248 Rhodora [DECEMBER 
* * Cleistogamous capsules ovoid, commonly brownish purple, subtended by 
ovate-lanceolate sepals ; seeds brown, 1.6-2 mm. long; peduncles hori- 
zontal or deflexed.— Usually in cold rich woodlands. 
4. V. BLANDA, Willd. Glabrous except for minute white hairs on 
the upper surface of the leaves, especially the basal lobes; leaves 
cordate-ovate, acute or acuminate; petioles and scapes usually 
spotted with red; petals all beardless, the upper pair often long, nar- 
row, and strongly reflexed, sometimes twisted; usually in flower 1o- 
20 days later than the two following species.— Hort. Berol. t. 24 
(1804); V. amoena, LeConte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ii. 144 (1828); Y. 
Leconteana, G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 324 (1831); V. blanda, var. palus- 
triformis, Gray, Bot. Gaz. xi. 255 (1886); V. alsophila, Greene, Pitt. 
iv. 7 (1899).— Quebec to Minnesota, and south to Georgia and Ala- 
bama. 
5- V. incognita, n. sp. Peduncles, petioles and lower surface of 
leaves pubescent with soft white hairs especially when young, the 
upper leaf-surface glabrous or nearly so; aestival leaves large, rugose, 
broadly cordate-ovate, acute; lateral petals bearded, upper pair obo- 
vate; flowering early. — Type in Hb. Gray from wooded slopes of 
Moosalamoo Mountain, Salisbury, Vermont, May 5, 1903, and 
August 14, 1905.— Common from eastern Quebec and Prince 
Edward’s Island westward and southward through the mountains of 
northern and western New England. 
6. V. RENIFOLIA, Gray. More or less pubescent, but upper sur- 
face of reniform leaves often quite glabrous; petals all beardless, the 
upper pair orbicular; flowering early. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 288 
(1870); V. Brainerdit, Greene, Pitt. v. 89 (1902), in part. — New- 
foundland to the Mackenzie River, south to New England, New 
York, Michigan and Minnesota. 
MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT. 
