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BOTANY. 
2-homed, about half the length of the stipe ; seeds nearly orbicular or broadly 
oval, very minutely rugose. — 1-2° high, branching; leaflets ^-1' long; 
flowers usually bright yellow ; seeds less than 1" in length ; stipe ^-i' long, 
equaling the pedicel. The specimens resemble 857 Wright, 1851, which, 
though much larger than the plants of Gregg and Berlandier, has exactly the 
same seeds. Sonora and other States of Northern Mexico. Hot Springs of 
Grass Valley, foot of Havallah range, Nevada ; June. (136.) 
Var. (!) GEANDIFLOEA. Leaflets ovate or orbicular ; bracts similar, con- 
spicuous, setaceously mucronate; sepals long-acuminate; capsules beaked 
with the long slender style ; flowers showy, bright yellow, but variable in size, 
the petals 1-4" long upon the same plant ; seeds 1" or more in length, dark 
colored, with the surface more or less rugose or irregularly pitted. The same 
as 89 Anderson, from near Carson City, and perhaps a distinct species. 
Truckee Valley and foot-hills of the West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 
5,000 feet altitude; May, June. (137.) 
PoLANisiA UNiGLANDULOSA, DC Glandular-pubcsccnt ; leaves 3-foho- 
late, .leaflets and bracts oblong-lanceolate ; stamens 8-16; style longer than 
the ovary; pods linear-oblong, attenuate at base; seeds turgid, rough and 
warty. — A low small-flowered form, (the petals 2-4" long,) with the capsules 
short-stipitate, and equivalent to P. trachi/sper?na, T. & G. From Western 
Texas and New Mexico northward to the Platte. Found in Truckee Valley, 
Nevada, and in Salt Lake Valley ; July, August. (138.) 
VIOLACE^. 
Viola palusteis, L. White Mountains of New Hampshire, and mount- 
ains of Colorado, Utah, Oregon, and California. Found in the Uintas and 
Wnhsalch; 7-8,000 feet altitude ; July. (139.) 
\ K^LA cucuLLATA, Ait. From the Arctic Circle to Florida and west, but 
movo rare, to the Rio Grande and the Rocky Mountains. It is also reported 
I'rom Southern Calitbrnia and from the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Found 
in the Pali-Ute range, Puttie Mountains, and Ruby Valley, Nevada, and in 
the Walisatch; 6,000 feet altit luK' ; May-August. (140.) 
Viola canina, L. From the upper section of the Southern States to 
latiiiulc 59°, m \hi) Rocky .Mountains from Colorado northward, and frequent 
on tlu> Pacific Coast as far south as Monterey. Found in the East Humboldt 
Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatcli and Uintas; 4,500-7,000, and in 
