890 VIOLACEAE 
17. V. fimbriatula J. E. Smith. Rootstock becoming long and stout, usually 
erect: earliest leaf-blades ovate, obtuse, the later ones ovate-elliptic, acute, 
ely pubescent, obscurely crenulate toward the apex, the basal lobes often 
sharply toothed, incised, or auriculate: scapes com monly e xceeding the leaves: 
auricles of the Il somewhat spreading and ciliate: COR violet- iu E 
capsule green, ovoid, 6-10 mm. long; seed brown: ne M on 
erect peduncles — Hillsides and dry fields, various provinees, Fla. to Ya. Wis. 5 
and N. 8. 
18. V. villosa Walt. Rootstock simple, often long and jagged; foliage 
spreading, minutely villous throughout: leaf-blades ovate, varying to elliptic- 
ovate and orbieular, obtuse, obscurely erenate, cordate with small narrow sinus, 
when mature sometimes 6 em. long and on petioles 12 cm. long: flowers early: 
sepals ciliolate, elliptic- se with rather short auricles: corolla violet, the three 
ee r petals bearded, spur large ees aes e green, 'ovoid-cylindrie, 10 
g ark B own, 1.8 m ong. [V. carolina Greene]—Dry E 
pend woods and roadsides, various ‘provines, Fla. to Miss., Tenn. and S W 
Va.; also W Ark., Tex., and E Okl 
19. V. sagittata Ait. Plant usually glabrous, except the often ciliate 
leaves, or ae dei throughout: leaf-blades lanceolate or Es et 
late, becoming 4—8 em. long, hastately a prin) gers or cleft at t 
base; the earliest aa those produced summer often deltoid- is 
obtuse, merely crenate at the base: Sd n errowiy lanceolate, acute, E poor di 
eorolla violet-purple: eapsule 8—14 mm. long, e ining 50 -70 bro eeds.— 
RROW-LEAVED VIOLET a ist banks and Hn peer Y various e M 
Ga. to La., Minn., and Mas 
20. V. emarginata (Nutt.) LeConte. Plant glabrous: vM leaf-blades 
deltoid or broadly ovate, the base truneate or subeordate often decurrent, oi 
seurely crenate-serrate abov ve the middle, coarsely to gd or incised below 
corolla violet- Apnd rp petals sometimes arginate: cleistogamous capsule 
elli ipsoid, 8—14 ong: peduncles erect, D hat shorter Rn the leaves: 
eed brown. is n abe and hillsides, various provinces, N Ga. to Okla. and 
S E N. Y. 
21. V. septemloba LeConte. Plant glabrous with a vertieal rootstoek: 
leaf-blades cordate-ovate; the first ones often, and sometimes all the leaves, 
uncut, the others primarily 3-lobed, 3-cleft or 3-parted be idely open puc 
the middle segment uncut, relatively long and broad, usually narrowed a 
base; the lateral ipid, sometimes uncut, but ge zn pedately cleft into 
2—4 narrow divergent parts that become smaller towards the base of the 1 
adii usually raised ee the foliage: sepals narrowly lanceolate, with aise 
unded auricles: corolla violet, the three lower petals villous at d base: 
Cist ee amious flowers erect: capsule green, ovoid-cylindric, about m. long: 
seed naa brown, 2 mm. long. [V. vincialis Greene ]|—Pinelands, erm Plain, 
Fla. to Miss. and Va. 
V. incognita Brainerd. Peduncles, petioles and lower surface of leaf- 
blades Par js soft white hairs especially when young (nearly or quite 
glabrous in V. incognita Forbes), the upper leaf-surface glabrous; aestival 
leaves ‘large, the blades rugose, broadly cordate-ovate with open sinus, acute: 
, sm m 
in summer producing numer us filiform runners.—Moist woods, Blue Ridge 
and more northern. provinces, ean to N. Dak. and Que 
23. V. blanda Willd. Leaf-blades cordate-ovate with narrow sinus, com- 
monly acute, often acuminate, glabrous Ecce for minute scattered hairs on the 
