36 PITTONIA. 1 
Among Californian violets there is one which, though f 2 
some time past accepted as a variety of V. lobata, I hav 
always thought of as a species, and now find to have be 
accorded specific rank by Dr. Kellogg. 
V. Bnooxsir, Kell., Calif. Hortic. ix. 281 (1879), and Bull 
V. Brooksii is the Atlantic V. hastata. 
That very natural group of West American species at thi 
head of which V. Nuttallii should stand, has long been i 
need of a careful revision. They are difficult, no doubt 
to the dry materials due examination and comparison, 
might have done better by these species than was done by - 
author of the Synoptical Flora. But since the violets of t 
work have been published, and that author's decisions wi 
have a certain authority with many, it is necessary that on 
should at the outset call attention to certain of his pro- 
nouncements that happen to be erroneous. Under the he 
ing which includes V. pedunculata amd V. Nuttallii it i 
