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and on the short rounded aurieles: corolla violet a lavender and occasionally 
e eleistogamous dies usually mottled with brown: seed dark- rown, 
. long.—Moist meadows, shady ledges, and dooryards, various provinces, 
N.. C. to Okla., Minn., and One. 
12. V. hirsutula Brainerd. Plant of small size: leaf-blades dd 
ee to the gro und, 2-5 em. wide, cordate-ovate to renifor dli e, 
purplish and glabro s beneath, pic aee a often pare e-veined 
and mottied with differe nt sh ades of gre : flowers on peduncles cus 
the leaves: corolla reddish-purple: apet apes pem ovoid, on short 
prostrate Druide. developing ovoid iier capsules, 6-8 mm . long, earing 
each 20—30 light-brown seeds.—Dry rich woods, various provinces, Ga. to Ala. 
and N. Y. 
13. V. affinis LeConte. Plant nearly glabrous: leaf-blades that unfold at 
vernal flowering mu ig a 2 e suni: ly vies ate toward the 
apex, becomin wide ummer argin noticeably crenate-ser- 
rate; petioles noe 20 ciis pm any nie white bane conspicuous, the 
spurred petal more or less villous: eleistogamous flowers small, ovoid, on 
pre er long beg i d car capsule ellipsoid, 5-8 mm. long, usually 'red- 
th j inute dense 
dish-brown, s green, either b 
pubescence: sopas h half the length of the capsule, with small appressed auricles: 
idea rmally buff.—Mbist meadows, low woods, and shaded stream-banks, 
ari ius provinces, Ga. to Ala., Wis., and Vt. 
14. V. Langloisii Greene. Leaf-blades glabrous, cordate-ovate, attenuate, 
crenate-serrate (3—5-lobed in V. Langloisii pedatiloba) ; those that mature after 
flowering relatively bu Bd ET 2 6 cm. long: flowers on 
3 em 
d Peu Min Piu! bearded. ut Sus rred pecu ostly glabrous: oe 
ing peduncles, sagittate, EN eir mature eapsule narrowly 
ipse. Duc ‘faintly Tie hen purple, 10-12 mm. long, w with lanceo- 
late acuminate a one ha ong, the Ege. glabrous, dentate, 2 mm. 
long: seed buff, mm. lon us —Wet and shady borders of slow Streams, 
Coastal Plain, Miss. to Tex. 
15. V. chalcosperma Brainerd. Plant Jee Reged i e leaf-blades 
at the wea nae s the close of the season's growth uncu ut former 
cordate 2—3 cm. long, the latter Dance at ba broadly deltoid 2 5e m. long; 
vernal leaf bs d 3-lobed, the middle lobe ovate, acute, the lateral 
on ve the leave 
sepals dark purple, lanceolate, "5 mm. long, icles 34 
. lon d bs outer sepals with one or more sharp teeth: pic bronze- 
"y red, 1. . long, about 50 in a eapsule.— Wet soil in shaded ravines, 
near J pong Fla. 
16. V. cucullata Ait. Plant glabrous: leaf-blades, except the ipit. cor- 
date- Manes acute or subacuminate, often 9 em. wide when matur : peduncles 
commonly much exceeding the leaves: sepals narrowly iun : corolla 
violet-blue, darker-colored at the throat, the psu petals with strongly elavate 
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beard, the spurred petal glabrous, generally somewhat shorter than the lateral 
ones: eleistogamous flowers gs er slender, on eret often elongate peduneles: 
capsule ovoid-cylindrie, Meu 0—15 mm. long, diu: exceeding the long- 
k, 
auricled sepals: seed nea rly blac E 5 mm. —(BLUE MARSH- br 
MEADOW-VIOLET. lue soil, various provinces, m Plain only N, Ga. 
Ont., Que., and M 
