NEW OR NOTEWORTHY VIOLETS. 105 
have been within the last year, to name specimens of the acaul- 
escent violets of northern New York and New England and ad- 
jacent Canada, I at first found it not easy to distinguish, in the 
dry, between V. nodosa and V. Dicksonii, both being so near each 
other and to the more westerly V. cuspidata ; and even when re- 
verting to my original diagnosis, I have more than once felt that 
only an expert phytographer could be expected to make out what 
distinctions I had found between the two; even further, I have 
mentally been on the verge of blaming myself for having pub- 
lished V. nodosa. Yet do I always come forth from these 
reiterated examinations confident as at the first of the validity 
of both species. 
At full petaliferous flowering the obvious marks of V. nodosa 
are its smaller more hairy strongly cucullate foliage, and the 
Weakness of its numerous peduncles owing to which these 
curve downwards as the petals wither; all of which points are 
manifest in specimens taken and dried at this stage. Later, 
when the petaliferous flowering is past, and the summer foliage 
is developed, this foliage (no longer cucullate) presents a strik- 
ingly deltoid outline, very different indeed from the rounded and 
cordate figure of that of V. Dicksonii. Two sheets from Mr. 
House, one of late May, 1902, the other of early June, 1901, both 
from Syracuse, N. Y., illustrate this perfectly. Of the late 
fruiting of these species, as to the original station at least, I 
know nothing, the specimens I have not showing anything more 
than a few partly hypogeous apetalous flowers. 
As to the range of V. nodosa, my own discovery extends it to 
northern Ohio and southwestern Michigan. In the middle of 
last May, near Toledo, out on a search for some possible easterly 
station for my V. cuspidata, in a low woodland where the soil 
was heavy and somewhat clayey, I found a violet which I could 
not place. I did not like its associations for any violet I had 
ever seen growing; for its neighbors were Ranunculus septen- 
trionalis, Flerkea proserpinacoides and other things affecting cold 
wet woodland shades. But my dried specimens were afterwards 
