VIOLET FAMILY 519 



Locs. — Ukiah, M. S. Baker; Potter Valley, Purpus 904; Willits, If. S. Baker; South YoUo 

 BoUy, Jepson 14,103 ; Larrabee Valley, Humboldt Co., Tracy 7034 ; Kneeland Prairie, Humboldt 

 Co., Tracy 4046 ; Post Creek Mt., Trinity Co., Tracy 6480 ; Parker Creek, Salmon Mts., Hall 8645 ; 

 Gasquet, Del Norte Co., M. S. Baker. Ore.: Grants Pass, M. S. Baker. 



Refs. — Viola hallii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8:377 (1872), type loc. Salem, Ore., E. Hall, 

 Howell; Jepson, Man. 643 (1925). 



3. V. douglasii Steud. Gold Violet. Plants 2 to 5 inches high, the cluster 

 of stems wholly or almost completely underground, arising from a deep short root- 

 stock; herbage pubescent, the stems and petioles subglabrous or glabrous; leaf- 

 blades bipinnatifid with long linear or oblong segments; stipules lanceolate, entire 

 or incised; flowers usually large, on peduncles (2 to 3 inches long) equaling or 

 exceeding the leaves; petals 6 to 8 lines long, orange-yellow, the two upper brown- 

 ish-purple externally, the others purple-veined; capsule 3 to 4 lines long, acute. 



Grassy slopes or plains, mostly in open country, 100 to 6600 feet : cismontane 

 Southern California; Tehachapi Mts.; Sierra Nevada foothills from Tulare Co. to 

 Shasta Co.; Sacramento Valley; inner Coast Ranges from San Luis Obispo Co. 

 to Siskiyou Co. North to Oregon. Mar.-May. 



Locs. — S. Cal. : Laguna Mts., Muns 9658 ; Santa Ysabel, San Diego Co., Jepson 8525 ; Hen 

 shaw Dam, San Diego Co., Jepson 12,438; Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Munz 5653; betw 

 Pine Flats and Chileo, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 2447 ; Santa Barbara, Parry 4- Lemmon. Te 

 haehapi Mts.: Tehachapi, Mum 8928. Sierra Nevada: Springville, Tulare Co., Purpus 5445: 

 Big Sandy Creek, Fresno Co., ace. M. S. Baker; Mariposa, Duncan Dunning ; Jamestown, Tuol 

 umne Co. A. L. Grant 622; lone, Amador Co., E. Brandegee ; Auburn, Shockley; Penn Valley, 

 Nevada Co., Jepson 14,106; Oroville (n. of). Heller 11,189; Burney Valley, Shasta Co., M. S. 

 Baker. Sacramento Valley: Vacaville, Jepson 14,104; Elk Grove, Sacramento Co., Drew; Blacks 

 Yolo Co., Nutting; College City, Colusa Co., Alice King; Anderson, Shasta Co., Alice King 

 Middle and inner Coast Eanges: Paso Eobles, Betty Knight; betw. Emmet and Panoche Pass 

 Abrams 4- Borthwick 7929; Mt. Hamilton, C. F. Baker 635; Santa Eosa, M. S. Baker; Middle 

 town grade, Mt. St. Helena, Jepson 14,105; Kelseyville, Lake Co., Chandler; Eound Valley, ne 

 Mendocino Co., Westerman; Elk Creek, w. Glenn Co., Guy Smith; Hayfork Mt., Trinity Co. 

 Tracy 6447; Quartz Valley, Siskiyou Co., Butler 607. 



Refs.— Viola douglasii Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, 771 (1841) ; Jepson Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 233 

 (1901), ed. 2, 267 (1911), Man. 643 (1925). V. chrysantha Hook. Ic. PI. t. 49 (1836), type from 

 Cal., Douglas; not V. chrysantha Schrader (1832). V. pruinosa Pollard, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 

 13:130 (1900), type loc. "Bear Valley," Leiberg 3307, doubtless in the San Bernardino Mts. ace. 

 Jos. A. Ewan; foliage densely short-pubescent, flowers smaller. 



4. V. sheltonii Torr. Fan Violet. Plants 3 to 6 inches high, the stems 

 mostly below ground, arising from a short rootstock; herbage glabrous; leaf -blades 

 orbicular in outline, % to 1% inches wide, palmately 3-divided, the cuneate-ob- 

 ovate divisions palmately 3-parted or again cleft into linear or oblong lobes, the 

 lobes obtuse; peduncles scape-like; petals pale yellow, beardless, 4 to 6 lines long. 



Wooded or chaparral slopes or rocky places, 2000 to 8000 feet : Santa Ana and 

 San Gabriel mountains; Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Modoc Co.; North Coast 

 Ranges from Santa Clara Co. to Siskiyou Co. North to Washington. Apr.-July. 



Locs. — S. Cal.: Santiago Peak, Orange Co., Peirson 3496; San Antonio Mts. (Bull. Torr. 

 Club 49:353). Sierra Nevada: Monarch Lake trail, Tulare Co. (ace. M. S. Baker) ; Sherlocks, 

 Mariposa Co., Congdon; Hetch-Hetchy, Bioletti; Sierra Valley, Sierra Co., Parry 4- Lemmon; 

 Jameson Creek, Plumas Co., Hall 9353; "Warner Mts., e. Modoc Co., Lemmon. North Coast 

 Eanges: Snow Mt., n. Lake Co. (Zoe 4:171) ; Black Butte, w. Colusa Co., Eattan; South Fork Mt., 

 Humboldt Co., Tracy 8910; Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 4187; Marble Mt., Siskiyou Co., 

 Chandler 1650 ; Yreka, Butler 1189. 



Eefs.— Viola sheltonii Torr. Pac. E. Eep. 4:67, t. 2 (1857), type loc. Yuba Eiver near 

 Downieville, Bigelow; Jepson, Man. 644 (1925). 



5. V. lobata Benth. Wood Violet. Stem erect, naked below the leafy sum- 

 mit, 4 to 14 inches high; rootstock short, deep-seated; leaf -blades 1 to 3 inches long, 

 ovate or almost round in outline, cordate or truncate at base, palmately 3 to 7-cleft 

 or -divided, the lobes entire or somewhat repandly toothed, and the lateral usually 

 larger; inflorescence somewhat umbellate; peduncles 1 to 2 inches long; petals 

 yellow, all dark-veined towards base, the upper purple on the outside. 



