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Viola aurea, Kellogg, 1. c. ii. 185. 



V. purpurea, Kellogg, 1. c. i. 56. 



Y. aurea var. venosa, Watson. — V. purpurea is much the 

 older, but a very inappropriate name for a yellow violet, and 

 as it has gone into circulation, and no injustice is done to 

 the author, it is left undisturbed. 



V. Averyi, Kellogg, Pac. Kural Press, May 31st, 1879. 

 Specimen missing from the herbarium, but evidently V. Pa- 

 trini, DC. var Chinensis, and possibly a good species, but ma- 

 terial for comparison lacking. The original description is 

 given below: 



A NEW CHINESE VIOLET. 



The late Hon B. P. Avery, United States Minister at the Court of China, 

 collected on the great Chinese wall a violet, unknown to the West, which we 

 dedicate to the memory of our amiable and accomplished citizen: 



Viola Averii.— Plant stemless, minutely scabrous throughout; leaves 

 oblong-obtuse, often a little narrowed above, abruptly decurreut into the 

 petiole, or rarely subcordate. about half the length of the peduncles —one to 

 two inches long, one-half inch or so broad, crenate toothed, lamina about 

 twice the length of the petiole, mostly three-nerved; stipules linear-lance, 

 entire, or sparingly denticulate from a three to five-nerved membranous ex- 

 panded base of the petiole; peduncles longer than the leaves, somewhat 

 striate, bracteoles opposite, or alternate near the middle, linear-lance to sub- 

 late, entire, or denticulate; sepals three- nerved, lanceolate-ovate, acute or 

 sub-acute; flowers with somewhat erect aspect, blue-veined or lined, and 

 violet-tinted, spur short, s raght, obtuse, lateral petals obovate-obtuse, or 

 rounded, quite naked; style short, clavate-capitate— urceoloid, foramen sub- 

 lipped or beaked, glabrous; capsules ovoid, immature. 



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Viola chrysantha, var. Ne.vadensis, Kellogg, 1. c. ii. 229. 

 Scarcely differing from the ordinary form. 



V. decora, Kellogg, Pacific Rural Press, May 31st, 1879. 

 V. Beckwithh, Torr. & Gray. A form with all the petals 

 blue. 



V. Brooksii, Kellogg, Cal. Horticulturist, Sept. 1879. 

 Probably a good species; certainly not V. aurea as sug- 

 gested by Mr. Watson, in Bot. Cal. ii. 433. The descrip- 



