BRAINERD: FIVE NEW SPECIES OF VIOLA 525 
resembles V. esculenta, but its constantly uncut leaves on erect 
petioles and its habitat in well drained soil seem to mark it as 
distinct. V. esculenta was not found in Volusia County. 
Viola rosacea sp. nov. 
Acaulescent; leaves at vernal flowering oe ovate-cordate, 
acute or acuminate, crenate-serrate, 2-4 cm. long, sparsely hir- 
tellous above; later leaves broadly ovate, ica. acuminate, 
glabrous, 5-7 cm. long; corolla rose-purple, about 2 cm. broad, 
spurred petal glabrous or slightly villous; cleistogamous flowers 
ovoid, on prostrate peduncles; their mature capsules ellipsoid, 
about 12 mm. long, 6 mm. thick, purple-dotted, enclosed for half 
their length in lanceolate sepals; the auricles of the three outer 
sepals short, appressed, entire, rounded; seeds buff, 2 mm. long, 
about 50 in a capsule.—Dry open woodland, Point St. Martin, 
near Biloxi, Mississippi; well drained borders of bayous, Crowley, 
Louisiana. 
I first observed this species March 19, 1908, in a grove of 
deciduous trees on the fair-ground at Crowley, La. On the low, 
often flooded, borders of the neighboring bayou, V. Langloisi 
grew in profusion; but V. rosacea was confined to stretches of 
woodland above the flood-plain. I afterward collected it in similar 
situations in adjacent townships. The plant even at that early 
date was out of flower, with leaves and capsules nearly mature. 
Moreover, live plants shipped to Vermont failed to furnish flowers 
the following spring. Last March on my way South Dr. Small 
showed me a puzzling specimen of Viola collected by Professor 
S. M. Tracy at ‘‘Point St. Martin,” Miss., March 10, 1898, no. 
5008. A few days later I had the great pleasure of enjoying 
Professor Tracy’s hospitality at his beautiful home on the north 
shore of the Bay of Biloxi, and of learning that the station for his 
5008 was on his own premises, that in fact the violet was then in 
flower on the grounds in front of his house. In the early morning 
we examined the plant. The flowers were beautifully rose-colored, 
a feature quite unusual in the genus. A mist of dew on the foliage 
brought out strikingly the minute stiff pubescence of the upper 
surface of the leaves. This and the Crowley plant proved to be 
identical. A half dozen vigorous specimens from each locality 
have the past summer been growing side by side in the Vermont 
garden. 
