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daga counties. Preferring mossy rocks in damp, shady ravines. 



Viola blanda Willd. Hort. Berol. pi. 24. 1806. 



Viola LeConteana Don, Gen. Syst. 1: 324. 183 1. Britton, 



Man. 1049. 1 90 1. 



V. amocna LeConte, Ann. N. Y. Lye. 2: 144. 1825. Not 

 V. amocna T. F. Forst.; Symons, Syn. 198. 1798. 



V. blanda var. palustriformis A. Gray, Bot. Gaz. 11: 255. 

 1886. 



V. blanda amoena (LeConte) B.S.P. Prel. Cat. Anth. and Pterid. 

 6. 1888. 



Viola alsophila Greene, Pittonia, 4: 7. 1899. 



Rarely found in Herkimer county. Long Branch, Onondaga 

 county. 

 Viola renifolia A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 288. 1870. 



V. blanda renifolia A. Gray, Bot. Gaz. 11: 255. 1886. 



Viola lanceolata L. Sp. PI. 934. 1753. 



Only a few specimens of V. lanceolata have been collected 

 along the edge of a swamp near Syracuse, and so far as I know 

 this is the only record of its being found in this region. 



Syracuse, N. Y., March 1, 1902. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW FOSSIL SPECIES OF 



CHARA 



By F. H. Knowlton 



Some weeks ago, by the kindness of Professor T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, of East Las Vegas, New Mexico, I was informed that 

 certain fluviatile deposits of Pleistocene age exposed in that 

 vicinity contained great numbers of Chara "fruits." A few 

 days since I received from Miss Ada Springer, a student of Pro- 

 fessor Cockerell's, a box containing a considerable quantity of 

 this material. Accompanying it was a short description of 

 the "fruits" and a drawing which is the basis of the one here 

 presented. 



As this species proves to be wholly unlike any fossil species 

 previously described from this country I venture to describe it as 

 new under the name : 



