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most abundant of all plants that have, since 1896, been called 
V. cucullata, though sometimes it has come in labelled V. afims, 
What has of late induced me to make a critical study of the 
plant has been a most beautiful and complete series of speci- 
mens from western Vermont, sent by Mr. Ezra Brainerd in large 
part, and others just as fine, in less copiousness, by Mr. Willard 
Eggleston. Mr. Brainerd assigned no specific name to his speci- 
mens, but informed me, early last summer, that he thought it 
undescribed. Earlier examples of it are found among my sheets _ 
of so-called V. cucullata communicated by Mr. James M. Macoun, — 
such as the Canad. Surv. n. 18,972 from Chelsea, Quebec, 18985 
and there is another from the same station, approximately at 
least, communicated by Dr. Fletcher under n. 8. I infer this 
species to be an inhabitant of sphagnous swamps, for the long 
slender often perpendicular rootstocks, as also the roots, are 80 — 
clean and white as to give the suggestion that they were never 
in contact with any soil, but grew in the midst of sphagnum — 
beds. ‘ 
V. consors. Allied to the last, usually less than half as 
large, often only 2 inches, rarely 5 or 6 in height; leaves and | 
flowers few, the former of a very light-green, smaller, more in- ; 
clined to be obtuse and cucullate: sepals very narrow, lance — 
linear, scarious-margined, the scarious border occasionally and 
here and there cut into serrate teeth, more commonly quite 
entire: corolla light-bluish (sometimes even pale-blue), from — 
ł to 1 inch long, the petals narrow, oblong-spatulate, subequal, 
the laterals bearded: late apetalous flowers on shorter upright 
or merely ascending peduncles. a 
This violet, in its larger forms, verging towards both V. pri- 
onosepala and V. Watsonii, I have long striven to refer to one oT 
the other of those two, but vainly. It has its own marks. It 
comes from Prince Edward Island, communicated by Mr. L. W- 
_ Watson, of Charlottetown. It grows in mossy (not sphagnous) 
` bog lands in the open and with the species last named, and com- 
monly elsewhere apart from that. . 
