884 l VIOLACEAE 
the branchlets usually E ras short, ending in compact flow 
or fruit-elusters: blades of the ous cauline and branch- pede elliptic, 
often narrowly so, or MY 4-8 m en ng, acute: calyx in fruit obovoi id; inner 
puts about 1.5 m dono 16 oosely Be cent; outer Des slightly m than 
er: eapsule subglobose or globose-o obov oid, 2 mm. long, exserted.—Dry 
pubes pe pen Fla., also reported from Tex. Sun E all. 
L. Deckertii Small. Stem branched at the woody base, the branches 
forming tufts, very an usually minutely and sparingly pubescent, sooner 
nicles: ipti 
lax 
capsule; inner sepals « about 1.5 mm. long at maturity; outer B fully one- 
half as long as the inner: capsule pA globose, 1.2-1.4 mm. long, much 
exserted.—Scrub, Coastal Plain, pen. Fla. to S Ga.—Sum.—fall. 
14. L. myriophylla Small. Stem branched at the woody base, the branches 
forming tufts, very leafy, more or bus pubeseent, sooner or later developing 
ad io ; 
red, with the in fruit, lax 
not N the a. inner sepals nearly 1.5 mm. long at maturity; 
outer sepals about half as long as the inner: capsule globose, about 1.5 mm. 
long, much-exserted.—Serub, S part of Lake Region, pen. Fla.—Sum.-fa H. 
Famity 9. VIOLACEAE — VioLeT FAMILY 
Herbs, or in tropieal regions oque shrubs or trees, with E. 
alternate or opposite stipulate leaves, and perfect irregular solitary 
clustered flowers. Sepals and Deals 5, the latter hypogynous, peres 
in the bud, the lowermost pens spurred. Stamens 5, the ant we ers erect, 
syngenesious or connivent. Gynoecium 3-carpellary. ‘Ovary l-c en- 
closing numerous ovules on the 3 parietal placentae and a in fruit 
a loculicidal capsule. Teen anatropous.—Fifteen genera and about 300 
species, widely distributed. 
des auriculate at base. " VIOLA. 
Sepals not auriculate at base. . CUBELIUM. 
1. VIOLA L. Herbs, either leafy stemmed and rather ~A or stem- 
less; petaliferous flowers mostly in early spring on one-flowered peduneles: 
that project into the sae or spur o e odd petal; these two stamens alone 
developed in the cleistogamous flower.—Allied species freely hybridize when 
growing together; the hybrids commonly display eharaeters more or less inter- 
mediate to those of the parent species, and show marked vegetative bon but 
impaired fertility; their offspring are often much unlike the mother plant and 
unlike each other, reverting variously to the characters of the two via 
species—About 200 species, of wide geogr aphie distribution.— VIOLETS.— 
Some species are used medicinally; others for ornamental gardening. 
Plant stemles M d and scapes from a rootstock or a runner. 
Flowers imd ' with a faint pungent fragrance: plants indigenous 
Corolla violet a purple (white in albino forms) : plant without stolons. 
All petals “ea apetalous Dos wan - I. PED 
i Contributed b Ezra Brainerd for the e astern 
United States (Ed. . ud oo with slight ers ge the present work, 
by Edward Ji ohnston Alexande 
