VIOLACEAE 887 
Fla. to La., Minn., and Mass.—Shows marked variations in leaf-form and colora- 
tion of petals; the color-form with the upper two petals dark-violet is more com- 
mon in the east-central part of its range. 
2. V. palmata L. Plant villous: leaf-blades palmately 5-11- lobed or -parted, 
the segments oid P. toothed or cleft, the middle segment usually widest; 
petioles, and veins of the lower leaf-sur Mae villous, the upper surface often 
glabrous: sepals o e: podus: rather blunt t: corolla violet-purple, 2-3 e 
broad: eleisto pisci flow prostrate peduneles, their capsules void, 
page with brown, 8-12 mm Es seeds brown.—Wooded hillsides in dry 
ieh soil, various Dioses "Fla. to Miss. Minn., and Mass. 
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d V. Bgglestonii Brainerd. den A oM: of spreading habit especially 
spring: leaf-blades truneate ase, often vea po pulis rarely 
bd ; early leaf blades eee 3-5 lobed, the later o 3-parted, with 
the middle or all three primary segments 2—3- left, the subdivisions inen 
sn or linear, Be serrate towards the summit and bearing a few long 
arrow 2e eeth below: ira violet- own j > the dida petals bearded 
the Eu at; bd petal somewhat villous: leis to Sm s flowers and fru 
underground peduncles till seeds ripen: capsu hien eria iic 
aes ene imeem] 13 mm. long, with la edle iei: one third as long, 
their auricles short, eo prensa seed brown, 2.5 mm. long.—Barrens, Interior 
Low Plateaus, Tenn. and Ky. 
4. V. triloba Schwein. Plant villous: earliest leaf-blades, and those put 
forth in late summer, broadly cordate- d usually uncut, sparsely pubescent 
or glabrate; those VM < petalifer s flow wering, densely villous beneath 
like the petioles, 3-lobed or rarely -part ted, the middle segment broad,. the 
lateral lunate, E ate, often. coarsely foo hed: or pu cleft, the upper 
subdivision narr with more and dee eeper incisions, and the middle primary 
segment ovate, elliptie or pomp qud te in V. triloba dotata ; blades nS 
5 em. wi ture: peduncles mostly glabrous, shorter than the leaves 
petals deep-violet: outer sepals ovate-lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, slightly 
ciliate: cleistogamous capsules ovoid, purplish: seeds buff or brown.—Dry 
woodlands, various provinces, Ga. to Tex., Mo., and Mass 
V. Lovelliana Brainerd. Plant often minutely hoary- a on the 
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nate 
flowering 2-5 em. long, those of later summer tw s long, glabrate, often 
less deeply eut, or uncut: flowers on stalks often ae the leaves: sepals 
2 lanceolate, acute, one third the length of capsule; the auricles short, 
appressed, rounde d, sparsely ciliate: corolla vio let-purple, the three lower 
Pp villous at the throat and marked with dark-purple lines: eleistogamous 
= wers and immature ae s prostrate peduncles: capsule purple-dotted, 14 
m. long: seed buff, 2 m 7; —Sparsely wooded hillsides and knolls, Coastal 
Plain and adj. provinces, ie o La., Okla., and Ark. 
6. V. esculenta Ell. Rootstock stout, ascending, sometimes with purple 
horizontal branches 5-7 cem. long; the foliage spreading, usually glabrous, 
becoming stiff and succulent: first leaf-blades usually uncut, broadly cordate- 
g, fo e g time by leaf-blades 3—5-lobed, suc- 
cessively larger and Mini iiie til blade may z nd 
breadth, the late su ones with obscure lobes flowers long- 
pe eduncled: sepals ee Bancos with emarginate potere ps pale- 
