00 Pollard Violets of the Atlantic Coast. 



the plant from V. ovata Nutt., with which it is always confounded. 

 Both species have the first three or four leaves oval and entire 

 or merely crenate, but before flowering, V. ovata puts forth its 

 characteristic strongly pubescent or even villous foliage, the regu 

 larly shaped, almost entire, ovate-elliptical leaves never becom 

 ing so elongated as to exceed either flowering or fruiting scape. 



Viola ovata Nuttall is V. ciliata of Muhlenberg's Catalogue,* 

 well described and differentiated afterward by Darlington and 

 other writers and retained by Torrey and Gray as a variety of 

 sagittata. The plant which I last year described as another va 

 riety of sagittate, under the name of Hicksii,^ is much closer to 

 ovata than to the true sagittata as now understood, and I take 

 this opportunity of indicating its transfer, retaining it under the 

 varietal name. Dr. Robinson, in the Synoptical Flora above 

 quoted, J remarks in connection with this form that the recurved 

 fruiting peduncles and distinctly mottled seeds u are not infre 

 quently associated with quite different foliage." However this 

 may be, specimens have been sent to Prof. C. F. Wheeler, of 

 Michigan, and to Dr. T. J. W. Burgess, of Canada, both of whom 

 have admitted it to be distinct from what they are accustomed 

 to regard as typical sagittata. We have it in the National Her 

 barium from Pennsylvania and from Sussex county, New Jer 

 sey, in addition to the original locality near Pierce's Mill, in the 

 District of Columbia. 



Pursh's Viola dentata, here reinstated, is a plant to which my 

 attention was called by Dr. Britton some time ago as a species 

 of marked validity. The leaves in this plant are glabrous and 

 somewhat flaccid, deltoid-cordate, or even panduriform in out 

 line, irregularly crenate, and in general so unlike those of the 

 ordinary violets with which it is associated that it has been con 

 sidered a hybrid. Le Conte pointed out these characters, under 

 his name of etnarginata , sixteen years after Pursh's original pub 

 lication. The plant is mainly of southern range. A typical 

 specimen of it, collected by Dr. John K. Small in northern Geor 

 gia in 1895, is to be found in the herbarium of Columbia Uni 

 versity. In the National Herbarium the species is represented 

 by a plant found in the District of Columbia by Dr. Vasey. 



It will be observed that eight species of the eastern acaulescent 



*Muhl. Cat., 26, 1813, without synonymy or description. 

 tCoult. Bot. Gaz., 20:326, 1895. 

 J I, 1 : 197, foot-note. 



