NEW SOUTHKRN VIOLETS. 41 



Two New Southern Violets 



Viola planifolia. Related to F. cticullata, but slender 

 white woodstocks short and erect, apparently not solitary but 

 in clumps : plants a foot high or less, with about 3 or 4 leaves 

 and 1 or 2 flowers ; petioles and peduncles sparsely hairy, 

 some hairs deflexed, others spreading : leaves deeply cordate, 

 plane, small for the plant, the earliest 1 inch long, the latest 

 2 inches, thin, light-green, serrate-crenate, nearly or quite 

 glabrous : peduncles far exceeding the leaves, bracted above 

 the middle ; sepals narrowly lanceolate, obtusish, plainly 3- 

 nerved, entire, scarious-margined, their auricles hispidulous : 

 corolla blue, nearly an inch broad ; uppermost petals largest, 

 strongly retuse, laterals narrower, retuse, the odd one broad, 

 much shorter than the others: capsules oval, not greatly ex- 

 ceeding the sepals. 



Thompson's Mills, Gwinnett Co., Georgia, 2 May, 1909, 

 collected by H. A. Allard. 



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Viola Allardii. Akin to V, aicidlata, also of wet ground, 

 but the rootstocK very short, stout and upright, bearing many 

 w^hitish fibrous roots ; both leaves and flowers numerous for 

 this group, and the leaves short-petioled, surpassed by the 

 flowers, yet the whole plant no more than 3 or 4 inches high : 

 herbage rather delicate, yet subsucculent, glabrous in every 

 part : lowest leaves reniform to broadly cordate, the later 

 deltoid-cordate, acute, crenate : peduncles bracteolate much 

 below" the middle, the bractlets narrowly subulate-linear, 

 ascending, entire : sepals lanceolate, acutish ; corolla blue or 

 purple, large, nearly an inch long, but petals all narrow, the 

 odd one as long as the others, all obtuse, the laterals with a 

 tuft of long flattish hairs. 



Open and very wet land near Thompson's Mills, Gwinnet 

 Co., Georgia, 1 April, 1909, H. A. Allard. 



Though almost undoubtedly a member of the bog-meadow 

 group of stemless species, this one has so nearly no rootstock 

 at all, and displays so large a tuft of whitish fibrous roots as 



