VIOLACEAE. 



VOL II 



39. Viola canadensis L. Canada Violet. 

 Fig. 2961. 



Viola canadensis L. Sp. PI. 936. 1753. 



Usually 8'-i6' high, glabrous or but sparsely 

 and minutely pubescent ; leaves broadly ovate, 

 cordate, acuminate or acute, serrate; stipules 

 sharply lanceolate ; flowers single from the axils 

 of cauline leaves, often appearing throughout the 

 season; sepals subulate, spreading; inner surface 

 of petals white above, bright yellow at the base, 

 the outside more or less tinged with violet, the 

 three lower striped with fine dark lines, the lat- 

 eral pair bearded ; capsules ovoid to subglobose, 

 3"-S" long, often downy or puberulent; seeds 

 brown, i" long. 



In mountain forests or wooded uplands, New 

 Brunswick to Saskatchewan, south to South Caro- 

 lina, Alabama, Nebraska, and in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains to Arizona and New Mexico. Ascends to 4000 

 ft. in Virginia. American sweet violet. Hens. June- 

 flower. May-July. 



40. Viola striata Ait. Pale or Striped Violet. 

 Fig. 2962. 



Viola striata Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 290 1789. 



Stems several, angular, leafy, ascending, 6'-i2' 

 long when in flower, in late summer often 2 long, 

 decumbent; leaves glabrous or nearly so, orbicular 

 to ovate, cordate, i'-ii' wide, usually acuminate, 

 finely crenate-serrate ; stipules large, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, fimbriate ; flowers long-peduncled ; sepals cilio- 

 late, linear-lanceolate, attenuate; corolla white or 

 cream-colored; spur thick, blunt, about 2" long; 

 style somewhat bearded below the beak; capsules 

 ovoid, glabrous, 2"-$' long; seeds light brown. 



Low and shady ground, New York to Minnesota, south 

 to Georgia and Missouri. Ascends to 3000 ft. in Vir- 

 ginia. April-May. 



41. Viola conspersa Reichenb. American Dog Violet. Fig.- 2963. 



V. conspersa Reichenb. Ic. Crit. i : 44. 1823. 

 Viola Muhlenbergii Torr. Fl. U. S. i : 256. 1824. 



Glabrous ; rootstock oblique, often much 

 branched; stems $-6' high at time of vernal 

 flowering; lower leaves orbicular, cordate, 

 crenate-serrate, obtuse, becoming f'-ii' wide; 

 the upper somewhat smaller, subacuminate ; 

 s f ipules ovate-lanceolate, serrately ciliate espe- 

 cially toward the base ; flowers numerous, usu- 

 ally pale violet, sometimes white, raised above 

 the leaves on axillary peduncles 2'-$' long; 

 cleistogamous flowers in summer on short 

 peduncles from the same axils that bore vernal 

 flowers, or from axils of later leaves of the 

 lengthened stems ; style bent downward at the 

 tip and slightly hairy; seeds light brown. 



Low or shaded ground, Quebec to Minnesota, 

 south to the mountains of northern Georgia. Re- 

 garded as not distinct from the following species 

 in the first edition of this work. April-May. 

 Early blue violet. 



