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some oblong-ovate, with acute apexes and long tapering bases. Some of the 

 leaves may be somewhat sub-cordate. Both lower and higher leaves are 

 more or less erenate, mostly glabrous, with slight pubescence along the 

 midrib and the edges of the petiole. 



The flowers are small, the largest being hardly a centimeter in width 

 when full blown. The petals are white with several purple stripes on their 

 inner surfaces. The pedicels may be 15 cm. or IS cm. long or as long as 

 the leaves. One or two small bract-like leaves appear about half way up 

 the pedicels. If two are present they may be opposite each other or a little 

 apart. The various botanies do not mention these stractures nor does the 



illustration in Britton and Brown show them on this particular violet, 

 although they are shown on a number of the other accaulescent species. 



Stolens are common and give off vigorous new plants. The small 

 reddish-brown seeds are scarcely more than a millimeter in length. 



Viola primulifolia L., occurs in the eastern United States. Its range is 

 given in the various botanies as in moist or almost dry soil from New 

 Brunswick to Florida along the coast. In so far as I know it has not been 

 reported in any other place in this botanical region. How it happened in 

 White County. Indiana, or how general its distribution here is. I do not 

 know. Mr. Deam, who later visited the place with me. thought it might 

 occur also farther north in the State. I have looked for ii, specifically, 



