14, PITTONIA 



and even variable species. 



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always sparse, is coarse and stiff, ^^ e. nearer to the hispid 

 than to the villous, and is not white. The bnds in that species 

 are unvaryingly obovate, and their pods of twice or thrice the 

 length of the stigmas. 



YlOLA PINETORUM. Caxilesceiit, the short stems tufted at 

 the end of a slender nearly horizontal rootstock or root a foot 

 long : flowering stems surpassed by the long-pednneled foli- 

 age : herbage cinereous-puberulent : leaves from oval to 

 linear-lanceolate, the broader coarsely sinuate-toothed, the 

 narrower nearly or quite entire, all tapering below to the 

 slender elongated i^eduncle ; stipules mostly scarious, lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, sparingly lacerate : flowers on long filiform 

 peduncles, small, purplish or bluish. 



Pine woods of the higher mountains south of Tehachapi, 

 Kern Co., California, 25 June, 1889. A very interesting 

 novelty, on account of its close afiinity for V. Nuttallii, but 

 having truly violet-colored petals ; all other known species of 

 the group being yellow-flowered. The plants were nearly 

 out of bloom at the late date of their discovery, and were 

 fruiling abundantly from apetalous and cleistogamous flowers; 

 the capsules short-obovate, little exceeding the sepals. 



YiOLA DouGLASii, Steudel, Nom. ii. 771 (1841), is a name 



to 



Hool 



is antedated by the obscure and little known V. chryscuitha, 

 Schrader (in Eeichenb. Ic. Exot. t. 114 (1834). Hooker's 

 date (Ic. PL t. 49) is 1S37. The homonym was repeated 

 more recently for small-flowered annual species of South 

 America ; and this plant ( F. chrysanUia, Tlulippi, Linntea, 

 xxxiii, 15. (1864), may well take the name of V. Philippiana. 



Ehamnus rubra, Greene, Pitt. i. 08 and 160. Api)nrently 

 Mr. Sonne was not the first botanical observer who, being 

 familiar with JR. Californica^ was led to ask concerning the 



