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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