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A NEW VIOLET FROM NEW JERSEY* 

 By Charles Louis Poli.ard 



Viola Angellae sp. nov. 



Plant acaulescent, about I dm. high at flowering time, from a 

 stout ascending or erect branching rootstock : young leaves 

 sparsely pubescent, especially along the veins and on the peti- 

 oles, cordate-ovate in outline, with a broad sinus, irregularly 5- 

 7-lobed or some of them merely deeply sinuate ; lobes all ob- 

 tuse, more or less crenate : scapes somewhat exceeding the 

 foliage : flowers violet-purple, darker at base : sepals oblong, 

 very obtuse, 5 mm. long : petals oblong, rounded and entire at 

 apex, 1—2 cm. long, nearly equal : aestival leaves with petioles 

 2-2.5 dm. l° n g> greatly surpassing the persistent vernal foliage; 

 the latter leaves more constantly 3-lobed, the lobes irregularly 

 crenate-dentate : cleistogamous flowers few, borne on short, de- 

 flexed scapes : capsule oblong. 



Types in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 364,862 (for 

 flowers) collected by Miss Lillie Angell at Orange, New Jersey, 

 in May, 1 900; also no. 352,093 (aestival leaves), same locality 

 and collector, June, 1899. 



Living plants of this species were sent to me by Miss Angell 

 in 1899, then past the flowering season. The unusual feature 

 of vernal and aestival foliage being present on the same plant at- 

 tracted my notice, and I asked for additional material, which was 

 afterward placed in my garden. In the spring of 1900 Miss An- 

 gell furnished flowering specimens, which I had an opportunity 

 of comparing with those already in flower in the garden, and 

 which proved to have held their characters perfectly. During 

 the season of 1901 the plants have continued to thrive, and show 

 no tendency to approach V. palmata, the most nearly related 

 species. They have been grown in close proximity to Viola pal- 

 mata, V. Brittoniana, V. falcata and V. viamm. At the com- 

 mencement of flowering the species is less distinctive in appear- 

 ance, although the very earliest leaves show some degree of 

 lobation, which is hardly the case with those of V.palmata. The 



* Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



