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hills at Saratoga, Mississippi, 4 April, 1903, by Mr. S. M. 
Tracy. These I take as the type of a new subspecies which may 
be called 
VIOLA AMPLIATA. Of the habit and with the foliage of V. 
pedata but taller, commonly 5 to 8 inches high, glabrous or very 
nearly so, the rootstock not as stout, often ascending rather than 
erect: sepals thin, broader at base than those of the ally, more 
slenderly tapering, the margins merely serrulate-scabrous: corolla 
about 2 inches long, the petals thin, pale-blue, the odd one with 
@ conspicuous stout upturned and almost hooked spur. 
Besides the type specimens in my own herbarium, I find two 
sheets in the U. S. Herb. which seem to represent the species, 
The most undoubted of these is from Meridian, Miss., by Mr. 
Canby, 4 April, 1900. Of the two specimens one is six inches 
high, the other nine, and the plants are as slender as those of 
Mr. Tracy; the dry corollas measuring about 14 inches, the 
sepals and spur as in Mr. Tracy’s plants. The other oneis from 
Auburn, Ala., 22 Apr. 1900, by Mr. Earle. Here the corolla is 
as large, but the two upper petals seem to have been red-purple. 
The specimens are from five to six inches high, slender, from 
ascending rootstocks; but the spur in these is not stout, nor has 
it a certain acutangular upper terminal corner, so to speak, 
which gives the somehwat hooked appearance to that of the type. 
While ordinarily V. pedata and inornata have a merely saccate 
lower petal, this barely visible between the two sepals next it, 
there are nevertheless rare forms of these exhibiting a distinct 
and even conspicuous spur. In the U. S. Herb., one sheet, from 
New Providence, Penn., by A. A. Heller, May, 1900, has flowers 
with an evident spur, not long, yet long enough to be rather 
strongly curved. It terminates obtusely, with no hint of any 
angularity at the end. Another sheet, from Reading, Mass., by 
Chester Kingman, 17 May, 1897, has a peculiar, well elongated 
narrow upturned spur, The corolla here is 1} inches long, the 
petals all of one color, and all emarginate. In both these 
instances the plants are, in all except the spur, quite like the 
usual V. pedata, and do not connect with V. ampliata. 
