1905] Brainerd,— Notes on New England Violets,— II 3 
The plant from Bridgeport, Connecticut, is also in my judgment 
incorrectly referred to V. Movae-Angliae. The fact that the two 
stations are at the opposite ends of New England, 500 miles apart, is 
suspicious. But the leaves of Dr. Eames's plant are much wider and 
less cordate at the base than Mr. Fernald’s ; the sepals are narrowly 
lanceolate, some of them ciliate and with long hispidulous auricles, 
betraying, to my mind, traits inherited both from V. cucullata and 
from Y. fimbriatu/a. In short, the plant is the same, so far as the 
characters are developed in the vernal stage, as those that I have 
regarded (RHODORA, vi. 217, 218) as resulting from a cross between 
these two species. The hybrid proves to be not uncommon in 
southern Connecticut, as I have received it recently from three 
stations other than those cited in RHODORA. 
The remaining plant referred to V. Vovae-Angliae by Mr. House 
was collected by Mr. Pollard on the Blue Hill Reservation near 
Boston. In leaf-outline these specimens have a closer resemblance 
to the Fort Kent plant than have those from either Bridgeport or 
Orono; but in fact they are only small seedlings of V. fimbriatula. 
Two of these young plants at the date of collection, Aug. 24, had 
already produced cleistogamous flowers, but the two green cap- 
sules shown are borne on erect peduncles 6-7 cm. long, not on 
“short horizontal" ones, “ 1.5—2.5 cm. long,” as in V. Vovae-Angliae. 
The slender sepals, the long somewhat hispidulous auricles, the 
denser pubescence, the relatively shorter leaf-blades, the more 
obscure crenation, all point to V. fimbriatula. 
The new species, then, seems to be known only from the two sta- 
tions along the River St. John, on the northern boundary of Maine. 
Judging from its associations and its affinity to V. septentrionalis, it is 
more likely to befound hereafter northward or eastward, in Quebec 
or in New Brunswick, than southward in New England as a whole. 
The name V. Vovae-Angliae, consequently, turns out to be some- 
what unfortunate. 
The other new species of Viola for northern New England is more 
widely distributed. It has been found at four stations in Maine and 
four in Vermont,— in mossy bogs, along streams in silt or gravel, or 
in the wet debris of cliffs. It is ordinarily a small plant, in its vernal 
state not easily distinguished from Y. affinis; but later it develops 
leaves that are broader than in that species, less conspicuously cre- 
nate, and cleistogamous fruit that is green instead of purple. In 
