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utmost pains to verify all compilations and to publish only what we 
have carefully studied and digested, we shall soon cheapen and dis- 
credit phytogeography as well. With two such splendid models 
constantly before him as Stone's Plants of Southern New Jersey! 
and the Connecticut Botanical Society's Catalogue of the Flowering 
Plants and Ferns of Connecticut,? it is most unfortunate that the author 
of the Flora of the Vicinity of New York did not rise to the standard of 
accurate scholarship which has rendered authoritative the pages of 
those monumental volumes.— M. L. FERNALD. 
VIOLA SEPTENTRIONALIS IN British CorLuMBIA.— In the Gray 
herbarium there are two interesting specimens of Viola septentrionalis 
from along the boundary line between Washington and British Colum- 
bia. One was collected “in marshes, Pend Oreille River," by Dr. 
Lyall, who accompanied the “ Oregon Boundary Commission " in 1861; 
it was sent to Dr. Gray from the Kew herbarium as V. cucullata. In 
Piper's Flora of Washington this is cited ? as V. cuspidata Greene — a 
synonym of V. sororia Willd., known no farther northwest than east- 
em Minnesota. Lyall's specimen is in petaliferous flower, and its 
strongly ciliate sepals, its lanceolate stipules sparsely bordered with 
gland-tipped hairs, and its cordate-deltoid leaf plainly mark it as V. 
septentrionalis instead of V. sororia. 
The second specimen is from the herbarium of the Geological 
Survey of Canada, no. 63,518, J. M. Macoun collector, June 30, 1902, 
“alluvial woods flooded in spring, Cascade B. C." — a town on the 
international boundary only 20 miles west of Dr. Lyall's station. 
Macoun's plant is in various stages of fruit from cleistogamous flowers, 
and is in all respects characteristic V. septentrionalis, as heretofore 
known from eastern Ontario to Newfoundland, south to Central New 
York and southern New England. 
If but one of these specimens were in evidence, the suspicion might 
arise that by some accident the label had become attached to the wrong 
specimen. But with two specimens from stations only 20 miles apart, 
collected independently by two expert botanists, the suspicion is 
inadmissible. The two reports are reciprocally confirmatory. More- 
over, for this remarkable extension of range there are numerous 
1 See Ruopora, xiv. 94 (1912). 
2 See Rnopona, xii. 131 (1910). 
3 Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11: 392. 
