156 Rhodora [May 
The plant of New England, however, is decidedly stouter. The 
stipules are also deeply cleft but the divisions are less numerous and 
more pinnate in their arrangement. The flowers are larger, and the 
petals, which are pale yellow (the upper sometimes with a faint tinge 
of lavender), scarcely if at all exceed the relatively large sepals. An 
examination of specimens and plates of the Old World material of 
related forms convinces me that this is just the plant figured as V. 
arvensis, Murr., in the English Botany, t. 2712, in the Flora Danica, 
t. 1748, and Reichenbach’s Icones Florae Germanicae, t. 4517, 
figures which are accepted as representative of V. arvensis, Murr., 
by such critical students of Viola as Messrs. Rouy and Foucaud in 
their exhaustive subdivision of the violets of France.! 
This violet, in America at least, shows no tendency to intergrade 
with V. tricolor, L., nor with V. Rafinesquit, Greene. 
To date I have seen specimens of V. arvensis from the following 
American localities. NEWFOUNDLAND: on rocky bare slopes of hills 
immediately back of habitations in the poorer suburbs of St. John's, 
Robinson & von Schrenk, no. 19o. Maine: in an old field, Orono, 
Fernald; in a rich field, North Berwick, Parlin, no. 654. Massa- 
chusetts: abundant in an old field, Cambridge, Fernald; Medford 
Street, Somerville, C. E. Perkins; Northampton, Mrs. E. H. Terry, 
CONNECTICUT: sandy wastes along the beach, Black Rock, Bridge- 
port, Hames; in a garden (without cultivation), Southington, 55e. 
New York: Oak Point, Buchheister. 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
1 F], de France, iii. 1 to 58. 
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