VIOLA ARVATICA 5 
not longer — the sepaline appendages, sometimes purplish. 
no. 3526, as this plant. V. rwralis was described in Boreau’s 
Flore du Centre, ed. iii., and appended to his description is the 
, is.’ An examination of 
specimens named agrestis by Jordan himself has led to the con- 
ly I the agrestis of Jordan’s figure and description 
“agrestis a,” wh he distinct plant just referred to I called 
“agrestis B.” This provisional naming, however, clearly can- 
stand, and it became necessary t another name for 
“agrestis 3.’ Obviously this involves a denial of the name 
appear rather unsatisfactory, I may h 
526, and our own P 
ll., and ured. In this case the name 
replace rwralis. This matter will be treated at length below. 
7. VIOLA ARVATICA 
Jordan, Pugillus, p. 24. 
Plant generally small, about 5 in. in height, but when growing 
: im i or more in length, the 
a f 
stem becoming lax with long slender internodes. Stem pube- 
olate acute. Stipules more or 
less ciliate, lateral lobes narrow linear, and arising successively up 
to this organ; middle lobe 
