SOME NEGLECTED VIOLETS. 295 
now quite clearly seen to be of the present species. "These 
Vermont specimens were taken late in July, and show only 
the late apetalous fruiting; these peduncles being short and 
horizontal, but not at all subterranean. z 
V. CRENULATA. Tufted perennial with rather stout 
ascending rootstocks, the whole plant small, and with light- 
green glabrous herbage: earliest leaves from deltoid-sub- 
reniform to deltoid-ovate, obtuse, 4 to $ inch broad, on 
petioles not much larger, very closely and minutely crenate, 
the later leaves twice as large, cordate-ovate, cucullate, sub- 
serrate-crenate, on petioles 1 to 2 inches long: peduncles 
many, 3 to 5 inches long, erect, far exceeding the foliage, 
almost colorless and white-translucent, bibracteolate below 
the middle and the bractlets usually quite remote from each 
other: sepals small, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse; corolla large, 
pale-violet; petals spatulate-obvate, obtuse or retuse, the odd 
one commonly quite obcordate-notched and very strongly 
veined with dark-violet, its surface also adorned with seat- 
tered white papille, the two next to it each with a dense 
small tuft of mostly clavate hairs: late apetalous flowers on 
short abruptly deflected pedicels. 
The specimens of this very well marked violet are from 
near Syracuse, N. Y., and were communicated in a living 
state by Mr. H. D. House.. It is a bog-meadow plant, and 
this fact, along with the light-colored herbage, and flowers 
much paler than those of V. cucullata, denote its affinity for 
that species. It has petals somewhat like those of the 
Canadian V. vagula, at least as to their being retuse or even 
obeordate-notehed; but the pubescence of the petals is very 
different. The foliage of V. crenulata suggests that of the 
Canadian V. venustula by its small size and very marked cre- 
nulation. Otherwise, however, the two are very dissimilar. 
