332 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ NOVEMBER 
VIOLA PALMATA sorRoRIA (Willd). 
V. sororia Willd. Enum. 263. 1809. : 
V. asarifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. Suppl. 732. 1814. 
V. villosa var. B cordifolia Nutt. Gen. 148. 1818. 
Dr. Britton has recognized this species in the ///ustrated Flora 
and is still inclined to maintain it, but I fail to perceive in sovoria, 
if the name be correctly applied, which is somewhat doubtful, 
anything more than an entire-leaved state of V. palmata. This 
variety seems remarkably distinct in its early vernal stage, but 
I have seen individuals put forth occasional lobed leaves, and it 
is not uncommon for specimens of fal/matfa in cultivation to 
develop large, asariform, unlobed leaves late in the season, and 
in this condition they are absolutely undistinguishable from | 
typical sororia. Among the early writers Pursh and Schweinitz ) 
were the only two that retained sovorta in specific rank. Nuttall 
named it as a variety of villosa, which it somewhat suggests in 
habit. 
Viola Brittoniana, nom. nov. 
V. Atlantica Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 24:92. 1897; not V. Atlantica 
Pomel, Nouv. Mat. Fl, Atlant. 215. 1874. 
The specific designation originally assigned to this plant 
being clearly ahomonym under all accepted rules, it is with great 
pleasure that I have associated Dr. Britton’s name with it, the 
type coming froma region in which he has long lived and worked. 
It is essentially a maritime species, ranging practically the entire 
length of the Atlantic seaboard. Although I have not seem 
specimens from the Atlantic coast below Virginia Beach, it 
certainly occurs on the Gulf coast near Mobile, and probably at 
intermediate stations. It is a succulent, glabrous plant, exhibit- 
ing a fondness for saline soils. I have often had misgiving aS 
to whether it might not, after all, be the true septemloba of Le 
Conte; but that is both described and figured as having flowers 
nearly two inches in diameter, and the cut of the leaves is also 
different. The plant is thriving in cultivation at the New York 
Botanical Garden, and when examined during the latter part of 
