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A FASCICLE OF VIOLETS. 97 



skirting the shore of Lake Huron; collected by Charles K. 

 Dodge, 12 May, 1906. 



Viola uncixulata. Caulescent and of the V, adunca 

 alliance, but stem undeveloped and not obvious, the whole 

 plant above ground scarcely 2 inches high, in every part 

 glabrous : leaves from suborbicular to broadly ovate, ^ to ^ 

 inch long, often as broad, seeming entire, in reality very 

 remotely and obscurely crenate : peduncles 1/^ to 2 inches 

 long, bearing the flowers much above the leaves, bibracteolate 

 above the middle, the bractlets delicate, subulate : corolla 

 nearly ^ inch long including the very long nearly horizontal 

 and almost cylindric spur which beyond the obtuse end is 

 abruptly narrowed and prolonged into a slender and hook-like 

 appendage a half-line long ; limb of petals rather broad, very 

 obtuse ; sepals oblong-linear, rather obtuse. 



Collected near Crater Lake, Klamath Co., Oregon, 17 Aug., 

 1896, by E. I. Applegate, the fine specimens on sheet 855,292 

 U. S. Herb. V. retroscabra of southern Colorado has a some- 

 what similarly appendaged spur, and so has V. 7namillata of 

 Utah (p. 32 preceding). 



Viola anisopetala. Dwarf and compact, only 1>^ to 3 

 inches high at petaliferous flowering, but flowers large in pro- 

 portion and borne an inch above the tuft of leaves, the plant 

 thus seeming like an acaulescent violet, the whole plant almost, 

 or in some altogether, glabrous: leaves rather firm, from 

 reniform-cordate in the earliest to cordate and oval in the later, 



all very obtuse, minutely crenate, the blades /4 to H inch 

 long, tapering abruptly to the short and not slender petiole ; 

 stipules remotely and subpinnately lacerate : peduncles not 

 slender, notably bibracteolate much above the middle, the 

 bractlets linear, acute erect : sepals lance-linear, acutish, 

 nerveless : corolla ^ inch long, not as broad, light violet or 

 blue, the odd petal out of all proportion longer than the 

 others, broad and emarginate, or even obcordate, the others 

 perfectly rounded at the apex ; spur short though well pro- 



