624 BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 
*VIOLA PRIMULIFOLIA L. 
Less common than the ieatic and often found in drier soils. 
In full flower May 31, 1908, June I, 1909; last flowers June 17, 
1910, June I5, I9II. 
VIOLA PALLENS (Banks) Brainerd. 
Common in open sphagnum bogs and meadows and in damp 
thickets. No flowers left May 31, 1908, June 7, 1909; still bloom- 
ing June 3, 1910, a few last flowers June 8, IgII. 
A form of distinct appearance was found in several wet sphag- 
num bogs, especially in one near Shawaukemmo Spring. It is 
strictly glabrous throughout, the scapes and petioles delicately 
streaked with pink, the leaf blades unusually thick and veiny, 
becoming as large as 5 cm. in breadth, and varying in shape from 
long-ovate and deeply cordate to broadly cordate-reniform; 
petioles sometimes 9 cm. long; longer peduncles 1.5 dm.; capsules 
green; seeds 1-1.25 mm. long, dark gray to nearly black when 
mature. Doctor Brainerd, who has examined specimens, regards 
it as a form of Viola pallens. 
Note-—Viola blanda Willd. which proves to be common on 
Marthas Vineyard is to be looked for on Nantucket. 
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