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rounded outline and very open, an inch broad, the length obvi- — 
ously less, all the petals broad and obtuse, the two uppermost 
largest, the keel as long as any, broadly spatulate, the laterals 
densely bearded with clavellate hairs, the color of the whole 
rather deep violet (fading to almost white in the dry): apetalous , 
summer plant 4 to 10 inches high, the variously deltoid-subreni- 
form leaf-blades 14 to 34 inches broad, the length much less, 
margin lightly subsertate-crenate: apetalous flowers on short 
horizontal hypogeous peduncles gradually thickened upwards: 
capsules of such elongated and mottled. 
This very satisfactory new violet is from Twin Mountains, 
West Rutland, Vermont, and was collected May 24 and July 15 
of 1902, by Mr. W. W. Eggleston, who writes that it grows in 
open shady well drained soil. Its affinities seem to lie with 
what I have been calling V. affinis, Le Conte, from which, how- — 
ever, it differs not less in the firmer texture of its herbage than 
in the remarkable breadth of both its leaves and flowers. 
V. PERAM@NA. Rootstocks short, not stout, multicipitous, — 
giving rise to largeand close tufts of leaves and flowers, the whole — 
plant commonly 10 inches high, the petioles and peduncles of 
about equal length, rather slender ; herbage dark-green and 
nearly or quite glabrous, the corolla of a rich violet: leaves all 
cordate-reniform, about as broad as long, none large (for a plant 
so tall), ł to 14 inches wide and long, very regularly but rather 
lightly fine-crenate, the earlier plane, those developed simulta- 
neously with the flowers strongly cucullate, these developing — 
short scattered appressed stiff hairs above : peduncles with a pair 
of small subulate very green-herbaceous bractlets in about the — 
middle: sepals all short and obtuse, glabrous, the two lowest ob- 
long-ovate, subfaleate, the others narrower and straight: petals 
subequal, all but the odd one with broad rounded limb, and this 
of spatulate outline. 
Species known only as collected by myself, on the moist grassy _ 
banks of a ditch, a mile or so to the eastward of the village of 
Marengo, southern Michigan, 22 May, 1902. Its affinities are — 
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