Notes on New Jersey violets'^ 



Homer Doliver House 



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(With Plates 16-18) 



During the spring and early summer of 1904, I was able to 

 make a collection and field study of the violets in the vicinity of 

 New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Several of the 

 species collected have not been previously reported from the state, 

 and this, in connection with the fact that two of them have recently 

 been described as new from Long Island,! ^^^ ^^^^ many of the 

 specimens collected are undoubted hybrids, lends particular in- 

 terest to the violets of this region. 



Among the acaulescent species, the following are either new to 

 the state or deserving of special mention. 



Viola Stoneana sp. nov. ''Viola septcmloba LeConte," Stone, 

 Proc. Acad. Phila. 1903 : 678. pL J5*. / 2; pL Jp./ J. 1903. 

 Not V. septcmloba LeConte, Ann. N, Y, Lye. 2 : 141. 1828. 

 Not *'K septemloba Le Conte," Brainerd, Rhodora 6: 16, 



* -1904. 



■ This species, so well described and figured by Mr. Stone, can 



in no way be connected with LeConte's species of Georgia, Florida 



and Alabama. The latter is well described by Mr. Pollard % 



in Small's recent Flora, and specimens from that region match 



well with LeConte's description and his unpublished plate, which 



I have been able to examine through the courtesy of Dr. E. L. 

 Greene. 



V. Stoneana is related to V. pabnata, having about the same 

 floral characters. The leaves, however, have a characteristic 

 lobation and except for the ciliated margins are nearly glabrous. 

 The capsules from the cleistogamous flowers are suberect on 

 peduncles 5-6 cm. high. The accompanying illustration (plate 



^Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



t E. P. Bicknell, in Torreya 4 : 129. 1904. 



X J. K. Small, Flora of the Southeastern United States 891. 1903. 



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