626 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry rocky or sandy places. Lee 

 County, Auburn (Baker $ Earle, No. 55). Cullman County, 800 feet. Dale County, 

 Ozark. Mobile County, Springhill, on sandy pine ridges. Flowers July, August. 



Type locality : " E Canada." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Molir. 



VIOLACEAE. Violet Family. 

 VIOLA L. Sp. PL 2 : 933. 1753. l 



About 150 species, in temperate regions, chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere. 

 North America 36, Atlantic 25. 



Viola pedata L. Sp. PI. 2 : 933. 1753. . BIBD'S-FOOT VIOLET. 



Viola pedata var. Ucolor Pursh ; Raf. in DC. Prodr. 1 : 291. 1824. 



Viola pedata inornata Greene, Pittonia, 3 : 35. 1898. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 78. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 195. 



Carolinian and Louisianian area. Southern New England, New Jersey, and south- 

 ern Missouri, south to Tennessee and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley, Mountain region. Metamorphic hills. Dry grassy 

 banks, open copses. Lawrence County, Moulton. Madison County, Montesano 

 (Boynton, Herb. Biltmore.) Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Lee County, Auburn 

 (F. S. Earle). Flowers April; not infrequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Viola palmata L. Sp. PL 2 : 933. 1753. BLUE WOOD-VIOLET. 



Viola heterophylla Muhl. Cat. 25. 1813. 



Viola palmata var. vulgaris Ell. Sk. 1 : 300. 1817. 



Viola cucullata var. palmata Gray, Man. ed. 5, 78. 1867. 



Ell. Sk. I.e. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 79. Chap. Fl. 33. Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 196. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, Ontario; New England, west to 

 Minnesota, Nebraska, and Arkansas, south to Florida and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. In light dry soil. Most abundant in the pine forests 

 of the Maritime Pine belt. Flowers sky-blue, March. Common. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Viola palmata dilatata Ell. Sk. 1 : 300. 1817. 



Ell. 1. c. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Georgia, Louisiana. 



Alabama : Mountain region to Lower Pine belt. In dry sandy soil. Lee County 

 (Baker fy Earle). Mobile County, pine uplands. 

 Type locality : " Upper districts of Georgia and Carolina." 



Viola brittoniana Pollard, Bot. Gaz. 26 : 332. 



Viola atlantica Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 92. 1897. Not V. atlantica Pomel,1874. 



Britton & Br. 111. Fl. 2 : 446. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of southern New England to New Jersey 

 southward along the coast. Eastern Louisiana (Feliciana, Carpenter). 



Alabama: Lower Pine belt. Mobile County, in dry pine woods. Flowers bright 

 blue, March 15. Frequent. 



Viola vicinalis Greene, Pittonia, 4 : 9. 1899. LARGE-FLOWERED VIOLET. 



Viola insignia Pollard, Bot. Gaz. 26 : 334. 1898. Not Richter. 1888. 



Glabrous from a stout erect rhizome; leaves rather firm, thickish, the margin 

 slightly revolute, triangular in outline, obtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, the 

 early incised and the later variously lobed, the 3 -to 5 lobes broad to linear, deeply 

 pinnatifid, the middle lobe always the largest, the lowest pair more or less runcinato, 

 the divisions crenately denticulate; peduncles shorter or longer than the leaves; 

 flowers large, the lateral petals bearded with glistening hairs, spur short, sepals 

 narrowly lanceolate, acute. 



Louisianian area. Florida. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain. In dry sandy pine woods. Mobile County. Infrequent. 



Type locality of V. insignia Pollard: " Dry pine barrens, northern Florida. * 

 Curtiss no. 4518a, Jacksonville ; A. Fredholm no. 425, Duval County.' 



1 Charles L. Pollard, The purple-flowered, stemless violets of the Atlantic coast, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 10, pp. 85 to 92. 1896 Same author, Further 

 observations on the eastern acaulescent violets, Bot. Gaz. vol. 26, pp. 325 to 342, 189& 



