NEW OR NOTEWORTHY VIOLETS. ae 
doubtless with V. cucullata, from which it is readily distin- 
guished by the-deep-green of its herbage, the slender character 
of its petioles and peduncles, the short broad very obtuse sepals, 
and both the great breadth and deep coloration of its petals. 
By the large size, rich color and great profusion of flowers all 
fully exposed beyond or amid the foliage, this is most showy 
wild violet I have ever seen. 
While I mention it as being related to V. cucullata, I must not 
have it to be inferred that this is one of the bog-meadow violets. 
Its habitat is rather that of uncommonly moist and rather low 
prairie land far enough from being swampy or boggy. 
Out of a very extensive collection of violets made by my es- 
teemed correspondent, Mr. John Macoun, in southwestern On- 
tario in 1890, duplicates of which were sent me a year ago, I 
select a number of sheets that belong undoubtedly to this pro- 
posed new species. This is of course closely adjacent to that 
_ part of Michigan whence the type specimens are derived. His 
numbers 33,878 and 33,880, both Niagara, Ont., I confidently 
refer here; also less confidently his 33,893 from Sandwich (just 
across the Detroit River from southeastern Michigan), and 
33,876 from Amherstburgh (of which Mr. Macoun himself re- 
marks: “This seems to be new ”), for the sepals of these last 
are quite too narrow for typical V. peramena. Still others of 
his herbarium numbers from the Ontario collection I place with 
_ this only provisionally and with a feeling of uncertainty. One 
of these (n. 33,874,-from Windsor, 5 June) is interesting as 
being in fruit only, and exhibiting capsules up among the leaves, 
all from flowers that were petaliferous; capsules, too, very dif- 
ferent indeed from those of any near ally of V. cucullata. 
V.orassvuLa. Rootstocks short, stout, branching; the tufted 
leaves and flowers 4 or 5 inches high, their stalks stoutish, 
rather succulent, as also the smallish leaves, the plant wholly 
glabrous as to the younger growth, but petioles of later leaves 
quite strongly villous-hirsute, the hairs slightly deflected, herbage 
of a light-green, but leaves mostly reticulate-veiny and purplish 
