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the Metasperme it was mistaken for V. sagittata, and all the 
original labels bear that name; but some recent student of 
the violets has divided the sheets between V. sagittata and 
V. fmbriatula, though of neither of these is there a specimen 
present. By the way, the referring of what I have called 
subsagittata to fimbriatula is not a new proposition, for in 
several eastern herbaria I have found this western plant 
named V. ovata rather than V. sagittata; which, indeed, is 
nearer the truth; that is to say, it is more nearly allied to 
the former than to the latter. 
The original description of this excellent geographical 
subspecies requires amendment. The leaves by no means 
uniformly exhibit those rounded lobes which almost close 
thesinus. Occasionally, as in some specimens by Burgle- 
haus, from near Minneapolis, 1892, the leaf-outline is quite 
that of V. sagittata, and even the petioles are as long and the 
leaves as erect as in that species; and here the hue and 
texture, together with the pubescence, mark the plant as V. 
subsagittata notwithstanding. The sepals in this species, it 
should have been said, are acute (though not always ciliate), 
and the peduncles glabrous. These last two marks are 
important, as being points at which the plant is in contrast 
with the following. 
11. V. secepEns, Greene, n. sp. Intimately related to V. 
subsagittata, widely different in aspect, by short and broad 
cordate-ovate leaf-blades on slender ascending petioles of 
thrice their own length; petaliferous peduncles little exceed- 
ing the leaves, glabrous above the middle, retrorsely hirsute 
below: sepals short and obtuse, glabrous, not in the least 
ciliate: corollas apparently as in the last, but apetalous 
flowers on short peduncles that are barely ascending, not 
erect, but in fruit upright, though much shorter than the 
leaves. 
The history of this segregate, as I am concerned with it, 
