342 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ NOVEMBER | 
VIOLA PRIMULFOLIA australis, n. var. 
Leaves much larger and thicker, decurrent on the reddish-_ 
tinged petiole; flowers larger than in the type (1-1.5™ broac 
odorless. Throughout the southern states. Type in the National 
Herbarium, A. Fredholm, no. 431, Duval county, Florida. : 
VIOLA AMcENA Le Conte, |. c. p. 144. 
V. blanda var. palustriformis A. Gray, Bot. Gaz. 11.255. 1886. 
A much larger and more robust plant than d/anda, usually 
_ more pubescent, with reddish petioles and odorless flowers. It 
is frequently stoloniferous, which is rarely the case in dlanda, and 
prefers moist cliffs and shaded regions rather than the wet, 
grassy meadows in which d/anda abounds. 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
