170 DowELL: THE VIOLETS OF STATEN ISLAND 
sinus, 2.5—-7 cm. long and the later leaves as broad, on petioles 
two or three times as long ; margin cut about midway to the mid- 
vein into falcate lobes, the basal lobes broad and incised, the 
median lobe terminating the blade with a blunt apex. Scapes of 
blue flowers about equaling the petioles ; auricles of calyx ciliolate, 
short and appressed or long and spreading ; cleistogamous capsules 
green or purplish, finely puberulent or glabrate, about 1 cm. long, 
on ascending or erect slender peduncles about half as long as the 
petioles ; seeds buff. (PLATE 11.) 
In their vernal stage these plants resemble Viola Brittoniana, 
but the leaves are less deeply cut. The long-auricled calyx of the 
cleistogamous flowers shows also the relationship to this species. 
On the other hand the purple-mottled and puberulent capsules are 
unmistakable evidence of the relationship to V. affints. 
South Avenue, near Lambert Lane, June 9, 1907 (4768, type), 
transplanted and grown in garden for two seasons; Palmer Tract, 
Port Richmond, May 8, 1906 (4327), transplanted and grown for 
three seasons ; near pond on South Avenue, May 29, 1909, trans- 
planted and specimens taken June 20 (5736) and Aug. 12 (5957); 
Bradley Avenue, Aug. 7, 1909 (5903), also transplanted. 
24. V. AFFINIS X CUCULLATA Brainerd, Rhodora 8: 
49. 27 Mr 1906 
South New York No. 3, Sept. 19, 1908 (5574a); Egbertville, 
May 9, 1908, transplanted and specimens taken Sept. 26 (5600). 
Here probably belong also: Bradley Avenue, May 21, 1905 
(3728), and Merrell Avenue and South Avenue, May 6, 1906 
(4376). 
25. Viola affinis x fimbriatula hyb. nov. 
Young plants pubescent, older plants much less pubescent. 
Vernal leaf-blades oblong-ovate to broadly ovate, obtuse or acutish, 
subcordate or truncate, crenate, or irregularly toothed toward the 
base, densely ciliolate, 2.5-4 cm. long, 1.5—3 cm. wide, on slender 
petioles two to three times as long; aestival leaves deltoid to 
ovate, with the apex more acute, 3-9 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. wide. 
lue flowers overtopping the leaves, their calyx-lobes short and 
blunt, ciliolate, with short appressed ciliolate auricles ; cleistog- 
amous flowers sagittate, with longer and more spreading ciliolate 
auricles, on erect or ascending peduncles; capsules green or mottled 
with purple, puberulent or glabrous, 6-11 mm. long, in some 
plants entirely sterile ; seeds buff to brown. (PLaTE 12.) 
