NEW OR NOTEWORTHY VIOLETS. 99 
very prominently and acutely auricled: corolla pale-violet, less 
than an inch broad, the spatulate obtuse petals equal and all 
similar, the laterals with a small but dense tuft of hairs: ape- 
talous flowers aerial but their peduncles short and ascending. 
This elegant violet, so easily distinguished from all other 
allies of V. cucullata by its extraordinary calyx, I know only as 
collected by myself at Oakland, Maryland, 26 May, 1902. Its 
habitat was a wet but exposed and sunny bank traversed by 
streamlets from springs. The real V. cucullata grew as plenti- 
fully in the same soil, and the marked difference in size and 
general aspect between the two led me to make specimens of both 
for examination. Inasmuch as Oakland has an altitude of about 
2,400 feet, I have suspected this of having a wider range at low 
levels in the north or northeast; but no specimens matching it, 
or even approaching it, are found in the collections of violets 
_ from New York, New England or Canada. 
V. PRIONOSEPALA. Long and slender upright or ascending , 
rootstocks, seldom with a branch or two, usually simple, the 
leaves and flowers few, the latter apt to considerably exceed the 
former, and the plant from 3 or 4 inches to 7 or 8 in height; 
herbage of a rather lighter green than in V. cucullata, thinner 
and less succulent, almost or altogether glabrous, mere hints, as 
it were, of sharp hair-points being visible under a lens along the 
upper-face nerves in some leaves, the blades in large specimens 
much larger than in V. cucullata, not cucullate, of much more 
elongated and acute cordate outline, the sinus often narrow ; 
sepals long and narrow, with somewhat prominent and acute 
auricles, the margins often interruptedly serrulate-ciliolate : 
corollas in well grown plants an inch broad, light blue-violet, 
the rather narrow obovate-spatulate keel obviously shorter than 
the others, the laterals bearded : apetalous flowers strictly aerial 
ut on rather short recurved peduncles. E 
: This appears to have about the widest range of any of the bog 
Violets, occurring from perhaps northern Pennsylvania through 
New England and eastern Canada. In my herbarium it is the 
