94 Rhodora [Mav 
angles, very slender, soon exposed to view for half or two-thirds its 
length: lateral petals 4-6 mm. broad.— Native of the coast region 
from Washington to California; becoming naturalized on PRINCE 
EDWARD ISLAND: overrunning Sherwood Cemetery, near Brackley 
Station, L. W. Watson, July, 1913. 
L. NooTKATENSIS Donn. Stout, subsimple or branched, 3-6 dm. 
high: stem and petioles loosely and densely villous: leaves with the 
6-8 oblanceolate mucronate leaflets 2.5-5.5 em. long, densely villous 
beneath, rather villous above: stipules linear-setaceous, 1.5-3 em. | 
long, persistent: raceme becoming 1-3 dm. long: keel broad and 
gradually curved, not much exposed: lateral petals 8-11 mm. broad.— 
Native from Alaska to Vancouver Island; naturalized in Newfound- 
land and Nova Scotia. NEWFOUNDLAND: very abundant and over- 
running the cemetery, Clarenville, August 19, 1911, Fernald & 
Wiegand, no. 5784. Nova Scoria: roadsides, Chebogue Point, May 
29, 1910, C. H. Young, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 81,283. 
L. potypHyLius Lindl. Stout, simple, 7.5-12 dm. high: stem 
minutely and sparingly pubescent or glabrate: lower leaves on petioles 
3-7 dm. long: leaflets 10-17, oblanceolate, acuminate, 6-14 cm. long, 
1.5-3.5 em. broad, glabrous or sparingly pilose: racemes becoming 
2.5-6 dm. long: keel hidden, broad and gradually curved: lateral 
petals 6-8 mm. broad.— Native from western British Columbia to 
California; naturalized on Prince EDWARD ISLAND: dry thickets 
and banks along Brackley Point Road, August 1, 1912, F ernald, Long & 
St. John, no. 7678. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
VIOLA SELKIRKII IN COLORADO. 
E. R. Cross. 
In the summer of 1912 I received from Mr. C. F. Leach of Sedalia, 
Colo., a few pressed leaves of a violet new to me. It seemed so ob- 
viously related to the group of small white-flowered Violae, that I was 
at first inclined to identify it with Viola blanda Willd. Later fruiting 
specimens and the discovery of large numbers in blossom the follow- 
ing spring proved it to be V. Selkirkii Pursh, a species not before 
accredited to Colorado. 
So far as I have been able to discover, its occurrence in this region 
is extremely local. The three known colonies are miles apart with 
prominent watersheds intervening, and probably mark for the species 
