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** Acaulescent. Flowers white. 
10. V. sLanpa. Willd. (V. clandestina. Ph. V. ameena. Le Conte.) 
Bland or Sweet-scented Violet. 
Lws. cordate, slightly pubescent; petiole pubescent; ls. white.—Found in 
meadows, Can. to Penn. The rhizoma is slender and creeping. Leaves close 
to the earth, nearly round, cordate or ovate, and sometimes with a rounded 
sinus so as to appear reniform. Petioles half round. Peduncles sub-4-sided, 
longer than the leaves. Petals white, greenish at base, upper and lateral ones 
marked with a few blue lines, generally beardless. Fls. small, fragrant. May. 
11. V. LanceoLata. Lance-leaved Violet. 
Iws. smooth, lanceolate, narrowed at base into the petiole, obtusish, sub- 
crenate. Found in wet meadows, Can. to Tex. Rhizoma creeping. Leaves 
very narrow, and, with the stalk, 3—5/ long. Petioles half round. Peduncles 
sub-4-sided. Petals white, greenish at base, upper and lateral ones marked 
with blue lines, generally beardless. Flowers small. May. 
12. V. PRIMULEFOLIA. Primrose Violet. 
Iws. lance-ovate, abruptly decurrent at base; bracts lance-linear; pet. 
acute, nearly equal, beardless.—F'ound in damp soils, Mass. to Ky. Rhizoma 
creeping. Leaves sometimes subcordate, rather obtuse, mostly smooth, longer 
than their stalks. Petals obovate, acute, flat, marked with purple lines at base, 
generally beardless, as long as the bracts. Flowers small, white, on sub-4-sided 
stalks. May, in N. Eng. 
B. acuta. T. & G. (V. acuta. Bw.)—Smooth ; lvs. ovate; pet. acute, lateral 
ones nearly beardless. Mass. 
*** Acaulescent. Flowers yellow. 
13. V. rotunpiFoLIA. Michx. Round-leaved Violet. 
Ivs. orbicular-ovate, cordate, slightly serrate, nearly smooth, with the 
sinus closed; petiole pubescent; cal. obtuse. —A small yellow violet, found in 
woods, N. Eng. to Tenn. Leaves nearly round, with a deep, narrow sinus at 
base, obscurely and remotely serrated. Veins and petioles pubescent. Pedun- 
cles as long as the claws, sub-4-sided, bracted in the middle. Petals yellow, 
marked at base with brown lines. Flowers small. 
**** Caulescent. 
14. V. CanapDEnsis. Canadian Violet. 
Smooth; dws. cordate, acuminate, serrate; ped. shorter than the leaves; 
stip. short, entire—A large species, found in woods, British Am. to Car., often 
a foot in height. Stem subsimple, terete, with lance-ovate, membranaceous 
stipules. Leaves alternate, the lower on very long petioles, acute or obtuse. 
Peduncles sub-4-sided, terminal, with minute bracts. Flowers large, nearly 
regular. Petals white or light blue, yellowish at base, the upper ones purple 
without and marked wlth blue lines, lateral ones bearded. Flowering all 
summer. 
15. V. puBesceNs. Ait. Common Yellow Violet. 
Villous-pubescent ; st. erect, naked below; lws. broad-cordate, toothed ; 
stip. ovate, subdentate—A large yellow violet, found in dry, stony woods, Can. 
to Ga. and Mo. Root fibrous. Stem simple, more or less pubescent, somewhat 
triangular and fleshy, bearing a few leaves at the top, leafless below. Leaves 
broad-ovate, cordate, or deltoid ; obscurely dentate, obtuse, on short stalks. Sti- 
pules large, ovate, wavy. Flower-stalks rather shorter than leaves, downy, ax- 
illary, solitary, with 2 subulate bracts. Petals yellow, lateral ones bearded, and 
with the upper one marked with a few brown lines. The plant varies in pu- 
bescence, sometimes even glabrous. Height very variable, 5—20’. May-— Jn. 
B. ertocarpa. Nutt. BY eriocarpa. Schw.) Capsule densely villose. 
y- scabriuscula. T. & G. (V. scabriuscula. Schw.) St. decumbent, branch- 
ing from the root, and with the smaller leaves somewhat scabrous. 
16. V. wastata. Michx. 
Smooth, simple, erect, leafy above; lvs. deltoid-lanceolate, hastate or 
broadly ovate-acuminate, dentate; stip. ovate, minute, ciliate, dentate; lower 
pet. dilated, obscurely 3-lobed, iateral ones slightly bearded ; sep. lanceolate, with 
