No. 211. 
VIOLA LANCEOLATA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This is a native of North America. It 
grows, according to Pursh, in overflowed 
meadows from Canada to Pensylvania: 
several varieties of it have been found. 
The flowering season is Sege, the months 
of June and July. 
With us it requires to be kept in peat 
earth and well watered. It propagates itself 
by offsets from the roots, and is not subject 
to injury from cold, but ought to be shifted 
often, as the roots are very apt to decay if 
left too long undisturbed. 
The genus Viola is numerous and its cha- 
racter very distinct: some species of it have 
been found in most of the temperate parts 
of the world. We lately obtained a dried 
specimen of a minute kind from Van Die- 
man’s Island. 
VOL. IH, E 
