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some oblong-ovate, with acute apexes and long tapering bases. Some of the 
leaves may be somewhat sub-cordate. Both lower and higher leaves are 
more or less crenate, mostly glabrous, with slight pubescence along the 
midrib and the edges of the petiole. 
The flowers are small, the largest being hardly a centimeter in width 
when full blown. The petals are white with several purple stripes on their 
inner surfaces. The pedicels may be 15 cm. or 18 cm. long or as long as 
the leaves. One or two small bract-like leaves appear about half way up 
the pedicels. If two are present they may be opposite each other or a little 
apart. The various botanies do not mention these structures nor does the 
illustration in Britton and Brown show them on this particular violet, 
although they are shown on a number of the other accaulescent species. 
Stolens are common and give off vigorous new plants. The small 
reddish-brown seeds are scarcely more than a millimeter in length. 
Viola primulifolia L., occurs in the eastern United States. Its range is 
given in the various botanies as in moist or almost dry soil from New 
Brunswick to Florida along the coast. In so far as I know it has not been 
reported in any other place in this botanical region. How it happened in 
White County, Indiana, or how general its distribution here is, 1 do not 
know. Mr. Deam, who later visited the place with me, thought it might 
occur also farther north in the State. I have looked for it, specifically, 
