A FASCICLE OF NEW VIOLETS. 3 
A FascictE or New VIOLETS. 
V. FALCATA. Plants solitary, the rootstock about 2 inches 
long, perpendicular, rather conspicuously nodose, the roots 
not numerous: leaves mostly 2 only, their petioles very 
strictly erect, the whole leaf a foot long or more, sparsely 
pubescent, the long petioles retrorsely hirsutulous; blade of 
broad-deltoid outline, primarily deeply cleft or even divided 
into 3 segments, of which the middle one is usually simple, 
lanceolate or rhombic-lanceolate, remotely toothed above 
the middle, or even throughout, the lateral divisions mostly 
cut into two or more lobes or subdivisions, of which the 
outer are more or less notably lunate or falcate, the leaf as 
a whole from 4 to 9 inches broad and much broader than 
long: petaliferous flowers not known, the zstival and apeta- 
lous ones subterranean, their delicate blanched peduncles 3 
to 6 inches long, horizontal, bearing round-ovoid capsules. 
In oak woods, near Cobden, Illinois, 15 June, 1898. Re- 
markable among the acaulescent violets for its large size. 
and the distinctly lunate or faleate divisions of its apparently 
compound leaves. In one of the specimens there are three 
withered aerial capsules, evidently the product of the ordi- 
nary early petaliferous flowers. 
V.cowNJuGENs. Plants tufted, often densely so, the long 
petioles and peduncles erect, the latter commonly 8 or 10 
inches high and well exceeding the leaves; herbage slightly 
succulent, deep-green, appearing glabrous, but the upper 
face of the leaves sparsely short-pubescent along the veins 
and veinlets: blade of leaf comparatively small, the lowest 
less than an inch long and broadly cordate-ovate, plane, the 
later ones 13 inches long and from cordate to cordate-sub- 
sagittate and somewhat cucullate, all with broad sinus and 
the earlier somewhat decurrent on the petiole: corollas 
