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the past summer was found to possess erect cleistogenes. This 
furnishes us with a connecting link between the two groups of 
SacitTaTt# and HeErTEropHyLLt&. Dr. Robinson has recently 
kindly communicated to me specimens of a violet discovered near 
Boston by Mr. H. A. Purdie which I consider undoubtedly 
referable to this species, although there is astonishing diversity 
in the lobation of the leaves. 
VIOLA SEPTEMLOBA Le Conte, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. 2:141. 1828. 
I have applied this name, although with some hesitation, to 
a rather local violet which at once attracts attention on account 
of its ample, flabelliform, and deeply divided leaves, which attain 
in late summer an enormous development. Le Conte remarks 
onthe great length of the peduncles and the large size of the 
flower, features which I have noticed in the plants obtained about 
Washington. He assigns it to ‘Carolina and Georgia, in pine 
barrens only,” and this habitat again agrees with my observations. 
Finally there is a plant in the herbarium of the Philadelphia 
Academy of Sciences, labeled, I believe, in Darlington’s hand- 
writing ‘ V. septemloba.”’ 
VIOLA EScULENTA EIL., l. c., as synonym. 
V. heterophylla Muhl. Cat. 25. 1813; not Poiret nor Bertol. 
V. palmata var. 8 heterophylla Ell., |. c. 
I have not seen Elliott’s type of this species, and am depen- 
dent upon a colored drawing of Le Conte’s, and a specimen from 
Louisiana which Professor Greene has seen in the herbarium of 
r. Mohr. The leaves are wonderfully diversified in outline and 
lobation after the manner of the following species, but it is stated 
by Elliott that the whole plant is extremely succulent, and is 
used by the negroes as a pot-herb. In the National Herbarium 
is a specimen from Elmira, New York, which would seem to 
match these characters, but ] should hesitate to call it V. esculenta 
without having seen individuals from intermediate stations. 
The habitat of this violet is given as swamps, and in this prefer- 
€nce it is distinct from all other members of the HETEROPHYLL& 
