Violets of the United States. 153 



V. striata appears to be it. This plant has unaccountably 

 been referred by most writers, to one species having blue, 

 and to another having yellow flowers, although Michaux says 

 that the flowers are white. 



V. radicans (Decand. prod. 297. No. 38.) appears to be 

 very distinct ; it was found by the younger Michaux in South 

 Carolina, probably in the mountains. 



V. Selkirkii, Pursh. (ibid. 305. No. 97.) deserves inquiry 

 into; it is said to inhabit the mountains near Montreal. 



V. Alleghanensis. Roem. et Schultes, syst. 5. p. 360. like- 

 wise appears to be distinct, but may be nothing more than 

 si variety of V. ovata. 



There is a species of this genus inhabiting the calcareous; 

 regions of the state of New-York, which I have never seen 

 in flower, and which I have failed in cultivating. It is stolo- 

 niferous; leaves appressed to the earth, round-ovate, of a 

 thin texture, pale yellowish-green, and polished on the upper 

 surface, with a considerable villosity ; beneath perfectly 

 smooth, with a remarkable shining bluish tinge. Another 

 species is met with in the same country, which appears to 

 belong to my third section, the leaves of which are oblong- 

 ovate, and more rugous than the V. blanda, to which it 

 bears considerable resemblance. I have also seen in the 

 mountains of North Carolina, where the road passes over 

 Ivy Hill, a stoloniferous species, with leaves resembling those 

 of the V. cucullata, and which ought to produce violet- 

 coloured flowers. 



In North Carolina, on the banks of the French Broad 

 river, near the borders of Tennessee, is a smail leaved caules- 

 cent violet, perfectly decumbent, forming complete sods ; of 

 its inflorescence 1 know nothing ; this may be the Viola uli- 

 ginosa of Mr. V. Schweinitz, if that prove to be really distinct 

 from the V. Muhlenbere;iana. 



