564 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Common in dry soil in the northern counties and occasional 

 southtward, especially along the Coast strip. 



Fr. — Late July to mid-September. Basal leaves. — About mid- 

 September. 



Middle District. — Medford, Dividing Creek. 

 Pine Barrens. — Atsion, Egg Harbor City. 

 Coast Strip. — Manahawkin, Anglesea, Wildwood. 

 Cape May.— Cape May (OHB). 



Family VIOLACE^. Violets. 



VIOLA L.* 



Key to the Species. 



a. Plants stemless, leaves and flower scapes growing direct from a root- 

 stalk. 

 b. Style club-shaped, beakless ; orange tips of the stamens large and 

 conspicuous in the center of the flower, leaves divided into numerous 

 linear segments. Viola pedata lineariloba, p. 565 



bb. Style dilated upward, with a conical beak on the lower side. 

 c. Flowers blue or lilac purple. 

 d. Leaves heart shaped. 



e. Plants glabrous or essentially so. 



/. Cleistogamous flowers on erect or ascending peduncles. 

 g. Cleistogamous flowers long and slender, petaliferous 

 flowers usually pale blue with dark blue center. 



V. cucuUafa, p. 568 



gg. Cleistogamous flowers ovoid, petaliferous flowers 



pale purple. V. aMnis, p. 568 



ff. Cleistogamous flowers on short prostrate peduncles, 



petaliferous flowers deep violet. V. papilionacea, p. 568 



ee. Plants more or less pubescent 



f. Leaves palmately 5-9 lobed. V. palmata, p. 566 



ff. Leaves, or some of them, hastately 3-5 lobed. 



V. p. tribola, p. 5G« 

 fff. Leaves all undivided. 



g. Pubescence general. V. p. sororia, p. 56? 



gg. Pubesence confined to the upper surface of the 

 leaves. V. hirsutula, p. 568 



dd. Leaves not heart shaped. 



e. Ovate oblong, pubescent, short petioled, often with short 



basal lobes. V. timbriatula, p. 569 



ee. Lanceolate, usually glabrous, basal lobes often dilated and 



incised. V. sagittata, p. 569 



eee. Deltoid, glabrous, with short lobes at base, petals often 



emarginate. V. emarginata, p. 570 



eeee. Divided into narrow lobes, essentially glabrous. 



V. brittoniana, p. 567 



* Cf. Stone Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1903, pp. 656-699. Violets of 

 Philadelphia and vicinity. 



