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white roots: leaf-blade about 14 inches long by 1 inch 
broad, of deltoid outline but with rounded and cucullate 
basal lobes, the margin lightly but evenly crenate; sepals 
lanceolate and lance-oblong, definitely auriculate, nerveless, 
obtusish, glabrous throughout: corolla rather more than } 
inch broad, apparently blue, the petals subequal, narrow, 
two of them sparingly bearded: peduncles of apetalous buds 
short, ascending or almost horizontal. 
This is clearly a new member of the natural group of Wet 
Meadow Violets, of which V. cucullata is the type. The 
whiteness of the rootstock and roots clearly indicates 4 
boggy and perhaps sphagnous habitat. The sheets of type 
material are three; one from Red Wing, by Sandberg, in 
1886, the label bearing the note “Wet places;” one from 
Minneapolis, by T. J. McElligott, 5 May, 1891; one from 
Lake Johanna, by E. P. Sheldon, April 1895. Over and 
above these, I place under the same species cover a plant 
from Red Wing, by Sandberg, in 1886, which is like the 
others except that the leaves are smaller, the flowers larger 
and on more elongated petioles, and the plant is said to in- 
habit “Sandy woods.” The rootstock in these two specimens 
is wanting. 
The plant can be no rarity in Southern Minnesota, and it 
is to be hoped that resident students of the genus may take 
pains to collect the plant again, and in its later stages; and 
that they may make full notes of its habitat and its 
associations. 
10. V. SUBSAGITTATA, Greene, Pitt. iii. 315. There are 4 
dozen sheets of this in the Minnesota collection, the labels 
collectively indicating that it is a common violet in the 
southeasterly portion of the State, with no evidence of its — 
occurrence either in the northeastern lake region, or in that 
prairie district which embraces all western Minnesota. In 
