MUTATIONS IN VIOLA. 185 
V. FALLACISSIMA. V. Bernardi, Mackenzie, Man. 135, not 
of Greene. Low at petaliferous stage, the large foliage on short 
petioles as in V. Bernardi, but herbage of a light green, the 
stout petioles quite villous-hirtellous, the peduncles slender and 
glabrous, bearing the flowers just above the foliage: sepals lan- 
ceolate, acute, ciliolate: corolla not large, apparently blue rather 
than purple: foliage whether young or mature more like that of 
Bernardi than of perpensa, always more or less flabelliform rather 
than subcordate in outline, cleft to the middle in the earlier, in 
the later nearly to the base, at this stage on elongated petioles 
(plant 8 or 10 inches high) the blade more than 3 inches wide 
and about as long, the segments broad, obtuse, often coarsely 
subserrate-toothed, rather densely but shortly hirtellous-ciliate 
and with sharp partly appressed hairs on the veins as well as 
now and then in the spaces between them: apetalous flowers of 
summer very short-peduncled and almost or quite hypogeous, 
never straight or upright. 
In dry woods of extreme western Missouri, Jackson Co., col- 
lected by Mr. Bush and also by Mr. K. Mackenzie, and sent to 
me rather copiously by both, their specimens with less divided 
foliage being reported by me as V. Bernardi, the others as V. 
pedatifida, all too hastily done, on my part; for not one of the 
Specimens can rightly be referred to either of those species, 
They all represent a plant somewhat analogous to V. perpensa. 
yet in character very different. That this has any immediately 
genetic relation to V. pedatifida I altogether doubt. All the 
material known to me is in my owu herbarium. 
V. DIGITATA, Pursh. PL i. 171; probably also V. ranunculi- 
folia, Juss. in Poir. Encycl. viii. 626. Related to V. pedata, 
from which it differs by a cuneate-obovate leaf which is undi- 
vided and digitately cleft, or merely lobed, or even only toothed. 
Such a violet, inhabitant of the Atlantic slope of the United 
States southward, was known to Michaux; next by Le Conte, 
who communicated dried specimens to Pursh from Virginia, 
with also doubtless the manuscript name V. digitata; but 
later Le Conte declined to assign ita name even as a variety, 
LEAFLETS, Vol. i, pp. 185-200. Feb. 24, 1905. 
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