f. 8. 9. Moris,
hifi.f. 5. /. 7. /. 8, 10. Rivin. t. 120. BlackweU
t. 44.)
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