A FASCICLE OF NEW VIOLETS. 7 
2 May, 1896, and named by me V. cognata at the time; but 
that species, besides being slender and with slender root- 
stock, has foliage of rounded outline. In the new one the 
leaves are trigonous rather than rounded, the rootstock 
stout and erect, and the whole plant of a very different 
aspect. 
V.cYCLOPHYLLA. Root unknown, the tufted leaves and 
flowers terminating a horizontal scaly caudex; the whole 
plant glabrous: leaves orbicular, about an inch in diameter, 
cordate at base with nearly or quite closed sinus, crenate, 
on petioles of an inch in length or a little more: stout 
peduncles twice the length of the leaves, bibracteolate far 
below the middle: sepals lanceolate, thin, nerveless, scari- 
ous-margined ; corolla blue, nearly 3 inch broad, somewhat 
orbicular, all the petals extremely broad and rounded 
(round-obovate) marked by dark violet veins toward the 
base and all wholly glabrous. 
Collected at Yellow Head Pass in the Rocky Mountains 
of British Columbia, 13 July, 1898, by Mr. W. Spreadbor- 
ough, and communicated by Mr. Macoun; being n. 19,298 
of the Geol. Survey Herbarium. 
The following violets have hitherto been recognized by 
us under names that are untenable : 
V. ALSOPHILA. V. amena, Le Conte, Lyc. N. Y. ii. 144, 
the name precluded by the V. amena of Symons, Syn. PI. 
Brit. 198 (1798). The species is seen to be one of the best 
when one has given due attention to the floral characters. 
Not only is V. alsophila a woodland plant, whereas V. blanda 
is of boggy meadows, but its petals are twice as large, and 
remarkably narrow, the two uppermost being quite ligulate, 
strongly deflected, and twisted almost like the sepals of some 
orchids. On my first beholding, three years since, the living 
