■ya VIOLACEiE. Viola. 



7. Viola blanda, Willd. Siveei-scented White Violet. 



Leaves broadly cordate and cordate-reniform, smooth or slightly pubescent above, the sinus 

 rounded ; petiole smooth ; stigma capitate, depressed, margined with a recurved beak ; petals 

 beardless (white); rhizoma creeping. — Willd. hort. Berol. t. 24 ; Nutt. gen. I. p. 149; Ell. 

 sk. 1. p. 298; Schwein. I. c. ; Torr.fl. 1. p. 254; Bigel. Jl. Bost. p. 94; DC. prodr. 1. 

 p. 295 ; Le Conte, I c; Darlingt.fl. Cest.p. 145 ; Torr. 4- Gr.fi. N. Am. I. p. 138. V. clan- 

 destina, Pursh, fl. I. p. 173 (excl. syn. Michx.). V. obliqua, Pursh, I. c. V. amcena, Le 

 Conte, I. c. 



Leaves 1-2 inches in diameter, flat and thin ; petiole mostly twice the length of the leaves. 

 Scape slender, oblique or decumbent. Flowers small, fragrant. Sepals oblong, rather obtuse. 

 Petals obovate, obtuse ; the inferior one strongly veined with purple, and often emarginate ; 

 the two lateral ones less distinctly veined : spur short, but distinct. 



Wet meadows and margins of brooks ; common. April - May. — This is the only native 

 sweet-scented violet in the United States. 



8. Viola PRiMULiEFOLiA, Linn. Pi-imrose-leaved Violet. 



Leaves oblong, somewhat cordate, the lamina abruptly decurrent on the petiole, the under 

 surface and the scapes somewhat pubescent ; stigma capitate, margined, slightly beaked 

 (flowers white) ; lateral petals smooth or slightly bearded ; rhizoma creeping. — Nutt. gen. 1. 

 p. 149 ; Schivein. I. c. ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 295 (excl. syn. Pursh) ; Torr. fi.l. p. 253 ; DC. 

 prodr. 1. p. 293; Le Conte, I. c. ; Darlingt.fl. Cest. p. 145; Torr. <^ Gr. fl. N. Am. 1. 

 p. 139. 



Leaves 3-6 inches high ; the lamina an inch or more wide, and constituting less than half 

 the length of tlic leaf, sometimes truncate at the base ; the upper part of the petiole winged 

 by the decurrent lamina. Scapes about the length of the leaves. Flower small; the lower 

 petal conspicuously, and the two lateral ones slightly, marked with purple veins. 



Wet meadows and borders of rivulets ; rare. April - June. 



9. Viola lanceolata, Linn. Lance-leaved Violet. 



Plant smooth ; leaves lanceolate, narrowed at the base into a long petiole, rather obtuse, 

 obscurely crenate-scrrate ; stigma with a short recurved beak, somewhat quadrangular and 

 margined; petals (white) beardless ; rhizoma creeping. — Michx. fl. 2. jy. 150; Nutt. gen. 1. 

 p. 150 ; Schwein. I. c. ; Torr.fl. \.p. 253 ; DC. prodr. 1. p. 293 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 94 ; 

 Le Conte, I. c; Hook.fl. Bor.-Am. l.p.76; Torr. 4- Gr.fl. N. Am. 1. p. 139. 



Rhizoma often throwing off from its neck long creeping stolons, bearing an a])etalous flower 

 on a short peduncle at each joint. Leaves 4-6 inches long ^including the petiole), and 

 usually 4-5 lines wide, but sometimes considerably broader ; the lamina shorter than the 

 petiole. Scapes generally exceeding the leaves. Flower sitiall, inodorous ; the lowest petal 

 veined with purple : spur short and very obtuse. 



