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A NEW VIOLET. 
By Franots E. Luoyp. 
While exploring in the Cascade Mountains southeast of 
Mount Hood during the last summer, a small violet came to 
my notice, which, after comparison with closely allied forms, 
proves, I think, to be a distinct species. The smallness of 
the plant, with its delicate, semi-transparent white petals, at 
once attracted my attention, and decided in my own mind its 
relationships. I shall call it 
Viola Macloskeyi. Rootstock slender, creeping, bear- 
ing three or four leaves, and at length a few runners: 
leaves reniform; sinus shallow; the lamina slightly decur- 
rent down the slender petiole, the margin obscurely crenate- 
serrate: the whole plant glabrous: stipules ovate, acute: 
peduncles 1 to 3 inches long, bearing two minute, subulate 
bracts: petals white, very thin, translucent, the spur very 
short; the lateral petals bearded, the venation of the lower 
petal indistinct. 
Mossy, springy places in the Cascades, Oregon, differing 
from V. blanda and V. palustris in the size and character of 
the spur, and by the entire absence of color from the petals, 
and their translucency. 
The species is named in honor of Professor George 
Macloskey, of the College of New Jersey, Princeton. 
