( 1795 ) 

 Viola cucullata. Hollow-leaved Violet. 



Class and Order. 



Pentandria Monogynia. 



(Syngenesia Monogamia. Linn.) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis, postice cornuta. 

 Anih. cohasrentes. Caps, supera, 3-valvis, 1-locularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Viola cucullata; acaulis, glabra, foliis cordatis acutis basi 

 cucullatis serratis, petalis lateralibus basi barbatis. 



Viola cucullata ; acaulis, foliis cordatis acutiusculis glabris 

 basi cucullatis, floribus ' inversis, petalis oblique flexis. 

 Hort. Kew. cd. 1™" 3. p. 288.—ed. alt. % p. 44. JVUld. 

 Sp. Pi I. p. 1162. PersoonSyn.l.p.254. Mart. Mill. 

 Diet. n. 7. 



Viola cucullata, glabra ; foliis cordatis glabris serratis basi 

 cucullatis, pedunculis longitudine petiolorum, petalis ob- 

 lique flexis : lateralibus barbatis. Pursh Ft. Amer. Sept. 

 I. p. 173. 



Viola cucidlata is a native of North- America, and was 

 first described by Dr. Solander in Aiton's Hortus Kewensis; 

 where we are informed, that it was introduced in the year 

 1772, by Dr. Samuel Martin. 



It was an early inhabitant of Mr. Curtis's first Botanic 

 Garden, at Lambeth-Marsh, where we well remember this 

 accurate observer pointed out to us, that the flowers which 

 appeared in the spring were uniformly barren ; but that later 

 in the summer apetalous flowers were produced upon very 

 short scapes, which were as constantly fertile. The produc- 

 tion of apetalous fertile flowers was first observed in the 



Viola 



