526 BRAINERD: FIVE NEW SPECIES OF VIOLA 
Viola Lovelliana sp. nov. 
Plant often minutely hoary-pubescent on the upper part of 
the petiole and the adjacent lower surface of the blade, the pubes- 
cence elsewhere sparse and obscure; leaves cordate at base, 
earliest often uncut, later ones hastately 3-lobed, the middle lobe 
much the longest, lanceolate, sometimes contracted at the base 
and undulately serrate, the lateral lobes divaricate, either lunate 
or variously 2-3-cleft; leaves at petaliferous flowering 2-5 cm. 
long, those of late summer twice as long, often less deeply cut, 
or uncut; flowers violet-purple, on petioles often taller than the 
leaves, the three lower petals villous at the throat and marked with 
dark purple lines; cleistogamous flowers and immature fruit on 
prostrate peduncles; ripe capsules purple-dotted, trigonous-ellip- 
soid, about 14 mm. long, 7 mm. thick; sepals broadly lanceolate, 
acute, one third the length of capsule; auricles short, appressed, 
rounded, sparsely ciliate; seeds buff, 2 mm. long.—Sparsely wooded 
hillsides and knolls; from southern Louisiana to eastern Oklahoma. 
Live plants of this, as an unknown species, were sent me in 
March, 1906, by Mrs. Phoebe Lovell, of Crowley, La. The plants 
did well in the garden; and mature leaves and fruit from cleistog- 
amous flowers were obtained the following August, and petalif- 
erous flowers in the spring of 1907. On my southern journey in 
March, 1908, I visited the station, a recent pine-chopping on loamy 
clay, more or less broken by low ravines. Four additional live 
plants were shipped home, and from each of these, and from their 
seedlings in 1909, many specimens were made of the mature plant. 
The species turns out to be a common one in the western portion 
of the territory covered by Dr. Small’s Flora. In April, 1908, 
I collected it in open woodlands near Muskogee, Okla., a mile from 
' the Arkansas River; also, in the same state, under dwarf oaks on 
the slopes of a rocky hill at Eufaula, and in the vicinity of Stigler. 
In March, 1910, I obtained beautiful specimens at Mansfield, 
La., in a piece of woodland cut up by deep ravines; and also at 
Mena, Ark. I have in addition to these specimens one from 
Texarkana, Ark., ‘‘Pine woods, April 6, 1905, B. F. Bush, no. 
2237. ° 
Viola Egglestonii sp. nov. 
Plant acaulescent, of spreading habit, especially when young; 
leaves truncate at base, often flabellately decurrent, rarely sub- 
cordate; early leaves simply 3-5 lobed, later ones 3-parted, with 
