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be permitted to make a copy of the plate. Doubtless I might 

 have forgotten the whole circumstance of my friend's very special 

 interest in the fine colored plate under which Le Conte, now ninety 

 years since, had written in pencil " V. ajffinis," but for his sur- 

 prising request. I now see that Mr. Pollard's purpose was fully 

 formed then, to suppress V. affinis in favor of V. obliqua; and I 

 repeat, that I never knew he had done so, until now Mr. Bicknell 

 has adverted to the fact in print. 



It was never my own thought to displace the name V. affinis 

 or any other, and write V. obliqua instead. I do not yet know 

 any violet that has the subfalcately cuspidate leaves and perfectly 

 serrate foliage — it is even sharply as well as exactly serrate— of 

 Hill's figure. An artist's error which amounts to an absolute 

 falsification in respect characters held essential should never, 

 in my judgment, be permitted to stand as a specific type; and 

 I strongly suspect that such an opinion as this, conceived by 

 others, had been the reason, and as I think a perfectly valid one, 

 for ignoring the V. obliqua as applied by Mr. Pollard in Britton's 

 Manual. 



Washington, D. C. 



A New Midland Violet and Some Notes on 'Xleisto- 

 gamous'' Flowers. 



{Two Plates.) 



BY J. A. NIEUWLAND. 



Viola candidula Nwd. Sp. Nov. 

 Planta verna circa 13 cm. alta perglabra, foliis florum alti- 

 tudinem haud aequantibus. Sepala inferiora circa 7 mm. longa 

 vix acuta, etiam obtusa, vel plus minusve rotundata, glaberrima, 

 obscure 3-nervia, margine anguste scarioso vel membranoso. 

 Corolla alba latior quam longior, petalis superioribus latissime 

 obtusis suborbicularibus, 12 mm. longis 10 mm. latis, vel latioribus, 

 lateralibus breviter sed crebre barbatis pilis longioribus (usque 

 1.7 mm.) fere cylindricis acutiusculis vel obtusiusculis, brevioribus 

 obtusis vel rotundatis, et omnibus eleganter clavellatis praecipue 

 brevioribus (pilis parte inferiore circa 24 ^i et ad apicem 57-99 jU 



