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to identify this with V. dentata, Pursh, and Mr. Pollard has accepted 

 this name for his plant in the Pritton Manual. Whether there is 

 sufficient warrant for this identification or not, I am confident that 

 the Bushkill plant will prove to be a not infrequent hybrid between 

 V. ciicunata and V. fimbriatula. 



I would cite as further instances the following specimens : Dry- 

 ish hillside in open woods, Cumberland, Me., June 27, 1902, {E. B. 

 Chamberlain, N. E. Club Hb.) ; Jaffrey, N. H., July 25, 1896, 

 {Walter Deane, N. E. Club Hb.) ; Jaffrey, N. H., July 4, 1897, 

 {B. L. Robinson, no. 657 Gray Hb.), "Transitional form between 

 V. fimbriatula -AXvA {^) V. cucu/lata" \ Dry woodland, Indian woods. 

 East Lyme, Ct., June 19, 1900, {C. B. Graves, 119, Gray Hb. and 

 Hb. E. B.); Granby, Ct., July 10, 1903, {C. E. Bissell, no. 8299); 

 Stafford, Ct., Aug. 26, 1903 {C. E. Bissell, no. 8269). 



3. Viola sororia x fimbriatula. This plant first attracted 

 my attention in May, 1902, growing at the base of a ledge in a 

 neglected pasture. The foliage and the color of the fiowers at once 

 distinguished it from the plants of V. fimbriatula with which it was 

 intermingled. At the same time its narrow leaves and prominent 

 stipules separated it from V. sororia which grew about twenty feet 

 distant. I took but few specimens, as the colony was not a large 

 one ; some of these I sent to Mr. Pollard, querying if it might not be 

 a hybrid. He considered it more probably a new species. I have fre- 

 quently visited the station since, and find that the fruit shows unmis- 

 takable marks of V. sororia. The plant much resembles V. fimbria- 

 tula X septentrionalis; but the less ciliate sepals and their smaller 

 appressed auricles serve to distinguish it. It is less sterile than most 

 hybrids, but I have never found a capsule that contained more than 

 half the normal number of seeds. 



I place with this specimens collected in Alstead, N. H., July 15, 

 1899, by Mr. Fernald (no. 335, Gray Hb. & N. E. Club Hb.). I 

 would also call attention to a quite similar plant collected by Mr. 

 Witmer Stone at Media, Pa. (no. 5147) and at Chadd's Ford, Pa., 

 July 5, 1903 (no. 5150), and published by him as V. fimbriatula 

 aberrans (Proceed. Acad. Natural Sci. Philad., Oct., 1903, p. 683, 

 PI. xxxvii, fig. 4-6.) Mr. Stone writes, regarding his 5150, "1 think 

 V. papilionacea did grow in the vicinity; V. fimbriatula was tiiere in 

 abundance; and my surmise was that my plants were hybrids between 

 the two." I refer to this plant here, as V. sororia and V. papilionacea 



