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New or NOTEWORTHY VIOLETS. 
| V. EMARGINATA, Le Conte. This most interesting violet 
is now known to me as occurring as far northeastward as 
the vicinity of New York City, where the uncut and char- 
acteristically trigonous leaf-outline appears to predominate. 
Very recently the species has come to me from, where I did 
not at all expect it, southern Michigan. Mr. 0. A. Farwell 
obtains it in the neighborhood of Detroit. His specimens 
are labelled “V. ovata,” and are the first V. emarginata spec- 
imens seen by me failing to exhibit the triangular leaf-out- 
line. The leaves are all either exactly cordate-ovate or sub- 
sagittate-oblong; but in spite of this new leaf-cut, the plant 
is unmistakably V. emarginata. 
Southward and southwestward, even as far as to Louisiana 
and at least eastern Texas, the species seems to occur in fairly 
typical condition; though from the mountains of eastern 
. Tennessee we have a deviation from the type so marked as to 
= deserve at least a varietal name. I shall call it var. SUB- 
= SINUATA. Its leaves, though of not indistinctly trigonous 
- outline, are all subpinnately and subsinuately deeply toothed 
or parted, even the small broad early ones are thus almost 
lobed rather than merely toothed. There are more evident 
traces of pubescence here than in ordinary V. emarginata, and, 
ifin the living plant a different texture of herbage should 
reveal itself, I should not doubt the specific distinctness of 
| this form; because its peduncles are more slender, appar- 
= ently not erect, and the flowers are notably larger; while 
. the capsules (from the later apetalous flowers), are remark- 
_ ably small and short. 
_ The only specimens seen are in the herbarium of my 
3 Prrroxia, Vol. III. Pages 313-320. 7 May, 1898. 
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