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leaves; the bracts minute and alternate. Sepals linear-lanceolate. Flowers 

 a little smaller than in the preceding species, brilliant blue. Cusps of the 

 anthers remarkably broad. Style short, clavate.— This species, on the Mis- 

 souri, appears to take the place of V. pedata." Nutt. 



3. V. palinata (Linn.) : pubescent ; leaves cordate, palmately or hastately 

 lobed (rarely entire) ; lobes crenate and toothed, the middle one much lar- 

 ger ; stigma triangular, the beak short; inferior petals bearded.— ^/it/i.?-. .' 

 Jl.2. p. 161; Ell. .sA-. 1. ;;. 300; Schwfin. f I.e.; Torr.! fi. 1. p. 249; 

 DC. prodr. 1. p. 292; Le Conte ! I c. ; Hook. ft. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 74. V. hct- 

 erophylla, Lc Conte! I. c. V. ranunculifolia, Juss. in JRcfin. f Schull. syst. 

 5. p. 352 1 



Low grounds, Canada ! to New Orleans T west to Arkansas! May. — 

 Rhizoma thick. Leaves variable in form and degree of pubescence ; rarely 

 alnw^t glabrous, sometimes woolly ; the early ones nearly or quite entire, 

 and somewhat ovate and reniform; the base usually more or less hastate; 

 under surface often purplish. Flowers middle-sized, bright blue, rarely 

 white. 



4. V. cucullata (Ait.): glabrous or rarely somewhat pubescent; leaves 

 reniform-cordate, somewhat acute, cucuUate at the base, crenately sern'tp ; 

 stigma triangular, margined; lower petals bearded. — Ait. Kew. 3'. p. 288 ; 

 PursK ft. 1. p- 172; Bis^el. ! ft. Bost. p. 60 ; Ell sk. 1. p. 298; Schwein. ! 

 I. c. ; Torr.! f. 1. p. 251 ; Le Conte ! mon. I c. ; DC. prodr. 1. p. 292; 

 Hook. Ji. Bor.-Am. 1. p. lb. V. papilionacea, Pursh, fl. 1. p. 173; DC. 

 prodr. I. c. V. obliqua, Ait. I. c. ; Schwein.! I. c.j Torr. ! I. c. V. affinis, 

 Le Conte ! I. c. 



0. congener : villous ; leaves broadly and somewhat reniformly cordate, 

 crenately toothed, somewhat lobed. — V. congener, Le Conte! I. c. 



y.l sororia : nearly glabrous ; leaves exactly cordate; flowers small. — V. 

 sororia, Willd. horf. Berol. t. 72. 



i. alba: smoothish ; flowers white. 



e. reniforinis : glabrous ; leaves broadly reniform. 



Fields, woods, and wet meadows; Arctic America ! to Florida! /S.Geor- 

 gia, Le Conte ! j . Dry hill-sides, Massachusetts to New Jersey ! S. Ken- 

 tucky, Short ! f. Massachusetts, Pickering f April-May. — A very vari- 

 able species. In wet or shady places it is perfectly glabrous, but in expos- 

 ed situations more or less pubescent. 



5. F. septemloba (Le Conte) : glabrous and shining ; leaves somewhat 

 succulent, ovate-cordate ; lowest ones entire, the others pedately 7-lobed 

 with the middle lobe largest : lateral petals bearded. Jje Conte .' I. c. 



Pine Avoods of the low country of Carolina and Georgia, Le Conte ! — Pe- 

 duncles longer than the leaves. Flowers generally blue, varying to white. 

 Lower petal large, villous at the base, and, as well as the lateral ones, mark- 

 ed with deeper blue lines. Le C. — We fear that this species is only a variety 

 of V. palmata. 



6. V. Selkirkii (Go\die): leaves cordate, crenately serrate, minutelv hir- 

 sute above, glabrous beneath, the sinus deep and nearly closed ; stigma tri- 

 angular, margined, with a distinct beak ; spur nearly as long as the lamina, 

 thick, very obtuse. — G oldie ! in Edinb. phil. jour. 6. p. 319; Hook. ! jl. 

 Bor.-Am. 1. p. 75. 



Hills about Montreal, Lower Canada, Goldie, Dr. Holmes ! Mountains 

 of Massachusetts, Dewey ! Woody hill-sides in the Western part of the 

 State of New-York! — Rhizoma somewhat creeping. Leaves numerous, 

 forming a little tuft, on long petioles ; lamina an inch broad, somewhat 

 acute, or obtuse. Peduncles shorter than the leaves. Flowers much small- 

 er than in V. cucullata : petals pale blue, obovate ; spur very conspicuous, 

 soBoewhat dilated at the extremity. — A very distinct species. 



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