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the asterisk after any form denoting its occurrence at the Sala- 
manca station. 
I B 1s Reversion to typical V. triloba. 
2 4 b i New and stable form, glabrous V. triloba. 
3 Bb * Cut-leaved form, hybrid as respects pubescence. 
4 B ™ New and stable form, pubescent V. latiuscula. 
5 ; b * Reversion to typical V. latiuscula. 
6 Bb 
7 B * Pubescent form, hybrid as respects lobation. 
8 Aa) b * Glabrous form, hybrid as respects lobation. 
9 Bb * Dihybrid, V. latiuscula X triloba. 
The one form lacking should be a somewhat pubescent plant 
with uncut leaves. The proof that we have here a colony of 
V. latiuscula X triloba will be convincing to one familiar with the 
behavior of hybrids. 
Three hybrids of V. hirsutula, one with each of our three cut- 
leaved species, call for a few brief comments. 
Viola hirsutula X triloba nom. nov. 
V. palmata X villosa Brainerd, Rhodora 8: 56. Mr 1906. Cf. 
House, H. D. Violets of the District of Columbia, Rhodora 8: 
121. Jl1906. The former name of each parent species has proved 
to be untenable.* 
This beautiful and easily recognized hybrid is of frequent 
eccurrence from northern New Jersey to the mountains of North 
Carolina and eastern Tennessee. A most interesting colony, of a 
hundred or more plants, was found at Morristown, Tenn., on a 
tract of woodland recently cleared and worked to be made an 
addition to a cemetery. The plants were reverting in various 
Ways to the characters of one or the other of the original parents. 
Some were large in size, others small; some had lobed leaves, others 
not; most had both the silvery pubescence of V. hirsutula on the 
Upper surface of the leaf and the villous pubescence of V. triloba 
©n the lower surface of the leaf, but occasionally one or the other 
form of pubescence was nearly or quite lacking. Not only 
from these, but from a plant sent me October 1907 from Orange, 
N. J., by Miss A. M. Ryan, I have raised unlike offspring, some 
with uncut leaves, some with leaves mostly lobed. In Mr. 
* 
See Rhodora 9: 96-98, Je 1907; and Bull. Torrey Club 37: 584-587. D 1910. 
