34 VIOLACE^E. (VIOLET FAMILY.) 



beardless, sweet-scented, the lower petal striped with purple. Low ground 

 and meadows, North Carolina. Petioles slender, wingless. Leaves rarely 



acute. 



* * * Flowers yellow: rootstock short and fleshy. 



9. V. rotundifolia, Michx. Nearly glabrous, stolouiferous ; leaves 

 round-cordate, the sinus closed ; petals striped with purple, the lateral 

 bearded ; spur very short. Shady woods, mountains of North Carolina and 

 Tennessee. 



2. Caulescent: perennial. 



* Stems leafy only at the summit : flowers yellow: stipules not fringed: spur 



small. 



10. V. pubescens, Ait. Pubescent; stem 6'-12' high, with a bract- 

 like stipule below the middle ; leaves broadly cordate or deltoid, coarsely ser- 

 rate ; spur very short ; capsule densely villous. Shady woods and banks in 

 the upper districts. 



Var. scabriuscula, Torr. & Gray. Nearly glabrous ; stem bractless 

 leaves smaller (!' long) ; capsule glabrous. With the type. 



11. V. hastata, Michx. Glabrous; rootstock thick and creeping; stem 

 4'- 12' high, bractless ; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate from a cordate 

 and hastate base, finely serrulate ; stipules minute ; spur very small. 

 Shaded banks, mountains of North Carolina (Michaux). Athens, Georgia 

 (Elliott). Bristol, Florida. Very rare. 



Var. glaberrima, Ging. Stem glabrate, 6'- 10' high; leaves rhombic 

 ovate, acute or truncate (rarely cordate) at the base, pubescent on the veins. 

 Dry rich woods, chiefly in the upper districts. 



Var. tripartita (V. tri partita, Ell.). Stem hairy; leaves 3 - 5-parted or 

 lobed, the divisions dentate-serrate. Upper districts, in rocky woods. 



* # Stems leaf i/ from the base ; flowers purple ; stipules fringed (except No. 15). 



12. V. canina, L. Primary stems erect, the later ones prostrate; leaves 

 broadly cordate or reniform, crenate and roughened with minute elevated 

 points, the uppermost acute ; spur obtuse, half as long as the pale purple 

 petals ; lateral petals hear.led. Damp shades in the upper districts. 



Var.? multicaulis, Torr. & Gray. Stoloniferous ; primary stems none, 

 the peduncles rising from the rootstock and the axils of the leafy stolons ; 

 leaves orbicular-cordate, crenulate, i'-l'long; flowers pale purple, y wide. 

 - Dry rocky woods, mostly in the upper districts. 



13. V. Thompsons, n. sp. Stolouiferous, nearly glabrous ; leaves or- 

 bicular-cordate, finely crenate, membranaceous, 2'-2^' long; stipules lance- 

 olate, acuminate, slightly ciliate ; sepals oblong-ovate, as long as the rostrate 

 spur ; petals purple, beardless ; capsule globose-ovate, glabrous. Shady 

 banks of streams, Smithville, Georgia (Mrs. Sarah Thonijison). April. 

 Habit of the preceding variety, with the foliage of No. 1. 



14. V. rostrata, Pursh. Stems numerous, ascending (3'- 6' long); 

 leaves cordate, serrulate ; stipules large ; spur straight, slender, longer than 

 the pale purple beardless petals; stigma beakless. Mountains of Georgia 

 and Alabama. 



