244 VIOLARIEiE, 



round -obovate, cinereously hispidnlous-puberulent.— Californiau allies 

 or subspecies of V. NuUallU, the widely distributed yellow violet of the 

 Great Basin and Rocky Mountain regions. , The type, running into many 

 forms, is of the Mt. Diablo Range and the Sierra Nevada northward : 

 the variety is of the southern Sierra, from Kern Oo. to San Bernardino. 

 It is found in dry pine woods of the higher elevations. 



-)— H— 4— Leaves divided or lohed; Ji. yellow. 



11. V. lobata, Benth. PI. Hartw. 298 (1849). Stoutish, erect, }^—l ft. 

 high, from an erect rootstock, leafy to the summit ; puberulent or nearly 

 glabrous ; leaves of reniform or cordate outline, 2—4 in. broad, the 

 cauline short-petioled, all palmately cleft into 5—9 narrowly oblong lobes, 

 the central lobe largest or longest ; some of the radical leaves less lobed 

 or only coarsely toothed : petals 6 lines long, yellow, the upper brownish 

 externally, the lateral slightly bearded : capsule 5—6 lines long, acute. 

 Var. iutegrifolia, Wats. Leaves deltoid, acuminate, evenly crenate- 

 serrate, not at all lobed. — Sierra Nevada and inner Coast Range ; widely 

 dispersed. The plant with undivided foliage is probably distinct. Its 

 leaf-outline is wholly different. 



12. y. Hallii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 377 (1872). Stems low, 

 numerous, from a somewhat deep-seated erect rootstock : glabrous, pale, 

 leafy throughoiit : leaves 3-parted, decurrent upon the petiole ; segments 

 lanceolate, entire, acute ; stipules foliaceous, lanceolate or oblong, sub- 

 laciniate : 2 upper petals dark purple, the others yellow ; spur very 

 short. In Humboldt Co., Rattan, Chesnut tfc Drew, and northward. 



13. V. Douglasii, Steud. Nom. ii. 14 (1841); Greene, Pitt. ii. 14: 

 V. chrysaiitha, Hook. Ic. t. 49 (1837), not of Schrader (1834). Root and 

 clustered stems of the last, only the leaves and flowers appearing above 

 ground ; more or less pubescent : leaves large, bipinnately dissected 

 into long linear or oblong segments ; stipules lanceolate, entire or 

 toothed : peduncles 2—5 in. long, equalling or exceeding the leaves : 

 petals 5—7 lines long, golden yellow, the 2 upper brownish-purple 

 externally : capsiile 5 lines long, acute.— Throughout the State, chiefly 

 in the interior, on open plains and hillsides. 



14. V. Sheltoiiii, Torr. Pac. R. Rep. iv. 67. t. 2 (1857). Nearly or 

 quite glabrous : leaves of broad-cordate outline, ternately compound, 

 or 3-parted ; the divisions lobed or cleft into oblong or linear se^ents : 

 peduncles about equalling the leaves : fl. not half as large as in the last, 

 yellow, veined with purple. — A slender species of the woodlands of the 

 northern Sierra ; Nevada and Plumas counties, etc. 



-1— H— +- H— Leaves divided; Jt. not yellow. 



15. V. Beckwithii, T. & G. Pac. R. Rep. ii. 119. t. 1 (1855). Foliage 

 of the preceding, but plant more condensed and low, appearing as if 



