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tion, whenever available, will be reproduced, together with such 

 facts as have come under my observation. 



Flowers two-colored, leaves dissected V. Beckwithii 



Flowers violet-blue, leaves broad, not dissected V. Austinae 



Flowers white, small V. blanda 

 Flowers yellow 

 Leaf blades broad 



Petioles and blades conspicuously woolly V. aure.i 



Petioles and blades puberulent, blades purple veined V. venosa 



Leaf blades lanceolate, tapering to a winged petiole V. Nuttallii 



Viola Beckwithii T. & G. Pac. R. R. Rep. 2; ng.p/. 2. 1855. 



Viola montana Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. 1: 56. 1855. 

 "Viola Beckwithii, (n. sp.): subcaulesceut; ascending stems 

 abbreviated; cauline leaves biternately or pedately parted, de- 

 current on the margined petiole, the lobes or segments oblong- 

 linear, hirsute-puberulent; stipules minute, scarious, entire; se- 

 pals linear, obtuse, ciliolate; lower petal barely saccate at the 

 base, purple, with yellow claws, the upper shorter and deep vio- 

 let. On the slope of a mountain between Great Salt Lake and 

 the Sierra Nevada; June 1. A well-marked species; with the 

 foliage somewhat like that of V. delphinifolia, Nait.\ but the 

 primary divisions compoundly divided in a ternate or pinnati- 

 sect manner; and there is a distinct stem, although it is only an 

 inch long in the specimen. Lobes of the leaves half an inch or 

 less in length. Stipules very small and inconspicuous, except 

 those of the lowest and subradical leaves, which are larger. 

 Peduncles 2 inches, naked. Petals half an inch long. Style 

 short, clavate, minutely bearded at the gibbous summit; the 

 stigma lateral." 



In the Botany of the King Report, Watson states that the 

 type was "discovered by Beckwith in Agate Pass of the Quartz 

 Mountains, Nevada." I have not been able to definitely locate 

 this place, but it seems to be somewhere in the region of Reese 

 river, and no doubt is in Eureka county. According to the nar- 

 rative of the expedition it is located about fifty-five miles west- 

 ward from the East Humboldt or Ruby mountains. 



It is one of our early spring flowers, commonly beginning 

 to bloom in March, and is plentiful on the* hillsides among sage 



