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divergent stems from amid the tuft of spreading basal 

 leaves; herbage glabrous, except some hirsute hairiness at 

 base of stem, and very glaucous : radical leaves petiolate, 

 cauline numerous, narrowly cordate-ovate, sessile and clasp- 

 ing, entire, an inch longer more: flowers white, the greenish 

 sepals somewhat spreading, the petals with broad claw and 

 spreading spatulate-obovate limbs : spreading pedicels of the 

 pod very slender, the pod itself narrow, not stipitate, an inch 

 long or more. 



Stony hillsides at Cimarron, 6 June, n. 32. This is a 

 very near ally of Miss Eastwood's T. aureum, but its flowers 

 are white, and the pods are not stipitate. 



THELYPODIUM LILACINUM. Biennial, two or three feet high 

 with rather many ascending branches from near the base, 

 all racemose at the end; herbage deep-green and glabrous; 

 basal leaves 2 or 3 inches long, spatulate-oblong, entire or 

 repand, cauline reduced, lanceolate to nearly linear: flowers 

 corymbosely crowded, but the raceme lengthened in fruit 

 to 4 or 5 inches; sepals erect, rich lilac-purple, of less than 

 half the length of the spatulate-linear petals, these at first 

 white but soon changing to the lilac of the sepals: pods 

 slender, torulose, 1J inches long, scarcely stipitate, slender- 

 beaked. 



At Doyle's, n. 635. Related to T. integrifolium, but of dif- 

 ferent habit, with different inflore.scen.ee, and peculiarly 

 handsome flowers. 



VIOLACE^:. 



Only the genus Viola is represented; but that in an inter- 

 esting array of species by far the greater number of which 

 are absolutely new. 



V. CANADENSIS, Linn., n. 383. 



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