FLORA OF NOVA SCOTIA — LAWSON. 99 



A. []. Mcicka3\ This species was collected near Halifax towards 

 the end of last centur}^ by Menzies, the botanist of Vancouver's 

 expedition. 



Viola rotundifolia, Michaux. Teny Cape, Dr. How. The 

 existence of this species in Nova Scotia rests entirely upon Dr 

 How's authority', and it is verj^ desirable that search should be 

 made for the plant at Teny Cape. In Dr. How's Notes, (Proc. 

 Inst. Sc), he remarks : " This pretty plant, the one yellow 

 violet, of whicli there is a specimen in the Herbarium of Nova 

 Scotia plants procured fnjm me b}^ the Provincial Commissioners 

 for the Paris Exposition of 1867, I have only seen growing at 

 the locality where that specimen was got, viz., at the Manganese 

 Mine, in the woods, at Teny Cape, Hants County." It is possible 

 that a mistake may have been made in the name, as Dr. H. speaks 

 of this as " the one yellow violet," and does not mention pubes- 

 ceiis, which has also yellow flowers, and is known certainly as a 

 native. The two plants are easily distinguished, V. rotundifolia 

 being a stemless violet, with all the leaves coming directly from 

 the root, while V. 2Juhescens has erect stems bearing the leaves, 

 without any radical ones. Both have A^ellow flowers. 



Viola pubescexs, Aiton. Glace Bay, H. Poole. Pictou, A. 

 H. Mackay. Truro, Dr. D. A. Campbell, Dr. Lindsay. Strait of 

 Canso, Rev. E. H. Ball. I once picked up a freshly gathered 

 specimen of this plant on the railway platform at Bedford, but 

 could not ascertain whence it came. It is not known to grow 

 anywhere in the Halifax district. 



Viola Canadensis, Linn. At the Newport Plaster Quarries, 

 scarce, close by the station for Adiantum pedatuni. The New- 

 port plant is tall and erect, without underground shoots. 



Viola canina, var. Muhlenbergii, Gray. Truro, in woods, 

 at Smith's Island, Dr. G. C. Campbell. 



Viola tricolor, Linn. Rocky Lake Station, Halifax County. 

 No doubt a garden escape. Spontaneous in the garden at Lucy- 

 field. This and V. lutea are the two original sources of the gar- 

 den pansies, which have probably been subsequently improved 



