250 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNlA. VioLi. 



triangular, smooth. Seeds small, globular, attached to th® 

 valves along the middle. 

 Uab. On rocky hills and in dry woods. May. 



2. V. palmata L. : pubescent ; leaves cordate, (rarely 

 entire) palmate or hastate- lobed ; lobes crenate and toothed, 

 the middle one much the largest ; 2 lateral petals bearded ; 

 stigma margined, depressed. IV ill d. Spec. 1. p. 1159. 

 Schw. Viol. I.e. p. 51. Pursh Fl.l. p. 172. Muhl. Cat. 

 p. 25. Elliott Sk. I. p. 300. NxLtt. Gen. 1. p. 147. 

 Roem. <^ Schult. V. p. 350. 



Root thick, fleshy. Primary leaves somewhat reniform-cordate, 

 often undivided, more or less pubescent, never smooth, some- 

 times almost woolly ; secondary ones more or less divided in a 

 palmate manner ; the exterior lobes 2 — 3-cleft ; petioles 

 slightly margined, smooth or hairy. Stipules lanceolate, sub- 

 citiate. Scape about as long as the leaves, with 2 minute 

 bracts about the mMdle. Floiver middle-sized, blue ; lateral 

 petals obuvate, conspicuously bearded towards the base ; the 

 others smooth; inferior petal carinate, vtined with purple. 

 Segments of the calyx lanceolate, acute, smooth, slightly ciliate 

 on the margin. Stipiia recurved, rostrate. 



Hab. In swamps and low grounds; common. May. 



A very variable species. The leaves are frequently co- 

 loured with purple beneath* 



3. V. sagittala A i t. : leaves oblong, acute, cordate-sa- 

 gittate, serrate, incised at the base ; flowers inverted ; infe- 

 rior petal smooth, the rest bearded. Ji t. Ktw. ill, p. 287. 

 S c h w. Viol. 1. c. p. 56. Willd. Spec. I , p. 1 1 60. Pursh 

 F/.I.p.l72. Big. Bast. p. GO. E 1 1 1 o t t Sk. ]. p. 299. 

 JVtf n. Gm. 1. p. 147. Roem. ir Schult. Y.-p. 3b2. V. 

 dmtnta Pursh I.e. 



Root short, thick. Leaves somewhat pubescent on the upper 

 surface, crenate-dentate, incised, and often hastate at the base ; 

 petioles ab<.ut as long as the leaves. Stipules linear, smo^'th. 

 Scape generally longer than the leaves ; bracts subulate, op- 

 posite or alternate. Flower middle-sized, purplish-blue ; pe- 

 tals oblmg-obuvate, all of them, except the inferior one, 

 bearded with wliite ; spur short, very obtuse. Sligtna rostrate, 

 depressed, margined. 



Hab. On hills and in fields. April — May. 



p. emarginata J^ u t i. : leaves almost triangular, lace- 

 rately toothed near the base j petals emarginate or bidentate. 

 Schw. Viol. 1. c. 



Leaves decurrent in a narrow margin on the petiole, always 

 smooth beneath, often pubescent above. Scape longer than 

 the leaf. Petals obovate ; the lowest cucuUate ; the 3 lower. 



