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V. hastata Michx., an Alleghany Mountain species, extending 
to Ohio and to the northwestern borders of Florida; generally 
well marked by its approximate and deltoid-hastate or subcordate 
leaves. 
Var. tripartita, the V. tripartita Ell., a remarkable form 
with trifid or 3- -parted or even trifoliolate leaves, srideninn as 
LeConte maintained, only an usual state of V. hasta 
V. glabella Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. A Pa cific species, 
ranging from the middle parts of California to Alaska and to 
Japan ; its tprehsaeuhenal forms coming too near the Asiatic V. 
uniflora L., while its most eastern in the northern Rocky Moun- 
tains are not readily distinguished from V. pubescens. With 
Maximowicz, I conclude that we should keep up these species. 
V. pubescens Ait. This common and rather variable Atlantie 
American ne contrary to Maximowicz, I must keep entire. 
The capsule in all its forms varies from oblong to globular (even 
on the same stems), and from glabrous to densely tomentose pan 
the very {aieverea plants are connected by transitions wi ith 
. scabriuseula Torr. & Gray, which should have been 
named ikcvansila, for it really is not scabrous. 
* * Petals white, with violet or purple tinge, and some yellow or yellow- 
ish at base within: stems more leafy or more prolonged by successive leaf- 
and flower-bearing growths up to midsummer: stipules small, narrow, entire 
and nearly scarious: capsule oval, glabrons. 
V. Canadensis L. This ranges from een oe to Sas- 
katchawan and the Rocky Mountains, to those of Utah and Ari- 
zona. In New Mexico and Colorado it passes into 
Var. scopulorum, a diminutive and depressed form, of which 
the most characteristic form was collected in Clear Creek cation, 
by Mr. Greene. 
V. ocellata Torr. & Gray. Known only in California ; seems 
well to hold its characters as a species. 
___V. euneata Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xiv. 290, and Bot. 
Calif. ii, 433. Mountain woods in the northern part of ene Bs 
nia and adjacent Oregon. Distinguished from the p y 
its smoothness and its rhombic-ovate or cuneate leaves, sity the 
radical ones cordate. 
Group VI. Caulescent from more or less creeping rootstocks, or at first 
flowering nearly acaulescent, erect or spreading: leaves gay undivided : 
stipules more or less herbaceous : corolla from blue to white, with projecting ob- 
long to cylindrical spur: style moderately thickened upward, bear 
