274 Blue to Purple Flowers 



The Early Violet has five large petals that are hairy at 

 the base, the lower one being marked with a tiny, dark- 

 veined yellowish-white patch on its face, and protruding at 

 the back into a small rounded spur. The leaves are broad 

 and conspicuously veined, many of them being folded in- 

 v^ards when young. 



Viola adiinca, or Dog Violet, is a smaller dark purple or 

 white species which grows on dry ground and sends out 

 runners that bear many blossoms. The low stems branch 

 out from the base, the leaves are ovate and somewhat cor- 

 date, and the spur is rather slender and curved. 



Viola Selkirkii, or Selkirk's Violet, has dark green or- 

 bicular, deeply cordate, crenate leaves, whose upper surface 

 is sparingly beset with short hairs near the margin. The 

 pale violet flowers have an obtuse spur and are beard- 

 less. 



Viola paliistris, or Marsh Violet, has leaf and flower 

 stalks arising from a very slender creeping rootstock. The 

 flower stalks are longer than the leaf stalks. The leaves 

 are thin cordate, broadly ovate and crenulate, the petals are 

 pale lilac streaked with darker veins or sometimes nearly 

 white, the flower is slightly bearded, the spur is short and 

 the stigma not bearded but somewhat beaked. This is not 

 a common species. 



CUT-LEAVED ANGELICA 



Leptotconia miiltiMa. Parsley Family 



Stems: from a large fusiform rootstock. Leaves: pinnately decom- 

 pound. Flowers: in large umbels. Fruit: oblong-elliptical, carpel 

 with dorsal and intermediate ribs. 



The stems of this handsome Angelica grow from one to 

 three feet high and are ver}' leafy at the base. The seg- 



