NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 259 
duneles notably shorter than the leaves, their bractlets long 
and almost filiform : petals small, narrow, white, but seeming 
brownish by the multitude of the dark parallel fine veins. 
Florida, collected by Canby and by Curtis; also in south- 
eastern Texas, E. Hall. Referred by all these collectors to 
V. lanceolata ; but more unlike that than that is unlike V. 
primulafolia, and readily distinguished by its short-petioled 
long vittaria-like leaves, and short-peduncled very venulose 
petals, long slender bractlets, etc. 
Viota CAROLINA. Acaulescent and depressed, the root- 
stock stout and well elongated, the herbage rather thick and 
subsucculent: leaves mostly cordate-ovate and very obtuse, 
or the lowest round-cordate and as broad as long, none much 
exceeding an inch in length, all with broadly rounded basal 
lobes and a deep narrow sinus, the margins crenulate, not 
notably ciliate, the whole upper surface minutely hirsutulous, 
4nd this pubescence dense on the very short petioles and pe- 
. duncles, these being almost plushy: peduncles little exceed- 
ing the leaves; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, only slightly 
ciliolate or not at all so: blue corolla rather more than 3 
ineh broad, the petals with obovate-oblong blades, scarcely 
airy at base; spur very prominent, thick, and broadly 
Saccate-dilated at the end. 
Dry ground near Wilmington, North Carolina, May, 1867, 
Mr. Canby ; also by the same, near Savannah, Georgia, May, 
1858. Referred to V. cucullata by Mr. Canby, to which the 
broad rounded leaves might suggest an affinity; but it is of 
the V. sagittata group, and nearest V. ovata, but wholly dis- 
tinct from that by its depressed habit, broad leaves with 
rounded basal lobes and narrow sinus; the pubescence also 
 Yery different. In the much enlarged spur it departs from 
he character of the group to which it belongs. 
: Vioua PEDATIFIDA var. BERNARDI. Differs from the type 
ln that the leaves are merely palmately lobed, the lobes 
