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togamous flowers erect on shorter peduncles, and the subsequent 

 capsules 10-14 mm. long, angled and acute. 



Moist shady stream banks and around springy places in the 

 deeper coves of Rabun Bald, Rabun Co., Georgia, alt. 2000— 

 3500 ft. H. D. House, 22g6, June 1-4, 1906, 



^ Viola oconensis sp. nov. 



Related to V. cnaillata of the north. Rootstock ascending, 

 branched, often elongated : early leaf-blades, round-ovate, shal- 

 lowly cordate, obtuse, crenate, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, glabrous: 

 summer foliage appearing with the flowers; petioles 8-15 cm. 

 long, slender, pale and glabrous or with a few scattered hairs ; 

 blades oblong-ovate in the earlier leaves to triangular-ovate in 

 the later ones, 4-5 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. broad, acute to sub- 

 acuminate, deeply cordate and cucullate at the base, crenate or 

 crenate-serrate, bright-green, rather thick and firm in texture, 

 the veins prominent beneath, hispidulous above with minute 

 whitish scattered hairs or glabrous with age : peduncles mostly 

 exceeding the leaves at all stages, glabrous or slightly pubescent, 

 10—30 cm. long, bracts minute, subulate, not opposite : sepals 

 linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, with whitish margins, 10— 14 mm. 

 long, the basal auricles prominent, blunt, the auricles and some- 

 times the margins of the sepals with a few short cilia : corolla 

 2-3 cm. broad, bright-blue but not purplish, the upper and lateral 

 petals broad and rounded, the lower petal lance-oblong, obtuse 

 and conspicuously veined with purple, the lateral pair bearded 

 with small tufts of white papillae : cleistogamous flowers acute, 

 erect on peduncles 8-20 cm. long, their capsules about as long 

 as the sepals, acute. [Figure 4.] 



In swampy thickets of elder and smilax along a small " branch " 

 near Clemson College, Oconee Co., South Carolina, H. D. 

 House, 18 J g, April 16, 1906, alt. about 800 ft. (type in the 

 Clemson College herbarium ; duplicate types in the herbaria of 

 the New York Botanical Garden and the National Museum). 

 Near Pendleton (but in the S. E. corner of Oconee Co.) H. D. 

 House, 180 1, April 10, 1906. 



At the last-named locality V. sagittata Ait. was abundant on 

 an open wooded slope above, and around the margin of the 

 swampy thicket in which grew V. oconensis, occurred several 

 plants of intermediate appearance. 



