Vol. 4 No. 9 



TORREYA .,.«.uv 



September, 1904 ijoT>^^^^^^ 



(iARUBN 



THREE NEW VIOLETS FROM LONG ISLAND 



By Eugene P. Bicknell 



It would not be ventured at this time to propose any additions 

 to the number of our eastern violets, already troublesome with 

 new and poorly understood species, were not the plants here to 

 be noticed so signally marked that they can scarcely fail of easy 

 recognition, whether encountered in the field or on the herbarium 

 sheet. 



It is suggestive in many ways to find in our local flora three 

 such strongly individualized plants, and of one genus, not to 

 mention others awaiting further study, which have continued to 

 remain unknown, but there is many another hke case to remind 

 us how imperfectly, even yet, our common flora is understood. 



Viola pectinata sp. nov. 



Scarcely or not at all tufted, the plants growing singly or few 

 together from short, erect rootstocks, glabrous, except some 

 very minute hispidulous pubescence on the leaves mostly on the 

 margins and veins : leaves not numerous ; petioles slender, elon- 

 gated, 10-30 cm. long, often purplish ; leaf-blades thickish, 

 firm, deep rather bright green, even somewhat shining above, 

 deltoid-ovate to widely deltoid, often wider than long, acuminate 

 or sometimes obtuse, the truncate base often decurrent on the 

 petiole, the sides often concave in outline, closely cut-pectinate 

 below the middle with linear, acute, entire lobes or sometimes 

 sharply dentate; mature blades 6-10 cm. wide, 4-6 cm. long; 

 early leaves much smaller, occasionally narrower and sub-sagit- 

 tate, finely pectinate or dentate : peduncles shorter than the 

 leaves or sometimes as long : flowers medium-sized, deep purple- 

 blue or paler, the petals whitened and dark-lineate toward the 

 [Vol. 4, No. 8, of ToRREYA, comprising pages 1 13-12S, was issued .August 27. 1904.] 



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