Grows spontaneously in Portugal; flowers in the open border about the
middle of May, is an old inhabitant of our gardens, but, like the
_triandrus_, is now become scarce, at least in the nurseries about
London; in some gardens in Hampshire we have seen it grow abundantly:
MILLER calls it the _Hoop Petticoat Narcissus_, the nectary, as
he observes, being formed like the ladies hoop petticoats.

It certainly is one of the neatest and most elegant of the genus, is
propagated by offsets, and should be planted in a loamy soil, with an
Eastern exposure.




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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._