Viola. VIUJ.ACE.E. 20l 



V. trinervata, IIowkii,. (iliiluous: leaves once or twice peilatdy or iialiii:it<l_v .•}-•) parted 

 or (lividetl ; tlie lateral liivisioiis upturned ; all lanceolale or ovate-lanceolate, taperiu;j to a 

 mostly acute callous apex, thickisli and lirui, at len;itli coriaceous, and proiuinently .'l-riliKed, 

 lateral ribs intrainarfjinal : sti])ules small and entire, free or nearly so: lower jtetals 

 "yellow": stigma with a beak like lip. — Howell in distr., it, (under var. / of lieikuiiliii) 

 15ot. Gaz. viii. 207, viray, //«f/. xi. 'I'M. V. t/in/saNl/iii, \ht. i/l(ilMrriina,'Vurr. Hot. Wilkes 

 Exped. 238. — Dry prairies or rocky ground, Washington ; between the Spipen and the 

 Columbia, Pickirititj & JJrackenrulijc, and Klikitat Co., Ilnu-cll, iiuksJor/.^ 

 ***** Caulescent ; the few-several-leaved stems erect from short or creeping root- 

 stocks, no stolon.s, no radical flowers: spur of corolla short and saccate: lateral petals 

 commonly with a little papillose beard: stigiini bcakless, more or less bearded at 

 the sides. 



•i— Petals yellow : stems mostly naked at b;x.se, few-leaved and few-llowered above, at least 



the early and main stems. 

 ++ Leaves all or some cleft or incised, or hastate, not round-cordate : ])lants glabrous or 



pubescent, the simple long naked stems rarely over a span or two high. 



V. lobata, Bentii. Leaves very various, dilated-reuiform or flabelliform iu outline, pedately 

 or (ligilately 3-9-lobed, parted, or oidy laciuiate, the lobes from linear to ovate: upper 

 stipules usually large and foliaceous: petals half inch or less in length, the upper often 

 browni.sh or purple-tinged. — PI. Hartw. 298; Torr. Pacif. U. Kep. iv. 68; IJrew. & Wats. 

 Bot. Calif, i. 57. T. Sef/uoiensis, Kellogg, Proe. Calif. Acad. Sci. ii. 185, f. 55. — Woods, 

 sparsely from S. California to within the borders of Oregon ; first coll. by Ilartweij, later by 

 Bif/eloir, &c. 



Var. integrifolia, Watsov, 1. c. Ambiguous between this and I', (jlahelln : leaves 

 deltoid- or rhombicovate, often caudate-acuminate, only the radical cordate. — Sierra Co., 

 California,- and adjacent Nevada, Lemmon; Waldo, Oregon, IIuiccU. 



V. hastata, Miciix. Commonly glabrous, with slender stem from a short and horizontal 

 fleshy rootstock : leaves 2 to 4, approximate at summit, lanceolate-hastate to deltoid and 

 subcordate, acuminate or acute, denticulate-serrate; radical usually cordate-ovate: stipules 

 rather small, entire or with few slender teeth : jjetals <piarter inch or more long. — Kl. ii. 

 149; Pursh, Fl. i. 174; Le Conte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 150; Torr. & Gray. PI. i. 141.' 

 I', f/ibbosa, Kaf. in DC. Prodr. i. 305. V. hirta, Lewis, iu DC. 1. c. 300, pubescent form.— 

 Picli woods, of the Alleglianies and adjacent lower country, W. Florida to Penu. and 

 N. Oliio; first coll. by Mir/,atu: 



Var. tripartita, (in.w. Sometimes villous-pubescent : lower leaves 3-parted or 

 3-foliolate; divisions or leaflets lanceolate or broader, sessile or slender-petiolulate. — Bot. 

 Gaz. xi. 291. V. tripartita, Ell. Sk. i. 302 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 142. —Georgia to N. Carolina, 

 an aberrant form. 



++ ++ Leaves merely serrate, nearly all cnlatc. Species, along with the X. Asian P. i/m- 

 JJora, L., successively nearly or ijuite confluent. 



V. glabella, Nutt. Glabrous or puberulent, bright green : stems a span to at length often 

 a foot high from a creeping fleshy-dentate rootstock, mo.sily weak: leaves crenulate-serrate. 

 round-cordate and with a small acumination, or radical reniform ; uppermost shorlpetioled : 

 stipules small, ovate to lanceolate, thin-membranaceous or scarious : cap.<ule (d.l>«ng, gla- 

 brous. — Xutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 142 ; Brew. & Wats. 1. c. 57. Maxim. Diag. I'l Nov. 

 Asiat. i. 752. P. Caii(ul<'nsi.'i, var. Sitcftfiisi.'s, Bong. ace. ti> Ledeb. Fl. Hoss. i. 255. P. Cana- 

 densis, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 80, as to pi. N. W. Co.ast, "P. SrouUrii, Dough"; Hong. Vog. 

 Sitch. 125. V. striata, Hook. Lend. Jour. Bot. vi. 72. not Ait. V. hi flora, var. .'<ilrl,fiisis, 

 Hegel, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mo.sc. xxxv. 253; Pothrock, Fl. Ahiska. 444. — Woods, Abska ftn<I 



Islands to Monterey and MarijMisa Co.. California,'' east to th rihern Uoiky Mountains. 



where it seems to pa.«!s into V. puhpsnns. (Japan ) 



1 Also N. Yakima, Nevius, 



2 And inner Coa-st Range, acr, to Greene, Fl. Fninci.-*. 241. 

 8 Garden and Forest, iv. 7<>, f. 1<>. 



4 Valk-v of Kaweah, ace. to Coville, Confril.. V. S. Xat. Herb. iv. 09. 



