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Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
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24. These ten species will include, noting here and there a local variety,
all the forms which are familiar to us in Northern Europe, except only
two;--these, as it singularly chances, being the Viola Alpium, noblest of
all the wild pansies in the world, so far as I have seen or heard of
them,--of which, consequently, I find no picture, nor notice, in any
botanical work whatsoever; and the other, the rock-violet of our own
Yorkshire hills.

We have therefore, ourselves, finally then, twelve following species to
study. I give them now all in their accepted names and proper order,--the
reasons for occasional difference between the Latin and English name will
be presently given.

(1) Viola Regina. Queen violet.

(2) " Psyche. Ophelia's pansy.

(3) " Alpium. Freneli's pansy.

(4) " Aurea. Golden violet.

(5) " Montana. Mountain Violet.

(6) " Mirabilis. Marvellous violet.

(7) " Arvensis. Field violet.

(8) " Palustris. Marsh violet.
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