SOME NEGLECTED VIOLETS. 293 
flowered violets from various localities, chiefly northern, has 
led to the recognition of several more species which seem to 
have remained hitherto undescribed. 
V. Ittinoensts.  Herbage rather deep-green but lucid, 
glabrous, in no degree succulent: leaves from stoutish 
ascending branched rootstocks and of notably triangular out- 
line, the earliest cordate-deltoid, the later ones more hastate- 
deltoid, saliently crenate-serrate, acute: petaliferous flowers 
borne rather above the leaves, their bractlets inserted near 
the middle of the peduncle: sepals oblong-lanceolate, finely 
serrulate-ciliolate; petals of a pale violet-blue with an 
obvious greenish tinge, the uppermost pair darker than the 
others and with a deep-violet spot at base of blade, these 
alsolongerand broader than the second pair which are twisted 
and deflected, and hirsute at base with long slender abruptly 
clavellate hairs, the keel-petal long, almost liguliform, 
strongly veined with dark-violet: apetalous summer flowers 
on very short ascending or nearly horizontal peduncles, or 
some of them fairly underground, their short oval pods 
strongly trigonous 
This well marked woodland violet of Central Illinois is 
common in rich open woods along the Sangamon River, 
near Monticello, and is here described from specimens which, 
transmitted thence to Washington in the autumn. of 1899, 
have thriven and flowered with me during two successive 
seasons. There is no other violet with which to compare it 
as a very near relative, unless it be V. affinis, and it is far 
enough removed from that by many peculiarities. 
V. susviscosa. Rootstocks not much branched, slender, 
short-jointed and knotted; plant 4 to 6 inches high at time 
of petaliferous flowering: leaves thin, deep-green, shining 
