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McNab's Island, Halifax, Dr. Somers. Abundant on rather 

 dry rocks beyond the North West Arm, Halifax, and very abun- 

 dant, in sand, around Kingston, Annapolis County, Macoun and 

 Burgess. Near Kingston, P. Jack, sp. 



VIOLACEyE. 



Viola cucullata, Aiton. V. palmata, var. cucuUata, Gray, 

 Watson. Common Blue Violet. Moist fields, pastures, aud 

 wayside banks, abundant. Very common in Halifax County. 

 Truro, in grass fields, common. Dr. G. C. Campbell. In wet 

 boggy places the leaves and flowers are smaller, the petals nar- 

 rower and paler. We have no forms approaching V. palmaf.a, 

 Linn. One state, growing in Sackville, in light, dry soil, with 

 large fleshy rootstock, numerous very large hairy leaves, and 

 few very large ruddy purple flowers, may l^e distinct, or possibly 

 a hybrid between cucullata and sagittata, with which two species 

 it grows. 



Viola sa(3;ittata, Aiton. Arrow-leaved Violet, Formerly 

 abundant at Lucyfield, on the banks of the Sackville River, but 

 now almost extinct there. Large forms exist in Point Pleasant 

 Park, Halifax, growing in earthy spots through the woods and 

 on the drives, wherever the earth has beon disturbed. 



Viola Selkirkii, Pursh. " Vicinity of Windsor, Nova 

 Scotia, McGill College Herbarium," Macoun's Cat. There is no 

 further information respecting this rare species, which does not 

 appear to have l:)een found at Windsor in recent years. 



Viola bland a Willdenow. Early White Violet. Sweet 

 Violet. Very abundant in the woods around Halifax, in Sack- 

 ville, Beaver Bank, and many other parts of the Province. A 

 form with round-reniform leaves is called var. renifolia. 



Truro, damp fields and swamps, very common, Dr. G. C. 

 Campbell. 



In " Hortus Kewensis, a Catalogue of the Plants cultivated in 

 the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, 2nd edition, by W. T. Aiton, 

 Gardener to His Majesty," this common sweet violet of Nova 

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