Vol. XV, pp. 201-203 October 10, 1902 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



TWO NEW VIOLETS FROM THE EASTERN UNITED 



STATES.* 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD. 



Viola tenuipes. 



Stem simple, erect, 8-L5 cm. high, from a short horizontal or ascend- 

 ing knotted rootstock emitting numerous long, thick fibrous roots; 

 leaves, 3 to 5, usually 4, borneat the summitof the stem; blades glabrate, 

 ovate-lanceolate or hastate-lanceolate, with a truncate base and acute 

 apex, the margins repand-denticulate; stipules ovate, membranaceous: 

 petiole 1-L5 cm. long, appreciably shorter than the blade; flowers on 

 filiform peduncles exceeding the leaves; sepals irregular, from linear- 

 ovate to linear; corolla yellow, L5 cm. broad, the petals narrow, beard- 

 less, and quite free from markings; capsules smooth, ovoid. 



In dry soil, northern Georgia and Alabama to Florida. Type from, 

 Chattalioochee, Florida, March, 1897 in the Chapman herbarium, now 

 the property of the Biltmore herbarium. The type sheet is a remark- 

 ably full one, bearing twelve individuals of uniform size and characters 

 except that the rootstock of one of these produces two stems in place of 

 a solitary one. A photograph of the type sheet is deposited in the U. S. 

 National Herbarium. The species is also Avell represented by collections 

 made at Auburn, Alabama, April 11, 1899, by Mrs. F. S. Earle; at Cull- 

 man, Alabama, May 1, 1901, by representatives of the Biltmore Herbarium; 

 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, by Professor Lester F. Ward; and at Rome, 

 Georgia, by Dr. Chapman. 



*Published here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. 



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