Vol. 38 No. 1 
BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
JANUARY, tor1 
Further notes on the stemless violets of the South 
EzrRA BRAINERD 
(WITH PLATE I) 
In the preceding paper* the palmata group of blue stemless 
violets was discussed. Next to these in Dr. Small’s Flora of the 
Southeastern United States comes the affinis group, consisting 
of three closely allied species, growing in wet soil. They are 
characterized by glabrous foliage, and cleistogamous flowers on 
ascending peduncles that elongate and bear ellipsoid capsules, more 
or less tinged or dotted with purple. 
VIOLA AFFINIS proves to be a widespread and somewhat vari- 
able species. The most marked variation is the pubescent capsule, 
seen in New England specimens only from Wellesley, Mass., but 
often in specimens from the Middle States, and collected as far 
south as Mt. Vernon, Va. This character appears in no other 
species of our stemless violets, though found in several of the 
stemmed violets: V. pubescens, V. scabriuscula, and V. cana- 
densis. In all cases it is an inconstant character, being often 
absent in associated plants otherwise identical. 
In the South I collected Viola affinis at Summerville, S. C., 
and found it abundant at Biltmore, N.C. From West Nashville, 
Tenn., Mr. W. W. Eggleston sent me live plants, that I place here, 
after growing them for two seasons; though they are somewhat 
larger than normal in leaf, capsule, and seed. 
Specimens of VioLA LANGLOIsI Greene of eastern Louisiana 
and Texas are not easily distinguished from specimens of V. affinis 
* 37: 581-590. 11 Ja I9QII. : 
“The BULLETIN for December, 1910 (37: 569-630. pl. 36) was issued 11 Ja rort.] 
