142 VIOLACE^. Viola. 



deltoid-lanceolate, hastate and rhombic-ovate, repandly toothed ; stipules 

 ovate, acute ; stigma somewhat incurved, emarginate ; sepals lanceolate, 

 acute; spur very short. — Michx. ! Jl. 2. jj. 1^9 ; Ell sk. 1. p. 202 ; Schwein.! 

 I. c; Torr.! fl. \. p. 257; DC.prodr. 1. p. 300; Le Conte! I. c. V. gib- 

 bosa, /?o/.; DC. I.e. 



Shady w^oods, particularly in mountainous regions, Pennsylvania ! to 

 Florida! — Rhizoma long and creeping. Stem 4-10 inches high. Radical 

 leaves dilated and truncate at the base. Peduncles shorter than the leaves. 

 Flowers smaller than in V. pubescens, yellow: lateral petals slightly bearded. 

 Stigma hairy on each side, with a deep furrow on the top. 



25. V. tripartita (Ell.) : hirsute ; stem simple, leafy only at the summit ; 

 leaves deeply 3-parted, the lobes lanceolate, toothed. Ell. sk. p. 2. 302 ; DC. 

 prodr. 1. p. 300. V. hastata, /?. Le Conte, I. c. 



Near Athens, Georgia. — Stem about a foot high ; the young plant villous. 

 Leaves divided to the base, sometimes trifoliolate, very hairy ; segments 

 sometimes acuminate. Stipules lanceolate, villous, entire or serrulate. Pe- 

 duncles long, slender, bracteate Avith 2 minute alternate scales near the 

 middle. Flowers yellow. Sepals acute. The lower petal beautifuUy streak- 

 ed with purple. Elliott. 



26. V. pubescens (Ait.) : villous ; stem erect, naked below ; leaves broad- 

 ly cordate, toothed ; stipules ovate, somewhat toothed ; sepals oblong-lance- 

 olate; spur very short, a little saccate. — Ait. Keio. (ed. 1.) 3. p. 290; Nutt! 

 gen. 1. p. 150 ; Schwein. ! I. c. ; Torr. ! fl. 1. p. 257 ; Le Conte ! I. c. V. 

 Pennsylvanica, Mich.v. ! fl. 2. p. 149. 



/i. eriocarpa (Nutt.) : capsules densely villous. Nutt. ! I. c. ; Torr. ! I. c. 

 V. eriocarpa, Schwein. ! I. c. ; DC. I. c. 



y. scabriuscula: branching from the root ; sterns decumbent, nearly gla- 

 brous; leaves smaller, somewhat scabrous, but hardly pubescent; capsule 

 glabrous, or villous. — V. scabriuscula, Schwein.! mss. 



Dry woods, Canada ! to Georgia ! west the Council Blutfs on the Mis- 

 souri. J.Pennsylvania, Darlington! Kentucky, Dr. Short ! April-May. 

 — Stem 6-12 inches high, with naked stipules at the base. Leaves 2-3 

 on the upper part of the stem, somewhat acuminate, rarely almost glabrous. 

 Peduncles shorter than the leaves. Flowers middle-sized, yellow : petals 

 handsomely striate. Appendages of the stamens forming a broad dorsal 

 wing or keel, not produced at the base. Stigma globose, not rostrate, strong- 

 ly bearded on each side. 



27. V. glabella (Nutt.! mss.): "nearly glabrous; stem erect, naked be- 

 low ; leaves reniform-cordate, with a short acunjination, crenately serrulate; 

 stipules very small, membranaceous, nearly entire ; sepals hnear-lanceolate j 

 spur very short, slightly saccate. 



" Shady woods of the Oregon. April.— Leaves with a very shallow smus, 

 scarcely at all cuneate at the insertion of the petiole. Flowers rather larger 

 than in V. pubescens, bright yellow, the upper ones almost fastigiate : petals 

 somewhat veined at the base. Stigma globose, hairy on the sides." Nuttall. 

 — Very near V. pubescens. 



28. V. ocellata: pubescent ; leaves on very long petioles, cordate-triangu- 

 lar, crenately toothed; stipules lanceolate, somewhat ciliate ; peduncles short- 

 er than the leaves ; sepals linear ; petals oblong-obovate (lateral ones spot- 

 ted) ; spur very short; appendages dorsal, winged, not produced at the base. 



California, Douglas .'—Stem nearly a foot high, simple, terete. Leaves 

 li inch wide, slightly cordate, or truncate at the base ; uppermost ones 

 somewhat acuminate and deltoid: petioles 3-4 inches long. Stipules small, 

 scarious. Flowers on the summit of the stem, middle-sized: peduncles 

 about an inch long. Upper petals purple, the others pale yellow; lateral 



