98 Class V. Order L 



serrate ; peduncles as long as the leaves ; stipules 

 short, entire. 



A large species often more than a foot in height. Leaves 

 heart shaped, the largest ones strongly acuminate, the lower 

 ones acute or obtuse, in some plants all obtuse. Flowers parti- 

 coloured, the two upper petals purple without, the lower petals 

 pale. In woods, Windsor and Woodstock, Vermont. June. 



VIOLA PUBESCENS. Ait. Yellow Violet. 



Stem erect, villous ; leaves heart-shaped, pubes- 

 cent ; stipules oblong, serrulate at tip. Ait. abr. 



Syn. VIOLA PENXSTLVANICA. Mich. 



Stem simple, pubescent, somewhat triangular. Leaves alter- 

 nate, broad heart shaped or deltoid, with a tapering base, point- 

 ed, crenate, hairy, longer than their petioles. Stipules large, 

 unequally ovate, serrate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, hairy, 

 furnished with two subulate bractes. Calyx smoothish. Petals 

 yellow, streaked with dark purple, and slightly bearded inside. 

 On the Concord turnpike, Cambridge. June. 



102. CLAYTONIA. 



CLAYTONIA VIRGINICA. L. Linear Claytonia. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate ; racemes solitary ; calyx 

 acute ; petals obovate, retuse ; root tuberous. 



A delicate spring flower chiefly found in old moist woods. 

 Stem about six inches high with a pair of opposite linear leaves 

 about half way up. Racemes bearing about a dozen flowers on 

 slender pedicels an inch long. Calyx subacute. Corolla white 

 veined with purple. In Connecticut. May. Perennial. 



CLAYTONIA SPATHULATA. ? Pursh. Broad leaved Claytonia. 

 Leaves spatulate ; raceme solitary ; calyx obtuse : 

 petals roundish, retuse ; root tuberous. 



Specimens gathered by Mr. Boott on the Camel's Rump moun- 

 tain in Vermont, agree tolerably well with the foregoing cha- 

 racter. The root leaves are spatulate and obtuse ; those of the 

 stem opposite, lance-oval, and subacute 



