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late teeth shorter than the tube: pods ascending or sub- 
erect, straight, acute, pubescent or strigulose, about 3 inches 
long, 10 to 12-seeded. 
Common in pine woods of southern Colorado, at con- 
siderable elevations; collected by myself, in fruit, below 
Marshall Pass, 4 Sept., 1896, and by Mr. C. F. Baker, at Los 
Pinos, in flower, 22 May,1899. Apparently also extending 
through the mountain districts to southern New Mexico. 
Notes oN VIOLETS. 
Wirn Prate XII. 
I have left too long unpublished the results of some 
further bibliographical study of two of our common violets ; 
and now, at least one of the nomenclatural corrections con- 
sequent upon this piece of research has already gone before 
the publie at second hand ; appearing, as it does, upon the 
labels of that distribution of herbarium specimens of violets 
which is being made from the U. S. Herbarium, and under 
the immediate direction of Mr. Pollard. "The restoration of 
the names V. fimbriatula and V. papilionacea seem to be well 
warranted, as I shall here éndeavor to indicate. 
V. FIMBRIATULA, Smith, in Rees’ Cycl. 23 Dec., 1817. 
V. primulzfolia, Pursh, Fl. i. 173 (1814), not Linn. V. ovata, 
Nutt. Gen. 148 (1818). To Mr. Nutall, equally with Sir J. E. 
Smith, must be credited the discovery that what Pursh has 
mistaken for V. primulzfolia, Linn., was a true species and 
in need of a name; for, while Smith's proposed name for it 
was published earlier by perhaps a half-year, yet the publi- 
cation was unknown to Nutall; as is evinced by the fact 
that he, like Smith, cites the V. primulzjolia of Pursh as a 
synonym. And the actual priority of V. fimbriatula over 
V. ovata was never demonstrable until Mr. B. Daydon Jack- 
