Southwestern Lont^ Island, in damp meadows. Collected at 

 Roscdale, and at \Vo(Hlmere. IVpc from VVoodmere ; in Her- 

 barium New York lM)tanical (iarden. 



Related to Vio/a cucullata and growing with it, but well set 

 apart from any of the cucullata group by its ovate or deltoid 

 strictly non -cordate leaves. By comparison with V. cucullata in 

 the field the flowers are seen to be markedly different in color as 

 well as in other characters. 



^ Viola notabilis sp. nov. 



h\)rniing large tufts from stout rootstocks : leaves deep green, 

 ap[)earing glabrous but with some minute pubescence, mostly mar- 

 ginal and along the veins ; petioles rather stout, becoming 15-35 

 cm. long ; blades ovate to broadly ovate, openly cordate to nearly 

 truncate at base, obtuse or rounded at the apex, bearing below the 

 middle several oblong, obtuse or acutish lobes often extending 

 less than halfway to the midrib but sometimes more deeply cut; 

 the basal lobes often dilated and dentate or lobed along the upper 

 margin : peduncles glabrous, usually much surpassing the leaves, 

 becoming 20-43 cm. high : flowers deep purple-blue, very large, 

 sometimes spreading 3-4 cm. with the petals 10— i 5 mm. broad, all 

 the petals bearded with glandular hairs or the upper pair glab- 

 rous ; sepals lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, mostly apiculate- 

 obtuse, distinctly ciliate ; cleistogamous flowers narrowly lan- 

 ceolate-acuminate, on erect peduncles sometimes 30 cm. long, 

 their sepals long-auriculate : capsules oblong, 10—12 mm. long, 

 rather obtuse, little surpassing the sepals. 



Southern Long Island. Type from Woodmere ; in Herbarium 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



A conspicuous and handsome violet of low grounds often in 

 wet meadows or near the borders of damp thickets. It is often 

 found growing \\ith or near Viola Brittoniana, to which it is 

 nearly related but is much larger in every way, of more tufted 

 habit, the leaves much less divided, with broader, shorter, more 

 obtuse lobes, the flowers deeper in color with broader petals, the 

 sepals usually distinctly ciliolate. Mola Mulfordac is at once 

 distinguished from ]^. notabilis by its pubescence and more oblong 

 leaves as well as by its smaller general size and smaller flowers 

 on relatixely shorter {peduncles. 



