SOME NEGLECTED VIOLETS. 289 
distinetly broader, emarginate or even almost obcordate; 
spur as long as the blade, abruptly and obliquely acute at 
the end. z 
Apparently common to the eastward of the McLeod 
River, northern Alberta; collected by Mr. W. Spread- 
borough, June, 1898, and communicated to mé by Mr. 
J. M. Macoun. 
V. FILIPES. Near the last, but the proper stem almost 
obsolete, the leaves and flowers tufted at the ends of the 
fibrous root-crown or its branches; herbage glabrous: leaves 
eordate-oval, the shallow sinus often closed by the over- 
lapping of the rounded basal lobes, obtuse, remotely and 
obscurely erenate, 4 to $ inch long when young, those of 
later and fruiting specimens often more than 2 inches long, 
on almost filiform petioles of 2 to 4 inches: flowers quite 
surpassing the foliage, and on very slender peduncles; co- 
rolla little more than 4 inch wide, the petals deep purple, all 
rather narrow, the keel about equalling the others, the spur 
very long, cylindric, rather narrow, obtuse, curved upwards. 
Borders of a meadow in the half desert region of Modoc 
Co., California, June and July, 1893, Milo S. Baker. 
Remarkable in this group as being apparently acaulescent; 
the peduncles and petioles in the later and fruiting speci- 
mens very long and slender, but the proper leaf-bearing 
stem never obviously developed. 
V. CARDMINEFOLIA. Caulescent, the numerous slender 
decumbent or more depressed stems 3 to 5 inches long: 
leaves small, the subcordate-ovate obtuse minutely crenate 
blade often merely 4 inch, seldom £ inch long, of firm tex- 
ture, obscurely pulverulent-puberulent, the slender petioles 
about 1 inch long; stipules lanceolate, the lowest serrate- 
ciliate, the upper nearly entire except toward the base: 
