NEW OR NOTEWORTHY VIOLETS. 101 
V. Watsonut, Greene, Pitt.iv,5. Through repeated sendings 
of this fine white-flowered violet from the original station by Mr. 
Watson—and the species is not otherwise at all known—I was 
long since convinced that it isin no wise to be regarded as an 
ally of such plants as V. blanda. It is simply a fine white- 
flowered relative of V. cucullata, Gistinguished readily from all 
others, not only by the clear white but the extremely narrow and. 
elongated pattern of its petals. Not even the specimens of its 
nearest ally, V. consors, which have the largest and palest of blue 
flowers, exhibit the narrow petals of V. Watsonit. 
The succeeding species bear no intimate relation to F. 
cucullata; and the first three are types of a northern, chiefly 
Canadian, group of marked peculiarities. 
V. suBviscosa, Greene, Pitt. iv. 293. I must here confess a 
grave error in the diagnosis of this species. On page 294 of the 
volume cited, much that relates to calyx and corolla is false, and 
Should be replaced by the following: lowest sepals obliguely 
lanceolate, the others oblong-linear, all obtuse, closely and evenly | 
ciliate with spreading hairs, the auricles of the three upper ones 
prominent : petals spatulate-obovate (the upper pair) and spatu- 
late (the other three), the laterals rather sparsely hairy: leaves 
at apetalous flowering stage little larger than the earlier, their 
petioles little more elongated: peduncles of apetalous flowers. 
mostly buried, fleshy-thickened and blanched above the middle ; 
Sepals only delicately ciliolate, nearly or quite equalling the 
oblong or void capsules. 
As to the above new diagnosis of flowers in this species, I may 
Say that it is necessitated by the fact of my having confused two 
Species in my original description of V. subviscosa, taking the 
_ Vegetative characters of one, and the floral characters of another. 
or some most beautiful specimens of the real V. subviscosa, such 
a8 gave me knowledge of it in its wstival stage, I am indebted 
again to President Brainerd, who obtains the plant “ under 
