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VIOLARIE^. [Viola, 



of Un, St V. 1. p. 255. Bich. in Frankl, 1st Joum, App. ed, 2. p. 8.? De Cand, Prodr, v» 

 1. p, 297. — V. repens. Sckwein. (fide Le Conte,) — V. striata. Ait Hort Kew. ed, \, v, 3. 

 p. 291.? De Cand, Prodr. v, 1. p. 297.? Le Conte in Silt Jotirn, v. 5. ^.69. 



Hab. Woody country, from lat. 54° to 64°. ? Dr, Richardson. Canada. Le Conte. — I do not find this 

 in any of the collections made during the Second Journey of Captain Sir John Franklin, nor do I possess it 

 except from Mr. Schweinitz. It is remarkable for its pale sulphur-<;olom*ed flowers, which Mr. Schweinitz 

 reckons by far the largest of the American kinds. It is probably the same with V. striata of Aiton ; but as we 

 know that species only from a very short and unsatisfactory character, the name ochroleuca of the plant so 

 admirably described by Schweinitz, is now uniyersally conceded to it. I quote the synonym of my friend Dr. 

 Richardson with a mark of doubt, partly because it does not exist in the collections of the Second Expedi- 

 tion, though very much of the same ground was travelled over, and partly because he describes the leaves as 

 covered " with numerous minute depressed brown dots," which is not the case with Schweinitz's original 

 specimens of ochroleuca; but which is so with the following species, one of the most abundant in the 

 present collections. 



13, V. Muhlenbergiana ; stigmate decurvo acuto, caulibus assurgeiitibus, foliis rotun- 

 dato-cordatis saepissime ferrugineo-punctatis seiTatis glabris, stipulis oblongo-lanceolatis 

 ciliato-dentatis, sepalis lineari-Ianceolatis, petalis duobus barbatis, cornu longiusculo. — 

 Ging. in De Cand, Prodr, v, \, p, 297. Le Conte in Ann. of Lye. N. Y. v. 2. p. 148. — V, 

 Muhlenbergii. Torrej/, Fl. of Un. St v. 1. p. 256. (fide ejus specim.) — V. asarifolia. 

 Mtihl. Cat. and V. uliginosa. MuhL et Schwein. (fide Torrey.) — V, punctata. Schwein, 

 V. canina. Walt. 



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fi. minor ; caulibus brevioribus. — V, debilis. Pursh^ Fl. Am, v. 1. p. 174. (excl. syn. 

 fide Torrey.) Schwein. Viol, in Sill. Journ. v. 5. p, 71. Mich, in Frankl. 1st Jaum. ed. 2. 

 App. />. 8. 



y. albiflora; caulibus brevissimis, foliis cordato-ovatis ovatisque dense pubescentibus, 

 floribus albis. 



Hab. Labrador, {Schweinitz,) and throughout Canada, as far north as lat. 59°, in the plains, {Dr. 

 Richardson.) North -West Coast. Mr. Menzies, /3. Frequent in the same countries, y. Prairies among the 

 Rocky Mountains, rare. Drummond. — Six to eight inches high, throwing out many spreading or assurgent 

 stems from the same root. Leaves in form, size, and stipules, very similar to the preceding; but here the 

 flowers are smaller, and blue, and the whole foliage and calyx (sometimes even the petals) are not unfre- 

 quently covered with minute brown dots, impressed on the under side of the leaf. Rarely the leaves are 

 slightly downy ; in y. exceedingly so all over, as well as the petioles. In a dried state, it is difficult to 

 point out satisfactory characters, by which this species may be distinguished from our V. canina, where 

 the leaves and even petals are in many of my specimens marked with similar dots. De CandoUe doubts 

 if his V. debilis he not a var. of canina. Indeed, I fear the North American ViolcB have been studied 

 with too little reference to the Europsean ones. This can only be satisfactorily done by cultivation and 

 comparison of the living specimens. 



14. V.rostrata; stigmate rostra to, rostro suberecto acuto nudo, caulibus simplicibus 

 decumbentibus, foliis cordatis glabris, stipulis lanceolatis ciliato-serratis, sepalis subulato- 

 lanceolatis glabris, calcare porrecto longissimo petala imberbia excedente. — Pursh, FL 

 Am. V. I. p. 174. Schwein. Viol, in Sill. Journ. v. 5. p. 73. Torrey, Fl. of Un. St v. I. p. 

 256, Le Conte in Ann. Lye. of N. Y. v. 2. p. 148. De Cand. Prodr. v. I. p. 298. 



Hab. Moist woods in Canada. Ze Conte. — Well distinguished by the exceedingly long horn or spur to 

 the flower. 



