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closely resembles that of V. pubescens but differs in size, shape, 
proportionate width and length and the toothing. It may be of 
interest to note that I have seen the type of V. wipartita on 
several occasions and have collected specimens almost iden- 
tical with it on Stone Mountain, which is no great distance 
_ from the original locality, Athens, Georgia. I have also received 
excellent and typical specimens from Mr. A. M. Huger, collected 
in Polk County, North Carolina, and a series of specimens show- 
ing all degrees of gradation from the simple-leaved state to the 
trifoliolate leaf, from Mr. E. R. Memminger, who independently 
came to the conclusion that the affinities of V. “#ipartita are with 
V. pubescens and not with V. haséata. 
I append a description taken from living plants. 
VIOLA TRIPARTITA Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: ea6. F847, 
Viola hastata var. tripartita A. Gray, Bot.Gaz. 11: 291. 1886. 
Perennial by a short rootstock and numerous coarse roots, 
usually stoutish, puberulent or minutely pilose and glandular 
above, bright but often deep green. Stems mostly clustered, 
erect, 1.5-5 dm. tall, usualiy branched above, often purplish and 
glabrate below, greenish, glandular, and somewhat glandular near 
the top; leaves 3-parted or sometimes entire, 4-10 cm. long, their 
petioles 2-3 cm. long; stipules ovate, ciliate, 6-8 mm. long; leaf- 
lets usually short-petioled, puberulent, undulate or crenate-serrate, 
the terminal one lanceolate or oblanceolate, the lateral ones 
inequilateral lanceolate to ovate; flowers golden yellow, 1.2-1.5 
cm. broad; pedicels slender, nearly erect, 3-10 cm. long; sepals 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, nearly 6 mm. long, 3-ribbed, acute 
or obtuse, with hyaline ciliolate margins; petals spatulate, about I 
cm. long, the upper ones recurved, purplish on the back, with one 
conspicuous black vein, the lateral ones with two black veins anda 
patch of glands, the lower one with numerous conspicuous black 
veins; stigma bearded; capsule oblong, 1-1.2 cm. long, acutish ; 
Seeds pale, obovoid, 3 mm. long. 
IV. MELOTHRIA GRANDIFOLIA T. & G., AND ITS TRUE POSITION. 
Melothria grandifolia, published by Torrey and Gray in 1849, 
soon disappeared from the pages of succeeding botanical works 
and in Prof. Cogniaux’s Monograph of the Cucurbitaceae* we 
find the name in an appended list of doubtful species. The 
apparent rarity of the species, or at least the scarcity of speci- 
nonin 
* DC. Monog. Phanerog. 3: 948. 
