Harper: Flora of Middle Georgia 337 



Creek, Clarke Co. Altitude about 625* ft. This is one of the 

 easternmost stations for this species, and seems to be also the 

 northernmost known, with the exception of the type locality in 

 Kentucky. 



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Viola hastata Mx. FL Bon Am. 2 : 149. 1803 



Until within a few years Athens was the only known station in 

 Georgia for this rare species. I have found it in one locality in 

 the city, in low rich woods, at an altitude of about 600 feet, which 

 is probably the lowest altitude at which it has been collected. I 

 secured two flowering specimens in March and April, 1897, at 

 which time there were perhaps a dozen individuals in all. 



Viola tripartita Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1 : 302. 1817; Small, 



Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 497, Nov., 1897 



V. hastata var. tripartita Gray, Bot. Gaz. 11 : 291. 1886. 



Elliott (/. c.) describes this species, as also the preceding, "from 

 specimens collected near Athens, Georgia, by Mr. Green.' ' I have 

 found it quite abundant in rich woods in several parts of the city. 

 This species was long considered a variety or " aberrant form " of 

 V. hastata, but it could never have been so considered by any one 

 who was familiar with the two species in the field ; and Dr. Small 

 has recently pointed out some of the many differences between 

 them. I had opportunity to compare the two species in the living 

 state in the spring of 1897, anc * was impressed with their total dis- 

 similarity. There is, however, a form which in the herbarium 

 appears on superficial examination to be somewhat intermediate 

 between the two, but its affinities are clearly with tripartita. This 



form is Viola tripartita glaberrima ( V. hastata var. glabcrrima 



Ging.; DC. Prodr. 1 : 300. 1824; Chapm. Fl. S. States, ed. 3, 

 34. 1897). It differs from typical tripartita in having leaves all 

 undivided and glabrous, but is in other respects very similar. It 

 seems to extend farther south than the type, and is the plant 

 which was taken for V. hastata in Florida. I have collected it in 

 rich woods near the Middle Oconee river, about two miles south- 

 east of Athens, in 1896 and 1897. Like V. tripartita, with which 

 it is perhaps connected by intermediate forms, its leaves are con- 

 spicuously plicate, a character which distinguishes it at once from 

 V. hastata in the field, but is not evident in herbarium specimens. 



