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the later surpassing them : corolla large for the plant, often 
4 inch or more in breadth, deep violet-blue; petals broad, 
obtuse, the odd one well expanded, nearly equalling the 
others, truncate or retuse, only the two laterals bearded at 
base with clavellate white hairs: earliest apetalous flowers 
on slender peduncles equalling the leaves, but all the later 
ones short peduncled and almost or altogether subterranean ; 
capsule very short and thick, roundish-obovate. 
Inhabiting wet meadows and growing upon tussocks along 
with V. blanda, near Rideau Hall, Ottawa, 23 May, 1898, 
J. M. Macoun, n. 18,565 of Geol. Survey. Also from Char- 
lottetown, Prince Edward Island, by Mr. Laurence Watson. 
Quite analogous to the more southerly bog-meadow violet, 
i. e., the true V. cucullata, but very distinct by its small size, 
deep violet corollas of large size for the plant, and especially 
by its short and almost globose capsules. 
V. cUCULLATA, Ait. Kew. iii. 288; Smith in Rees’ Cycl; 
Greene, Pitt. iii. 143. "This excellent species, suppressed by 
all recent students of North American violets, until the 
present writer, two years since, indicated for the first time 
in its history the real characters by which it could always 
be distinguished, is now again freely admitted by all who 
have studied it and its allies in the light thus newly thrown 
upon the subject. My doubts, then frankly expressed as to 
the identity of this blue-flowered bog-meadow violet with 
Aiton's plant, have been banished. "The fuller account of 
V. cucullata, given by Smith in Rees Cyclopedia, at a time 
when the original was probably still growing at Kew, and 
perhaps in other London gardens, seems to leave little if any 
room for question that this, the most strongly and most per- 
manently cucullate-leaved of all our violets, is the one which 
the author of the Hortus Kewensis had in view as V. cuculiata. 
That the species extends into Canada is made certain by 
some very fine sheets of specimens, obtained this year by 
Mr. Macoun. Its number, in the collection of the Canadian 
Survey, is 18,747. oe 
