NEW ACAULESCENT VIOLETS. 29 
changing color, the petals spatulate-oblong, mostly retuse. 
Known only as collected by myself in subalpine woods of Mt. 
San Francisco, near Flagstaff, Arizona, 10 J uly, 1889. The 
species is strongly characterized both by the peculiar roughness 
of the foliage, and by the obcordate-auricled sepals as well as 
retuse petals. 
V. GEMINIFLORA. Rootstocks slender, apparently not super- 
ficially seated nor much branched: radical leaves about 3, very 
ample, the largest 34 inches wide and 4 inches long, the very 
earliest subreniform-cordate, the others broad-cordate, cuspi- 
dately acute, the cauline also 3 only, one medial, the other two 
almost opposite at summit of stem, each of these subtending a 
short-peduncled large flower, both faces of the leaf seeming 
glabrous, a lens showing traces, on either face, of scaberulous 
hairs along some of the veins: peduncles of the two flowers equal ; 
sepals nearly linear, not auricled, or at most only obscurely so; 
petals as in V. Canadensis and equally disposed to change color 
in fading, 
Nez Perces Co., Idaho, about Lake Waha, Heller, 20 June, 
1896, n. 3281. Very beautiful species on account of its fine 
large foliage, and almost geminate white-and-purple flowers. 
SomE NEW ACAULESCENT VIOLETS. 
V. SECURIGERA. Of the V. papilionacea group but rather 
small, at least as to dimensions of leaf, but the petioles of the 
later and larger greatly elongated, 5 to 7 inches long: lowest and 
short-stalked leaves broadly cordate and subreniform-cordate, 
acute, ł to 1 inch long and about as broad, the later and large 
ones 2 to 3 inches wide near the base and much broader than 
long, 3 lobed but not deeply so, the two lateral (or basal) lobes 
semi-reniform, the terminal one not quite as large, acutely tri- 
angular, the margins of all lightly and evenly crenate, one or 
more intermediate between the early and late ones cordate- 
