CREAM VIOLET 



inches high, but in midsummer indivickials may be 

 found in deep recesses of northern woods which have 

 shouldered their way 

 upward among the 

 bushes of a thicket, 

 resting here and cHng- 

 ing there until they 

 are more than three 

 feet high and still in 

 bloom. The stem is 

 slender, strong, and 

 rather leafy; the 

 flowers have a delicate 

 beauty all their own, 

 pure white, yellow- 

 centred, marked with 

 purple lines above, 

 and violet-washed 



beneath. Canada Violet. Viola Canadensis 



CREAM VIOLET. PALE VIOLET. STRIPED VIOLET 



Viola striata 



Perennial, having stems, flowers cream-white. Moist 

 woods and fields. New England west to Minnesota, and 

 south to Georgia. Abundant in northern Ohio. April- 

 October. 



Stem. — Erect or spreading, tufted, smooth, six to ten 

 inches long in late summer. 



Leaves. — Numerous, heart-shaped or ovate, crenately 

 serrate, acute or acuminate, often sHghtly downy above 

 and on the veins underneath; when young, the sides 

 curled in at the base; stipules large, oblong-lanceolate, 

 fringe-toothed. 



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