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Var. oxyceras ot Se in the Botany of California, is re- 
markable for its acute as well as long spur. It has been col- 
lected, so far as I wee only by Dr. Torrey near Donner’s Pass 
over the Sierra Nevada, and by Brewer and later by myself on 
ae high ground between Clark’s and the Yosemite. 
+ Stipules entire, or nearly so, linear: flowers on scapes from the 
at. and few on 1-3-leaved ascending stems, pretty large. 
V. mirabilis L. A species allied on one hand to V. Langs- 
dorfii, on the other to V. canina, ra nging from the mountains of 
Europe to N, E. Asia; and I somewhat doubtfully refer to it a 
plant collected in Oregon, near Portland, in coniferous woods, by 
r. Howell. The species was so nam y Linnzus because: 
the ony one he knew having what are now called cleistogamous 
flower 
* ® Spur to corolla very long; petals beardless: style slender-fusiform, 
symmetrical ; stigma erect and terminal, small: stipules laciniate-pectinate. 
V. rostrata Muhl. A strongly marked species, of the Alle- 
ghany region, ranging from Upper Canada and Michigan, throug 
the higher parts of the State of New York, to the mountains of 
Georgia. Mr. Dolph long ih sent me, from northern Pennsyl- 
vania, flowers having the spur 2 2-3-corniculate at tip. 
The section conten ei inelndes the pansy ~ 6 cor- 
nuta, now well known but not so common in our 
which has the eilaied and eae apex of the style Sollaael 
into a large and deep nectariferous and stigmatic cavity, is repre- 
sented in America only by 
V. tricolor L., var. arvensis DC. I had always taken this 
field form of the pansy for a mere escape from cultivation; but 
it Occurs in Fathex: numerous localities from Canada to Texas; 
and bee botanists familiar with it insist that it is indigenous. 
f we count this as indigenous, in deference to the weight ot 
authority, we have thirty-three wild species of Violet in North 
America, all but eight of them endemic. 
It is not out of place to is bane I aida in the opinion 
that Solea concolor of Gingius a genus quite distinct 
from Lonidium, and of course I ahould con up Hybanthus. 
