WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 177 



Marsh Blue Violet 



Viola ciicullata Aiton 



Plate 138b 



Leaves and stems smooth or nearly so; leaf blades, except the earliest, 

 broadly ovate to reniform, heart-shaped at the base, the margins strongly 

 cucullate (rolled inward) when the leaves are young, the apex pointed, 

 margins crenate-serrate ; when mature 2 to 4 inches broad. Flowering 

 stalks much longer than the leaves. Flowers violet-blue with a dark-blue 

 throat or center, or sometimes entirely white; lateral petals bearded, the 

 lower or spur petal smooth and usually shorter than the lateral ones. Cleis- 

 togamous flowers on long, slender, erect stalks, their capsules green; seeds 

 nearly black. 



In moist meadows, springy places in woodlands and along streams, 

 Quebec to Georgia. Flowering from late in April until June. 



Ovate-leaved Violet 



Viola fiiiibriatitla J. E. Smith 



Plate 137a 



Rootstock long and stout, sometimes branching. The earliest leaf 

 blades ovate and blunt; the later ones oblong-ovate, acute, finely pubescent, 

 especially beneath, the margins crenulate toward the apex, the bases usually 

 somewhat heart-shaped or truncate and sharply toothed, incised or auricu- 

 late. Flowering stalks about as long as the leaves when first in bloom or 

 longer than the leaves in later flowers; the corolla violet-purple. Capsules 

 green; seeds brown. Cleistogamous flowers on erect peduncles. 



Dry fields and hillsides, throughout the eastern states and south to 

 Georgia. Flowering in May and June. 



Arrow-leaved Violet 



Mola sagittata Aiton 



Plate 137b 



Leaves erect from a stout rootstock, smooth, or sometimes ciliatc or 

 finely pubescent; their petioles longer than the blades which are lanceolate 



b 



