NEW OR NOTEWORTHY VIOLETS. 89 
V. Brainerpi. Akin to V. d/anda and V. renifolia, larger 
than either, commonly 4 inches high or more, leaves mostly ex- 
actly orbicular with deep and narrow basal sinus, the apex occa- 
sionally quite truncate, in maturity 14 to 24 inches broad, the 
petioles 2 or 3 inches long, the whole glabrous except for some 
scattered hirsutish hairs along the veins beneath, sometimes ex- 
tending to the upper part of the petioles: petaliferous flowers as 
in V. renifolia except that the petals are not glabrous, the laterals 
usually bearing a small loose tuft of hairs: capsules from late 
apetalous flowers short, darkly mottled and on much shorter 
stouter peduncles. 
This though by no means an easily differentiated segregate of 
V. renifolia, seems to be a necessary one. Its general aspect is 
exceedingly different, the large foliage, glabrous and of a vivid 
almost shining green above, seems to bea firmer texture de- 
cidedly than that of either V. d/anda or V. renifolia, which latter 
is almost hoary-pubescent on both faces, the leaves of which 
have petiole much longer in proportion than those of V. Brain- 
erdit, and capsules not only green without dots, but longer, more 
acute, and borne more uprightly, instead of horizontally or re- 
cliningly. The proposed new species has not the low swamp 
habitat of V. renifolia, but grows, like V. Leconteana, in damp 
rich woodland, on mountain sides, etc. One of its striking pe- 
culiarities, not inviting mention in the diagnosis, is that at time 
of late apetalous flowering the species has the habit of produc- 
ing, as its last leaf of the season a solitary rather long-petioled 
one, the blade of which in so far departs from the normal or- 
bicular as to be almost exactly and rather acutely cordate—pre- 
cisely the leaf of V. Leconteana—and to the influence of this 
One Leconteana leaf must be attributed the fact that the species 
is often found labelled V. amæna, Le Conte. While it is next of 
in to V. renifolia, it is not commonly found in the herbaria 
under that name. And, certainly a far more common plant in 
northern New England and Canada than that kindred species, 
its upland habitat must have helped to separate it, in the minds 
of northern botanists, from V. renifolia. | 
Pra Vou 8. ss Pages 89-106. 29, Nov. 1902. 
