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2. V. odorata, L. If Sweet Violet, .1 to .15. Root fibrom ; 

 stems somewhat indurated. Leaves deeply cordate^ crenate, .03 to .04 

 long, those of summer stolons reniform-cordate ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, fringed. Flowers .03 broad ; sepals obtuse ; capsule globular, 

 pubescent — April to June. 



Var. Deliiihartii, Boiss. Stipules more or less hirsute, long 

 fringed — Woods ; central Palestine, and Gilead, to Lebanon, and 

 northward. 



Var. §uavi§, Boiss. Stipules linear-lanceolate, long fringed. 

 Lower petal retuse — Woods ; northern Syria. 



1 1 Stems Irancfied. Floioers as large as those of V. odoi^ata. 



3. V, §ylvatica, Fries. If. Wood Violet .25, nearly glabrous. 

 Leaves reniform to cordate. Stipules lanceolate, acute, long-fringed. 

 Flowers pale violet ; sepals lanceolate, acute ; capsule ovate, 3-angled 



— April to June — Woods ; middle to subalpine zone of Lebanon. 



* * Annuals. Stigma urn-sliaped, liairy at lase. 

 t Pedicels with 3 small hracts leyond the middle, usually near flower. 



4. V. tricolor, L. Pansy. .15 to .3, glabrescent or more 

 or less hairy, branching from base and above. Leaves crenate, lower 

 ovate-cordate, upper lanceolate, limb .01 to .04 long ; stipules pin- 

 natifid ; lateral lohes linear, middle oblong-sjjathulate, crenate. Petals 

 variegated, yellow, purple, and violet ; spur longer than appendices 

 of calyx — Spring — Escaped from gardens. 



5. V, parvwia, Tin. .05 to .1, villous-pubescent. Leaves 

 minute, nearly entire, the loioer nearly round, the wpi^r lanceolate to 

 linear /stipules 3-4-parted into linear lobes, the middle one longer, ob- 

 long. Petals wliite, with bluish base, shorter than calyx ; spur shorter 

 than appendices of calyx — Spring — Subalpine regions ; Jebel el 

 Fughry (Lebanon) ; Antilebanon. 



Var. calcarala, Post. Petals a little longer than sepals. Spur 

 a little longer than appendices — Heights above Bludan, Antilebanon. 



6. V, pentadactyla, Fenzl .03 to .1, retrorsely scab- 

 ridulous. Leaves entire, the lowermost round, the others spathulate- 

 ollong-linear ; stipules 'bipartite, tJie inner lobe liTce the leaf and as long, 

 the outer narrower and shorter. Corolla blue, twice as long as calyx ; 

 spur ticic^ as long as appendices of calyx — Spring — Fields ; Anti- 

 lebanon to Aleppo and Aintab. 



1 1 Pedicels hractless. Spur of corolla shorter than appendices of calyx. 



7. V. occulta, Lehm. .1, rougli, or glabrescent. Leaves re- 

 motely somewhat crenate, lower ovate, upper oblong-spathulate or 

 lanceolate ; stipules half as long as leaf, lanceolate, pinnatipartite. 

 Sepals large, growing ; appendices large-, coioWsi, pale, shorter than calyx 



— Spring — Samaria to subalpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, Cassius, 

 Aintab, and northward. 



8. V. mode§ta, Fenzl, .1 to .15, rather glabrous or pubes- 

 cent. Leaves obsoletely crenate, the lowest round-ovate, the others 

 oblong to linear-lanceolate ; stipules much shorter than leaf, linear- 



