200 V10LACE.E. Viola. 



++ +^ ()^ ary aud globular capsule pubescent. 

 V prsemorsa, DoLGL. rubtnilciit or cinereous-pubesceut, sometimes glabrate : taudex 

 either short ami rather stout, or louger aud slender : leaves ovate or subcordate to obloug- 

 lanceolate, or some even linear-lauceolate, from undulate or obtusely serrate to irregularly 

 dentate (blade lialf inch to inch or more long) : njjper stipules lanceolate, mostly laciniate : 

 peduncles usually much surpassing the leaves : sepals lanceolate or linear, acute : petals 

 from a thinl to half inch long, bright yellow, or brownish-tinged outside, sometimes two 

 upi.cr purple-brown. — Dougl. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1254; Hook. ¥1 Bor.-Am. i. 80, as to 

 pi. Dougl. r. imimorsa (small form), & V. NuttalUi, Bcnth. PI. llartw. 298. V. NutUilli,, 

 var iJnuHorsa, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 35. V. aurea, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ii. 185, 

 t. 54; Brew. & Wats. 1. c. 56. V. Brooksii, Kellogg.i Calif. Horticulturist, ix. 281.— 

 Gravelly or sandy soil, S. W. Idaho and Washington to W. Nevada -^ and S. (aud Lower) 

 California, extending to the higher mountains; in very variable forms. 



Var. venosa, Grav, n. var. ( V. Nuttalln, yar. venosa, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 35, V. ouren, 

 var. venosa, Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 5G, aud V. jmrpurea, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 

 i. 56) is a depressed or reduced form of the higher aud drier Cascade Mountains and Sierras, 

 commonly with laciuiate-deutate aud more veiny (often purple-veined) leaves. 

 ■1- -(- Leaves dissected : mainly subcaulescent ; the cluster of slender stems mainly sub- 

 terranean from a short aud usually deep fascicled-rooted rootstock or caudex : peduncles 

 therefore scapiform, least so in the last species. 



++ Petals beardless, yellow or upper merely brownish. 

 V. chrysantha, Hook. Leaves mostly bipinuately dissected into linear lobes, short-pubes- 

 'cent or glal)rate : petals half inch long or smaller, deep orange-yellow, commonly with some 

 brt)wn-i)urple lines, upper ones often partly and sometimes largely brown-purple. — Ic. 

 t. 49 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 143, 671 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 58 ; not Schrad., which is 

 of no account. V\ Dourjlasii, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, 771.3— Open and dry groimd, Cali- 

 fornia, from Mendocino Co. to San Diego, first coll. by Doitf/las. 

 V. Sheltonii, Tore. Glabrous, slender : leaves of orbicular outline, palmately 3-divided, 

 the obovate-cuneate divisions palmately or pedately 3-parted or again cleft into liucar-spatu- 

 late or oblong-linear obtuse lobes : petals beardless, pale yellow, a third to nearly half inch 

 long. —Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 67, t. 2; Brew. & Wats. 1. c. — Mountains of California from 

 Colusa aud Plumas Co.* (first coll. by Mr. Shelton) to S. Oregon, Howell, partly cleis- 

 togamous ; hillsides in White Salmon Valley, Washington, Suksdorf. The stigma is sub- 

 tended liy two small bearded tufts, as in the others. 



++ •!-(• Lateral petals with a tuft of beard ; upper ones deep blue or violet purjjle. 

 V. Beckwithii, Tohu. & Gr.w. Hirsutulous-pubescent, sometimes nearly glabrous: 

 "leaves of rounded outline, palmatelv about thrice 3-parted into linear or siiatulate-linear 

 obtuse (or karelv mucronulate) lobes; primary divisions more or less petiolulate: petals 

 nearlv half inch' long; lateral and lower ones light blue or bluish or white and purple- 

 veined, with merelv vellowish base. — Pacif. R. Rep. ii. 119. t. 1; Wats. Bot. Kmg Exp. 

 35- Brew. & Wats." Bot. Calif, i. 58 (in latter lower petals inadvertently described as yellow). 

 V.mordana, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 56. - From N. W. Nevada (Diamond Moun- 

 tain, Beck-with) and adjacent Sierra Nevada, California to Oregon. 

 V. Hallii, Gray. Glabrous: leaves of ovate or oblong and irregular outline, subpinnately 

 or pedately about twice parted into lanceolate or linear obscurely veined or nerved or vein- 

 less callous-apiculate lobes : stipules variable, upper often enlarged and foliaceous, adnate, 

 laciniate or entire : petals stronglv two-colored, lateral aud lower yellow or cream-color. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 377; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 57. — Dry ground, from Salem, 

 Oregon (where discovered by E. Hall and later coll. by Jhnrll, &c.), to Humboldt Co., 

 California, Rattan. 



1 Add syn. V. pinetorum, Greene, Pittouia, ii. 14. V. purpurea, v:ir. p'lnetorum, Greene, Fl. 

 Franci-s. 243. 



2 Yellowstone Nat. Park, Dewnrt. 

 8 Add Greene, Pittonia, ii. 11. 



4 Snow Mountain, Lake Co., Calif., Mrs. Krandegee, Zoe, iv. 171. 



