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._

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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