dog-violet

The winter was over; there were primroses peeping out of the moss and brambles, and a shy little dog-violet shining like a blue eye here and there.

Vixen, Volume I. 1875

Thus, in our common dog-violet the perfect flowers rarely produce seed, while the rudimentary cleistogamic flowers do so in abundance.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Its real difference from our dog-violet is in being pale blue, and having a golden centre

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

Now, we have crab-tree, a wild apple-tree; a canker rose, a wild rose; dog rose, dog-violet, horse leech, horse chestnut.

Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

I have painted two roots side by side, one of the scented, one of the dog-violet; also a specimen of the white violet, which is not so common as that of the dark kind, but its smell is quite as delicious. "

Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. Caroline Hadley

[3] I am ashamed to give so rude outlines; but every moment now is valuable to me: careful outline of a dog-violet is given in Plate X. [4] A careless bit of Byron's, (the last song but one in the 'Deformed

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859