Viola. VIOLACE.E. 57 



In the Coast Ranges from Santa Barbara and Fort T.jon to Mendocino Co. : also in the Sierra 

 Nevada at an altitude of 5,000 to 6,000 feet ; Yosemite Valley (Bolander) ; above Carson City, 

 Anderson, Watson. The variety more alpine, at altitudes of S,000 to 10,500 feet, from lit, 

 Brewer to Donner Pass, and in the high mountains eastward to the Wahsatch. 



7. V. Nuttallii, Pursh. From densely pubescent with spreading hairs to nearly 

 glabrous : stems ascending from a straight rootstock. usually low, often very short : 

 leaves oblong-ovate to oblong, attenuate into the long petiole, obtuse, 1 to 3 inches 

 long, entire or obscurely sinuate ; stipules mostly narrow, entire : peduncles usually 

 shorter than the leaves : petals half an inch long, yellow, tinged more or less with 

 brown or purple : capsule ovate, smooth. — Hook. FJL i. 29, t. 76 ; Ton. <fe Gray, 

 Fl. i. 141. V. prcemorsa, Dougl. ; Lindl. Bot. Beg. xv, t. 125-4. 



From Washington Territory and Oregon to the Saskatchewan and Colorado ; probably to be 

 found in the northern or northeastern parts of the State. 



+- +- Stems leafy prostrate stolons : leaves undivided : floieers yellow. 



8. V. sarmentosa, Dougl. Slightly pubescent : leaves rounded-cordate, reni- 

 forru, or sometimes ovate, A to 1J inches broad, finely crenate, dark green above, 

 often rusty below, usually punctate with numerous dark dots : peduncles mostly 

 exceeding the leaves : flowers rather small, light yellow. — Hook. FL i. 80 ; Ton. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 143. 



Near the sea, commonly in woods, from Monterey to British Columbia. At the north it ranges 

 farther inland. 



■f- +- +■ Stems erect, naked beloiv, or nearly so : floivers yellow. 



++ Leaves undivided. 



9. V. glabella, Xutt. Minutely pubescent or glabrous : stems slender from a 

 creeping rootstock, naked or sparingly leafy below, 5 to 12 inches high: radical 

 leaves on elongated petioles, the upper shortly petioled, reniform-cordate to cordate, 

 acute, crenately toothed or crenulate, 1 to 4 inches broad ; stipules usually small 

 and membranaceous, entire or serrulate : flowers bright yellow, half an inch long: 

 petals more or less veined with purple, the lateral ones bearded : capsule ovate- 

 oblong, 3 to 4 lines long, abruptly beaked. — Ton. A- Gray, Fl. i. 142. V. Cana- 

 densis, var. Sitcliensis, Bongard. J', biflora, var. Silchensis, Kegel. V. pubescens, var. 

 scabrhiscula, Gray, Manual, 7!>. 



In shady plans, Mrndorino Co. i /:../.,,../, ,-i ; Mariposa Grove (J/Vs. S. P. Monks); Sierra Co. 

 {Lcmmon); northward to Alaska and eastward across the continent. 



++ ++ Leaves usually lobed or parted. 



10. V. lobata, Benth. Finely pubescent or nearly glabrous : stems rather stent. 

 8 to 12 inches high, from an erect rootstock: Laves glabrous above, cordate or 

 reniform in outline, 2 to 4 inches broad, the cauliue shortly petioled, more or less 

 deeply palmate into 5 to 9 narrowly oblong lobes, the central lobe usually more 

 elongated j some of the radical leaves occasionally less lobed, or entire and coarsely 

 toothed : stipules (liliaceous, often large, toothed or entire : petals 6 to 8 lines long, 

 yellow, the upper brownish purple externally, the others veined or tinged, and the 

 lateral slightly bearded : stigma bearded on each side: capsule 5 to 6 lines long, 

 acute. — PI. Hartw. 298; Ton. in Pacif. R. Pep. iv. 08. V. S,qw>iuisis, Iv!i 

 Proa Calif. Acad ii. 185, fig. 55. 



Var. integrifolia, Watson. Leaves not at all lobed. coarsely toothed, acuminate. 



From Son Diego to Mt. Shasta, mosi common in the central Sierra Nevada at 3,nuo to 5. nun 

 feet altitude, but not abundant even there: the variety in Sierra Co., L union, Very variable 

 in iu foliage and pubescence. As in the last species, the upper and later joints of the stem arc 

 short and the leaves approximate. 



V. II \i.Mi, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. ::?7, from 1 Ircgon, is a similar but mere slender species; 

 glabrous; leaves S-parted, the narrow segments 1 S-lobed; lower petals yellow, the upper deep 

 violet ; stigma sim.. undid by liairs. 



