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and slightly clammy, very sparsely appressed-hairy above, 
somewhat hirsute beneath along the veins and sparsely 
, Ciliate, in outline from cordate-reniform to broadly cordate 
` with deep and often almost closed sinus, subserrately crenate, 
the more strictly cordate ones about 2 inches in diameter 
and little longer than broad: peduncles about equalling the 
leaves, bibracteolate below the middle, more or less strongly 
hirsutulous, as are also some of the petioles: sepals oblong, 
obtuse, strongly and closely ciliate with spreading or some- 
what retrorse hairs: corolla violet, large, about 14 inches 
wide, the petals not very dissimilar, rather broadly obovate, 
the keel as broad as the others and very obtuse. 
A most beautiful northern violet, remarkable for its slen- 
der rootstocks, each bearing a few large thin dark leaves 
and common only on large flower. The species was first 
recognized by me a year ago last June, in some excellent 
specimens sent me from Prince Edward Island by Mr. L. 
W. Watson. I at once diagnosed it as new, but the manu- 
script became misplaced. This year a fine sheet of speci- 
mens was sent from Aylmer, Quebec, by Dr. J. Fletcher, 
who describes the plant as growing in open spaces 
among woods, and flowering there early in June. The 
corolla, though of a deeper color, is so much like that of V. 
septentrionalis that I at first thought of it as too near that 
species, but comparison shows a widely different rootstock, 
very different foliage, etc. V. septentrionalis has a heavier 
foliage, of a light green shade, wholly devoid of clamminess, 
each leaf with a broad open sinus, and each branch of its 
stout rootstock produces a considerable cluster of leaves and 
flowers. I may remark, lastly, that some specimens re- 
ceived from Dr. Ezra Brainerd, collected in damp woods 
near Pleiad Lake, western Vermont, in 1899, and which I 
then referred with some hesitation to V. septentrionalis, are 
