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Metaspermæ, collected by Roberts, one is clearly V. Brainerdii, 
the other apparently V. blanda; certainly one of the white- 
flowered violets, far enough from being V. rotundifolia. 
V. primulzfolia, Linn. Nor is there any specimen of 
this; and its occurrence in the Minnesota Valley is not very 
positively affirmed in the Metasperme. But it is plentiful 
in certain localities not far beyond the Minnesota line, in 
Wisconsin. It must be found within the State, if indeed it 
has not been. 
V. sagittata, Ait. Of course, all in Minnesota that has 
been called by this name is my western-midland segregate 
V. subsagittata and its mutation, V. secedens, herein first 
described. 
V. palmata, Linn. The Linnean species bearing this 
name, and common enough at the East and South, on the 
Atlantic slope, does not occur either in Minnesota or else- 
where in the region of the upper Mississippi. 
NoviTates TEXANS.—I. 
The following new species, in various genera, have been 
collected mainly in Southern and Western Texas during 
the past two years by Professor S. M. Tracy. 
The field, though long worked, and by a goodly number 
of botanists, some resident, others only traveling, is still an 
inviting one; and many of the genera are in need o 
revision. The new Verbenas, which I have found it needful 
to propose here, are but one example. 
“Ciematis prcryora. Akin to C. reticulata and the foliage 
as conspicuously reticulate but much smaller, the raised 
