12 PLANTS BAKERIANJE. 



winged above: peduncles 3 inches long, surpassing the 

 leaves: sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous: corolla 

 about f inch wide, of rounded circumscription, the petals 

 cuneate-obovate, very obtuse or almost truncate at the 

 broad apex, all brown without, yellow within. 



On open hillsides of the Grand Mesa, 23 June, n. 225. 



V. PHYSALODES. Low, slender, the foliage very thin and 

 the whole plant glabrous, sparsely leafy ascending stems 

 well developed, 2 or 3 inches long, short-jointed and with a 

 flower in each axil : leaves from subcordate-ovate to oval, 

 obtuse, almost or quite entire, to 1 J inches long, obviously 

 veiny only beneath; pedicels barely an inch long in fruit, 

 slender, deflexed: flowers minute, apparently always apeta- 

 lous; pods also very short, subglobose or obovoid. 



In thickets along the Cimarron River, 7 June, 1901, n. 

 67. The least showy, but by far the most interesting 

 violet of all those which it has fallen to my lot to describe 

 as new. The whole plant by its thin entire glabrous leaves, 

 and numerous fruiting pedicels, always deflected beneath 

 the leaves, give the species a singular likeness to some 

 possible small Physalis. Though seeming to be altogether 

 apetalous, I nevertheless see in it a member of that yellow- 

 flowered group, of which V. NuttoMii is typical. 



V. BITERNATA. Leafy stem not well developed at first, only 

 1 or 2 inches long, but subradical leaves very long-petioled, 

 upright, 5 or 6 inches high, the peduncles of the few and 

 early petaliferous flowers about as long: leaves very ample, 

 palmately or sometimes subpinnately biternate, the primary 

 divisions broadly cuneiform, deeply trifid and their segments 

 coarsely and deeply tridentate, all the segments and teeth 

 obtuse, the margins ciliolate and veins pubescent with short 

 bristly appressed hairs: corolla f inch broad, all the petals 



