PLANTS OF southern; NEW JERSEY. 565 



cc. Flowers white. 



d. Leaves lanceolate. V. lanceolata, p. 571 



dd. Leaves ovate, acute. V. primulifolia, p. 571 



ddd. Leaves heart shaped. 



e. Stem not spotted. V. pallens, p. 570 



ee. Stem red spotted. V. blanda, p. 570 



bbb. Style dilated upward, beakless, flowers yellow, leaves round, cordate. 



V. rotundifolia, p. 570 

 aa. Plants with leafy stems. 



b. Style capitate, beakless, bearded at the summit, flowers yellow. 



c. Plant softly pubescent, root leaves often wanting, stem leaves 



often over 7 cm. wide. V. pubescens, p. 571 



cc. Plant sparingly pubescent, root leaves usually 1-2, stem leaves 



smaller. V. scabriuscula, p. 572 



bb. Style not capitate, slender, stipules fringed-toothed. 



c. Flowers white. V. striata, p. 572 



cc. Flowers pale violet. V. conspersa, p. 572 



bbb. Style much enlarged upward into a globose, hollow summit, stipules 



large, leaf-like, lyrate pinnatifid, flowers bluish white, tinged with 



yellow. V. raHnesquii, p. 572 



Flozvering and Fruiting Data. — The flowering season indi- 

 cated is that of petaHferous flowers. Under "fruit of cleisto- 

 genes" is given the approxinnate time when ni'ature capsules 

 are usually present. 



The flowers of violets are of two kinds. The showy petal- 

 iferous blossoms appear early, and only regularly produce fruit 

 in a few species. The small green apetalous flowers (cleisto- 

 genes) appear later, and generally produce fruit abundantly. 

 The characters of the cleistogenes, the seeds and the capsules, are 

 very important in the systematic study of the genus. 



Viola pedata lineariloba DC. Bird-foot Violet. 

 PL LXXXV. 

 Viola pedata var. lineariloba DeCandoUe, Prodr. L 291. 1824, based on 

 Curtis Bot. Mag. pi. 89 [Virginia].— Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1903, 681. 

 Viola pedata Barton, Fl. Phila. L 120. 1818. — Knieskern 7. — Willis 9. — 

 Britton 55. 



Dry sandy soil ; occasional through the northern counties, 

 common in the Middle district and down the Coastal strip to 

 Cape May; rare and apparently introduced in the Pine Barrens. 



The Bird-foot Violet, so different from all the other species, 

 with its orange cluster of stamens and large lilac purple flowers, 



