BRAINERD: HYBRIDS OF THE PALMATA GROUP 87 
particular hybrid, when the leaf form of V. papilionacea once 
reappears, it is kept up in the subsequent progeny; so, when the 
leaf form of V. palmata once comes back, it comes to stay. 
Another instance of a cross between V. palmata and V. papili- 
onacea was found among several plants of V. palmata from Orange, 
N.J., exhibited by Miss Angell at the “ violet symposium” at Bronx 
Park, May 1905. The plants were later set out in the New York 
Botanical Garden. On examining them the following September, 
my attention was called to a stocky plant with leaves wider and 
less deeply lobed than the rest; cleistogamous flowers were abund- 
ant, but their capsules were nearly sterile. From the few ripe 
seeds obtained, plants were propagated for three generations, with 
results quite the same as in the hybrid from Plainfield. 
In the autumn of 1906 I received from Miss A. M. Ryan of 
New London, Conn., fresh leaves and a few ripe seeds of a plant 
collected by Miss Pauline Kaufman in the vicinity of New York 
City. The leaves were quite the same as those of Mr. Miller’s 
hybrid. Two plants only were raised from the seeds sent; but 
later, a brood of offspring from ea¢h of these. The first brood 
(sowing 320) consisted of nine heterogeneous plants, proving the 
hybrid nature of the mother, as well as of the plant collected by 
Miss Kaufman. Of the second brood (sowing 592) eight plants 
were raised, all with deeply lobed leaves like the mother, and 
hardly distinguishable from normal V. palmata except by smaller 
Capsules and greatly impaired fertility. My 
I have said nothing as yet of the inheritance in these hybrids 
of pubescence from V. palmata, or of the lack of it from V. papili- 
onacea; this, however, was quite similar to the inheritance of 
lobation, or the lack of it, though not as conspicuous. The most 
™€resting circumstance was that frequently the lobed leaves 
and the pubescence of V. palmata were not both inherited by the 
Bo ering. “A-seedling with Iobed leaves would often’ be 
glabrous; and on the other hand, one with uncut leaves would 
often be pubescent and might have easily passed for V. sororia 
€xcept for its infertility. 
aberrant forms occasionally appear in the wild. In May 
ee. SaW some excellent photographs taken by Miss E. M. 
8¢ of certain anomalous violéts found near her home in 
