VIOLACE^. 



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entire. Flowers large, blue without, nearly white within ; iipper petals marked 

 with i)lue lines, side ones bearded ; spur short ; stigma short, and without beak ; 

 sepals lanceolate. May to August. 



Ueof/rapltij. — British America to Carolina, west to Colorado, Montana, 

 and Wyoming. Kich woods, not rare. 



\'ar. Sylvestris. 

 root, sending off 



3. V. canina, L. (V. Muhlenbergii, Torr.) (Dog \'iolet.) 

 Hegel. Stem leafy, 2 to 8 inches high, many from the same 

 creeping branches. Leaves at the root kidney-shaped or 

 orbicular heart-shaped, upper ones acuminate ; all crenate, 

 thin, veins prt)minent, stipules large, lanceolate, fringe- 

 toothed. Flowers pale-purplish, showy ; petals obovate, ob- 

 tuse, lateral ones bearded ; spur tapering, half as long as 

 petals ; stigma rostrate. May to June. 



Geography. — Eastern North America, from Labrador to 

 Florida, and west to Colorado. In damp meadows, edges 

 of swamps, and fringes of damp woods. 



4. V. hastata, Mx. (Halberd-leaved Violet.) Stem 

 slender, erect, simple, nearly smooth, leafy above, 6 to 10 

 inches high. Leaves on long petioles, cordate, lanceolate, 

 or hastate, acuminate, dentate; lobes obtuse, stipules mi- 

 nute, ovate. Flowers yellow, peduncles shorter than the Viola blanda 

 leaves ; lower petal broader, 3-sub-lobed, lateral ones slightly (Delicate Violet), 

 bearded. May. 



Geography. — Tenn. to Florida, mountains of Peuu. and northern Ohio. In 

 pine woods, not common. 



5. V. lanceolata, L. (Lance-leaved Violet.) Quite smooth, lanceolate, taper- 

 ing into a long petiole, obscurely toothed, or entire. Leaves generallv a little 

 longer than the scapes, 4-6 inches high. Flowers white, inodorous, striped 

 with purple lines; spur short. Sepals lanceolate; petals beardless. April to 

 June. 



(tfography. — From Canada, throughout eastern U. S., in damj) places. 



^^ 6. V. odorata, L. (Sweet Violet. English Violet.) Leaves heart-shaped, ere 

 nate, sj^aringly hairy, stipules lance-shaped and toothed. Flower-stalks taller 



than the leaves. Flowers purjde and 

 fragrant. Se])als obtuse ; lateral petals 

 with a hairy line. 



'i'here are several varieties, l)ased up- 

 ^,__^ , -r-^ ^1 - ^" ^^^^ color and size of the Howers : — 



^\ \;^?n^-'''^^^^-^^'~"^ "• '''irpl*' '"^weet Violet. 



^fcl^^^T'-^ ^/fc4j^\ "• ^^''''^^ Sweet Violet. 



c. IJlue Sweet N'iolet. 

 By cultivation all tlie.<;e frequently 

 bp,ri>ni«> double ; they are great favorites 

 with florists 



(ito<ini}iliii. - Indigenous throughout 

 Europe; ft)und also in some i)arts of 

 China. .lapan. and India; it has es- 

 caped from cnltivation, and is frequent 

 in the fields near the great cities of the United States. 



ViOLA ODORATA (Sweet Violet) 



