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characteristics of the corolla of V. elegantula are very striking. 
The petals are much longer and narrower in proportion ihan 
those of V. cucullata, and the uppermost pair are deflexed, 
instead of standing upright as in other species of the group, 
It is also like the V. blanda group in respect to its greatly 
elongated peduncles which support the corollas away above 
the foliage. It is also suggestive of V. venustula to a certain 
degree, but chiefly by its small size as compared with other 
members of this group. The foliage in the last named is, 
however, of very marked character, and its flowers are of a 
dark-blue, and not borne above the foliage. 
V. vAGULA. Larger than the last, with dark-green gla- 
brous rather notably fleshy herbage: leaves at time of pet- 
aliferous flowering about an inch in diameter, somewhat 
deltoid-cordate, the length equalling or surpassing the 
breadth, the margin lightly crenate: peduncles surpassing 
the leaves, obscurely angled or semiterete, bibracteolate in 
about the middle, the rather obtuse bractlets with a few ob- 
scure glandular teeth: sepals oblong, obtuse: corolla nearly 
an inch in diameter, the breadth commonly greater than the 
length; petals deep violet, at base darkly venulose on a 
white ground, all obovate-spatulate, obtuse or notched, the 
odd one especially broad and often obcordate, the pair next 
to it bearing each a dense tuft of rather long and slender 
not in the least clavellate hairs: style not prolonged beyond 
he anthers: apetalous summer flowers aerial, but their 
peduncles short and more or less horizontal; their capsules 
short and thick, not dotted. 
Collected by Mr. J. M. Macoun, in the Ottawa district, 
and at first taken by him for V. venustula, which it resembles 
in some particulars, holding a place intermediate between 
that and V. cucullata, as to foliage being more like the latter. 
