524 BRAINERD: FIVE NEW SPECIES OF VIOLA 
mm. long, the three outer with one or more sharp teeth; seeds 
the color of old bronze, 1.5 mm. long, about 50 in a capsule.— 
In wet soil in a wooded ravine, Jacksonville, Florida; the only 
known station. 
This plant was first called to my attention by Miss A. M. 
Ryon, of New London, Conn., who sent living specimens in the 
summer of 1907, collected the preceding March at Jacksonville, 
Fla., by Mrs. E. K. Comstock. Numerous plants were raised 
from seed the following season and seemed to represent an un- 
recognized species. On a trip to Florida in March 1909, guided 
by Mrs. Comstock’s precise directions, I readily found her station. 
The plants were abundant, and collections were made on March 
21 and on April 9, which will soon be distributed. 
The four following belong to the group represented by Viola 
palmata and V. papilionacea, and marked by ovoid cleistogamous 
flowers on prostrate, usually short, peduncles. 
Viola floridana sp. nov. 
Leaves at time of petaliferous flowering on spreading petioles, 
cordate, acute, finely crenate-serrate, often somewhat puberulent 
above, 2-3 cm. wide, 3~—4 cm. long, leaves twice as long and wide 
appearing soon after, on long erect petioles, glabrate, sometimes 
persisting through the winter; corolla whitish or pale violet, on 
peduncles much surpassing the leaves, the odd petal glabrous; 
apetalous flowers under soil or dead leaves, narrowly ovoid- 
acuminate; their ripe capsules blotched with purple, trigonous-cyl- 
indric, about 16 mm. long, 7 mm. thick, on decumbent peduncles; 
sepals broadly lanceolate, about one third the length of capsule; 
seeds 2 mm. long, salmon-colored or dark brown, about 60 in a 
capsule.—Moist rich woodland, northern and central Florida. 
This I first collected March 13, 1907, near Jacksonville, Fla., 
on an embankment for a street railway across a little marsh near 
Woodlawn Cemetery. Plants sent home at that time, or their 
offspring, have since been growing in the Middlebury garden. 
In March and April, 1909, I found the plant in several other 
stations near Jacksonville, and at stations widely separated in 
Volusia County—near the famous DeLeon Spring, on the shores 
of Lake Beresford, in an orange grove on a shell island near the 
outlet of this lake, on the edge of a tilled field near Lake Munroe, 
and in moist woodland near Deep Creek. In flower and fruit it 
