220 Rhodora [November 



Station, growing with both parents. But I have failed to discover the 

 plant in any of our large herbaria. However, the fact that K 

 scptentrionalis is unknown south of New England, and that V. affinis 

 is apparently wanting in eastern New England, would seem to account 

 sufficiently for the non-appearance of the hybrid outside of the 

 Champlain Valley. 



5. Viola .sEPTENTRiONALis X cucullata.— This is another hybrid 

 necessarily restricted to northern regions. I have found single plants 

 at three widely separated stations, always associated with the parent 

 forms. At one of these stations near Silver Lake, Leicester, Vt., I 

 observed in a large assemblage of V. cucullata one plant with broad- 

 petaled violet flowers, strikingly distinct from the other flowers. An 

 examination of the leaves showed decided traces of pubescence. I 

 transferred the plant to the garden, where it has since produced 

 apetalous flowers and fruit in abundance. The long somewhat his- 

 pidulous sepals display qualities inherited from both parents, but the 

 capsule bears only from one to six seeds. Lest it may be surmised 

 that the moving of these plants has caused this sterility, I would here 

 state that I have the past season transplanted several individuals of 

 each of the five species under discussion when they were in flower 

 and later, that they have afterward fruited in abundance, and that I 

 have never found upon them a capsule that was not plump and 

 crowded with 40-70 seeds. Violets are transplanted with the great- 

 est ease, if set in moist shaded soil, and grow luxuriantly under 

 proper culture. 



I received last May from Mr. Watson of Charlottetown, P. E. I., 

 live specimens of V. jnelissae/olia, Greene (Pitt. v. 103) from the 

 type station. As these plants developed in the summer, they turned 

 out to be a good match for the Silver Lake plant that I had also un- 

 der cultivation. The leaves had the same scanty finely appressed 

 pubescence and ciliation, the petioles the same sparse villose hairs, 

 the capsules the same narrow slightly hispidulous sepals and the 

 same paucity of seeds. The closing sentence of Prof. Greene's note 

 shows that the plant suggested to his mind both of the species here 

 regarded as the parent forms. 



I also place here without much hesitation a remarkably robust 

 plant, collected only in petaliferous flower: "Sandy interval. Fort 

 Kent, Me., June 16, 1898" {M. L. Fernald, no. 2254, Gray Hb. and 

 N. E. Club Hb.). It has peduncles somewhat longer than the 



