SOME NEGLECTED VIOLETS. 285 
SomE NEGLECTED VIOLETS. 
A very considerable number of Canadian species of the 
division of purple-flowered caulescent violets have been in 
my herbarium, awaiting critical study, for a number of 
years. Nearly all of these have been furnished by Mr. J. 
M. Macoun. To these a few more have been added this 
season, by Dr. James Fletcher; and the endeavor to report 
to the latter the names of the species he has sent, has been 
made the occasion of a critical survey of this whole group, 
the known forms of which have for years past been allowed 
to be treated as representing merely a few varieties of the Old 
World V. canina; a violet which doubtless has no place in 
the North American flora; and most of the new ones herein 
defined, are established upon excellent characters. 
V. Futcrata. Low, stoutish, apparently glabrous, pale 
and glaucescent, only the margins of the leaves and stipules . 
exhibiting a few short stiff hairs: leafy stems only two or 
three inches high, the few peduncles about as long: leaves 
ovate, obtuse, often with rounded basal lobes and closed 
sinus, the whole margin lightly but distinctly erenate, the 
blade about an inch long, the petiole somewhat larger; 
stipules small, oblong-lanceolate, incisely serrate: peduncles 
firmly erect, bibracteolate below the middle, the bractlets 
almost opposite, notably herbaceous, spatulate-linear, com- 
monly with several serrate teeth: sepals broad and obtuse, 
not scarious margined, 3-nerved: corolla an inch in length, 
petals all very broad and ample (for this group), the 
keel broadest of all, equalling the others in length, obcor- 
Prrronta, Vol. IV. Pages 285-320, issued 30 Sept. 1901. 
