A NEW BLAND VIOLET. 24% 
A New Biand Violet. 
VIOLA MINUSCULA. Allied to V. blanda and white-flowered, 
but extremely small, the largest plants only 13 inches high, 
growing in dense matted masses: leaves small, on petioles shorter 
than the blades, these subreniform-orbicular, } to 4 inch long, 
hardly as broad, very obtuse, faintly erenate, glabrous on both 
faces, the petioles, especially of the later season, hirtellous: 
peduncles quite surpassing the leaves, prominently bracted 
below the middle; sepals oval and oblong-elliptic ; corolla white, 
large as in V. banda, not fragrant. Plant in summer not 
larger than in spring, producing most delicately filiform stolons 
and a few very short-stalked parthenogenetic flowers ; the suc- 
ceeding pods long and narrow. 
This interesting violet has beep sent me from western New 
York, Chatauqua County, by Mr. William B. Limberger, with 
full notes of its habitat, and characteristics as differing from V. 
blanda. It is said to be the very first of all violets to appear in 
the spring, in that region; being three weeks earlier than H 
blanda. Its habitat is wet meadows, where it is associated with 
that small low caulescent violet, V. cardaminefolia, Greene. 
V. bianda, a plant always several times larger, has a different 
habitat in the region, and is never seen growing with or near 
V. minuscula. 
On page 228 preceding I twice wrote, inadvertently, GUILLE- 
NIA ROSTRATA, where it should have been G. LONGIROSTRIS, etc. 
