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House : Notes on New Jersey violets 



Petals blue or purple, rarely white. 

 Spur shorter than the petals. 

 Spur longer than the petals. 

 Annual ; stipules nearly as large as the 

 blades. 



31- 

 *32 



V, rostrata. 



33. V. Rafinesquii, 



Sets of the violets collected in Middlesex County have been 

 placed in the herbaria of the New York Botanical Garden and the 

 National Museum, and in the private herbaria of Mr. Witmer 

 Stone and President Ezra Brainerd. The first, and therefore most 

 complete set, is retained in the writer's own herbarium. 



United States National Museum, 



E^jicplanatfou of plates i6-x8 



Plate 16 



Viola Sioneana House, natural size. Ay flower capsule. By cleistogamous cap- 



sule. 



Plate 17 



Viola Brittoniana X cuctillata House, natural size. A^ cleistogamous flower 



B^ cleistogamous capsule. 



Plate 18 



Viola pecfinafa Bicknell, natural size. 



