A FASCICLE OF NEW VIOLETS. 5 
V. Misrasstnica. Allied to V. blanda, but the rootstock 
elongated, stout, short-jointed, clothed with the persistent 
bases of the petioles of former years: plant at flowering time 
2 to 4 inches high, the peduncles and petioles erect, of some- 
what equal length; herbage of delicate texture, light-green 
and glabrous: leaves round-reniform to orbicular, obtuse 
but with a short salient cusp at the apex, the margin rather 
notably dentate or crenate-toothed : sepals oblong or oblong: 
lanceolate, obtuse: corolla 3 inch in diameter, the petals all 
broad and obtuse and glabrous, the lowest (or keel) not only 
purple-veined but the purple color diffused over the whole 
petal, the others pure white. 
This rather strongly marked white violet is known to me 
only in herbarium specimens from northeastern British 
America. The type sheets are three, all belonging to the 
herbarium of the Canadian Geological Survey, and num- 
bered as follows: 2,353, from damp mossy woods about Lake 
Mistassini, collected in July, 1885, by J. M. Macoun, the 
specimens only in full flower at that date: also n. 4,342 
from West Branch, Hamilton River, Labrador, A. P. Low, 
20 June, 1894, these in early flower, the leaves small: and 
n. 16,286, from along Richmond Gulf, east shore of Hudson’s 
Bay, Mr. Spreadborough, 30 June, 1896; these specimens 
large and rank, barely in good flowering condition. From 
all its allies V. blanda, renifolia and amena, this is readily 
distinguished by its stout scaly-looking and elongated root- 
stock, and by its notably toothed foliage, the leaves in all 
the others being crenate, the proper teeth never salient but 
on the contrary almost obsolete. The cuspidately apiculate 
eharacter of the leaf is also quite constant; and so is the 
deep color of the lower petal. The species is probably not 
stoloniferous. 
V. Watsonu. Allied to V. blanda but much larger, 
similarly light-green as to herbage, and somewhat succu- 
lent; leaves relatively smaller, on elongated and stoutish 
