Violecese, Violet Family. 
lierbs with alternate or basal simple leaves, bearings stivules, 
Flowers perfect, zygomorphic, Sepals and »etals 5, the petals imbricate 
in the bud, the lowermost spurred or saccate at the base, Stamens 5, the 
anthers more or less joined over the pistil., Pistil 1, the style club-shaped, 
Fruit a l-chambered, S-valved gaping capsule, each valve bearing a parietal 
placenta along the middle, 
Viola (Tourn.) Le Violet. 
Low oerennial herbs, the le:xves either alternate orn more or less erect 
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rootstocls, lowers of tvo kinds, those of the spring showy, wit! both calyx 
and vetals, those of the summer (cleistogzamous) inconspicuous, hypogeous, the 
petels rudimentary or wantinge Sepals 5, the bases vroduced into auricles, 
Petals 5, yellow, or blue, the lowest usually spurred. stamens 5, more or 
less united, the two lower nectar-bearing avpendages projecting into the’ spur. 
o Petals yellow ; 
2 Plants with manifest stems, erect, 15-40 cm, tall; flovers 
G axillary in the upner leaves le Ve glabella 
2 Plants with shert rootstocks, the leaves in a2 basal tuft, 
or creeping and rooting at the nodes, rarely more than 
10 cme Gall 
4 Stems creening, stoloniferous; leaves obscurely mottled 
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m with minute irrecular spots Oe Ve sommervirens 
4 Stems not creening, plants tufted, stolons few or none; 
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lesves evenly green throvrhout Oe Ve orbiculata 
oO Petals blue, lavendcr or white 
