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This species has not been found in any collection of herbarium 

 specimens and has not been reported from any other locality. The 

 possibility is not absolutely excluded that the species may not 

 be an old one, or may indeed be a hybrid between Capsclla and 

 another genus, yet so skilful an observer as Solms is disposed 

 to believe it a new species originating by recent mutation from 

 C. Bursa-pastoris. It has been found constant in its characters 

 and self-sustaining so far. Numerous other instances of acci- 

 dental observation might be cited but it will be profitable to pass 

 at once to the cultural experiments of de Vries. 



( To be continued. ) 



THE ACAULESCENT VIOLETS OF CENTRAL 

 NEW YORK 



By Homer D. House 



Viola palmata L. Sp. PI. 933. 1753. 



V. palmata var. a. vulgaris Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1 : 300. 

 1817. 



V. palmata var. b. fragrans Ell. /. c. 



V. cucidlata var. palmata A. Gray, Man. 28. 1867 [ed. 5]. 



Not common in central New York. The entire-leaved forms 

 are some seasons more abundant than the forms with palmately 

 divided leaves. The two forms are always found associated in 

 this region. The entire-leaved variety I shall designate as : 



Viola palmata asarifolia (Pursh). 



V. asarifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 732. 1814. 



V. palmata sororia Pollard, Bot. Gaz. 26: 332. 1898. Not 

 V. sororia Willd. Hort. Berol. 1. pi. J2. 1806. Perhaps V. 

 sororia Willd. Enum. 263. 1809, and of Le Conte, Schweinitz, 

 Nuttall, etc. 



Mr. C. L. Pollard refers the entire-leaved forms of Viola pal- 

 mata to Willdenow's V. sororia. I am not familiar with the ref- 

 erence Mr. Pollard gives to Willdenow's sororia, viz., Enum. 

 263. 1809. I am, however, familiar with his use of the name in 



