168 DowELL: THE VIOLETS OF STATEN ISLAND 
13. V. aFFinis Le Conte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 138. 1826 
This is quite common, but has been apparently overlooked by 
collectors. The only specimens I find collected by others are: 
Silver Lake, Sept. 2, 1883, Arthur Hollick, one plant mounted on 
sheet 555, together with V. d/anda and V. pallens, in the herbarium 
of the S. I. Assoc. of Arts and Sciences; Watchogue, June 9, 
1907, Wm. T. Davis. In my own collection I have eighteen 
numbers, collected at various places on the island, the first of 
which is from the vicinity of the handkerchief factory, West New 
Brighton, Apr. 18, 1903 (2076), and the last .from New Spring- 
ville, July 19, 1909 (5865). 
It may be noted here that the plants growing in the open look 
quite different from woodland plants, but the latter, when trans- 
planted into the open, acquire the appearance of plants growing 
naturally in the open. 
| 14. V. LANCEOLATA L. Sp. Pl. 934. 1753 
Common. South Shore, May 6, 1866, W. H. Leggett (?); 
New Dorp, May 8, 1876, WV. L. Britton. 
15. V. PRIMULIFOLIA L. Sp. Pl. 934. 1753 
Common. South Shore, May 6, 1866, West Side, July 22 
1869, and Huguenot, Aug. 8, 1870, W. 7. Leggett. 
16. V. PALLENS (Banks) Brainerd 
V. rotundifolia 8 pallens Banks, Prodr. 1: 295. 1824. 
V. pallens Brainerd, Rhodora 7: 31 D 1905. 
Frequent. Originally ieiaded: or V. blanda, South Side, 
May 6, 1866, W. H. Leggett (?); Rossville, May 21, 1882, WV. 
L. Britton. 
17. V. 1ncoGniTA Brainerd, Rhodora 7: 248. 31 D 1905 
Dr. E. Brainerd has pronounced a number of my specimens 
from Staten Island as belonging to this species, but the only speci- 
mens of which I can be reasonably sure are some collected at 
South New York No. 3, Aug. 14, 1909 (5975). The others are 
not like the V. zxcognita of the north woods. 
