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easily separate these. Now from the northern region whence A 
‘comes the original of V. populifolia I have never heard of the — 
discovery of a palmatifid or eyen incised-leaved state of it; nor 
has any violet of such cut been communicated from Ontario. 
Neither does Mr. Pollard report any uncut-leayed state of his 2 
V. Angelle; and, among the difficulties of the situation are — 
questions like this which intrude themselves: may not a violet 
as variable as this in foliage appear in one locality under one 
form of leaf only; in another under another one only of its 
several leaf-phases ? 
I must here mention a somewhat similarly variable violet— 
possibly the same species—forms of which I have from Mr- 
Homer D. House of northern New York. The specimens were — i 
collected near Syracuse, in May of this year. Those with leaves 
uncut are broader than those of mine, decidedly deltoid in out- 
line and seemingly not cucullate. This, Mr. House has some- 
where learned to call V. palmata asarifolia ; though the original ee 
of V. asarifolia is to be a plant common in the low country of © 
Virginia and southward, one which I confidently identify and 
familiarly know, as a thing most unlike the New York plant 
Then Mr. House names his variously incised or palmatifid form 
simply V. palmata, Linn., a name the exact application of which 
is altogether too graye a question to entertain at present. 
I make mention of this particular case of good field work done : 
by Mr. House partly because he is convinced of the specific unity — 
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of the various forms, and partly because I think it possible that — 
the plant from New York and mine from the Maryland mount- — 
ains may, after further research and fuller comparison, come to — 
be rationally regarded as one, 
V. NEPETHFOLIA. Acaulescent, the stoutish rootstocks mul- i 
ticipitous, the leaves and flowers therefore in considerable tufts, 
the whole 5 to 7 inches high at full petaliferous flowering; her- 
bage glabrous, or the veins of some leaves showing a row of 
short ascending hairs arising from the midvein and some of its — : 
branches: leaves of thin texture and small, mostly cordate- _ 
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