NEW OR NOTEWORTHY VIOLETS. 315 
it, of oblong-obovate outline, fully expanding, the apex al- 
most truncate but cuspidately pointed in the middle. 
The above characters are those of the upland plant of the 
northwestern states, from Wisconsin northward and west- 
ward, locally known as V. cucullata, or V. obliqua. The de- 
scription has been drawn up from four or five living plants 
as they have grown and flowered alongside their eastern 
homologue at the Catholie University, in wild land, and 
without cultivation, the plants having been transferred 
hither, last year, from Rock County, Wis. They have pre- 
sented a very striking contrast to the eastern plant, in the 
size and color of their flowers; these being only somewhat 
more than half as large in V. cuspidata, and of a deep blue 
without a tinge of that red-violet that marks the eastern one. 
The petals are also broader in proportion, the whole flower 
being thus more rounded and regular in outline, while the 
cusp of the keel-petal is quite a new character, and constant 
in all my plants. By its pubescence, and the ciliation of 
` the sepals, V. cuspidata betrays the closest affinity to that 
hairy V. palmata segregate, with lobed leaves, which is com- 
mon in open woodlands at the East. 
V. SUBSAGITTATA. Low, and the very short-petioled leaves 
depressed or ascending, the whole plant at time of petalifer- 
ous flowering often only 2 inches high,the herbage more or 
less sparsely hirsute-pubescent and the sepals ciliate: leaves 
rather narrowly cordate-ovate and small, ? to 14 inches long 
at vernal flowering, the basal lobes though rounded and 
deeply toothed, yet nearly meeting and almost closing the 
sinus: stout pedicels surpassing the leaves, their bractlets 
situated below the middle and sometimes near the base: 
corolla very large, deep-violet, often an inch long and 10 or 
11 lines wide, the two pairs of petals broad, rounded and 
slightly obovate in outline, the odd one shorter than the pair 
next to it and deeply concave, the whole five white at base, 
the lower three densely white hairy at base, the hairs not 
clavellate. 
