VIOLET FAMILY 



The Smooth Yellow Violet, yiola scabruscula, with 

 smooth, clustered stems and leaves varying from 

 cordate-ovate to reniform, has yellow flowers about the 

 same size as those of Vidla pubescens. In some localities 

 it blooms a httle earlier. The petals are veined with 

 purple. The spur is short and the sepals linear-lanceo- 

 late. It prefers moist woods to dry, and its range 

 extends from Nova Scotia to Manitoba, south to 

 Georgia and Texas. Common in northern Ohio. 



CANADA VIOLET 



Viola Canadensis 



Perennial, having stems, flowers white tinged with 

 purple. Rich woods. Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, 

 south to North CaroHna. Abundant in northern Ohio. 

 April, May. 



Steins. — Tufted, leafy, six to eighteen inches high. 



Leaves. — Heart-shaped, pointed, serrate, short-petioled. 



Flowers. — White with purplish tinge and purple veins; 

 the lateral petals bearded; the long sepals tapering to 

 sharp points; spur short; slightly fragrant. 



"A violet in her greenwood bower 



WTiere birchen boughs with hazel mingle, 

 May boast itseK the fairest flower 

 In glen or copse or forest dingle." 



— Sir Walter Scott. 



The Canada Violet is in truth a nursling of the 

 forest and loves the woods. Latest of Violets to bloom, 

 at first the blooming stem is from six to tvrelve 



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