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dilated, shorter than the petals ; spur recurved, very short ; flowers 



sparingly punctate ; leaves rhombic-ovate, mucronately toothed. 

 HAB. Wet shady places. August, <v) ; stem % feet high, tender and 



succulent ; leaves alternate ; flowers yellow ; seeds elliptical. 

 I. fulva : peduncles solitary, 3 4-flowered ; nectary acutely conic, 



longer than the petals; spur resupinate, emarginate, nearly as long 



as the galea ; flowers with crowded spots ; leaves rhombic-ovate, 



obtuse, mucronate toothed. 

 HAB. Wet shady places. August, <v>; plant glauc. and diaph. ; 



capsule 5-angled, 3 5 seeded ; seeds prismatic. 



116. VIOLA. Violet. 



* Stemless. 

 t Flowers blue. 



V. pedata ; leaves pedate, nearly smooth, about 7-parted ; segments 

 linear-lanceolate, entire; stigma large, obliquely truncate, and per- 

 forate at the apex. 



HAB. Rocky hills and dry woods. May, r l\.; leaves with obtuse seg- 

 ment ; stip. ciliate ; flower large, pale blue. 



V. palmata ; pubescent ; leaves cordate, (rarely entire,) palmate, or 

 hastate-lobed ; lobes crenate and toothed, the middle one much the 

 largest ; 2 lateral petals bearded ; stigma margined, depressed. 



HAB. Low grounds. May, 1\.- y leaves never smooth; stip. lanceo- 

 late ; flower middle-sized ; stigma rostrate. 



V. ovata : leaves ovate, subcordatc, crenate, often lacerately toothed at 

 the base, pubescent on both sides ; petiole margined ; segments of 

 the calyx oblong-lanceolate, hairy. 



HAB. Dry hills. April May, 7J-; leaves generally almost woolly 

 flower middle-sized stigma recurved, rostrate. 



V. cucullata : very smooth ; leaves cordate, cucullate at the base, ser- 

 rate ; stipules linear ; inferior and lateral petals bearded. 



HAB. Wet meadows. April May, % ; leaves subrenif. on long 

 petioles ; beard of the petiole rigid. 



t t Flowers yellow. 



V. rotundifolia : leaves orbicular-ovate, cordate, slightly crenate, near- 

 ly smooth ; sinus closed ; petiole pubescent ; lateral petals bearded 

 segments of the calyx obtuse ; spur nearly obsolete. 



HAB. Shady rocky woods. May, 1}. ; leaves appress. to the earth, 

 on short pet. ; pet. broad ovate, striate. 



t I" t Flowers somewhat regular, small, white. 



V. lanceolata : leaves very smooth, lanceolate, attenuated into a peti- 

 ole at the base, rather obtuse, subserrate ; petals beardless. 



HAB. Wet meadows. April May, Tj.; leaves 2 4 in. long, very 

 narroic ; flower inodorous, veined. 



V. acuta '; leaves ovate-lanceolate, smooth, abruptly decurrent at the 

 base ; bracts lanceo'ate-linear ; petals acute, of nearly equal length, 

 beardless 



