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scarcely broadened at the end and beardless, the lateral petals 

 with small tufts of white hairs at the base; spur about 4 mm long, 

 full and rounded. Cleistogenes on short horizontal or deflexed 

 pedicels; their pods oblong, 6 to 8 mm long, seeds ovate, drab-colored. 



Fishers, Ontario county. On shaded hillsides and moist wood- 

 lands which become dry in late summer. H. D. House and M. S. 

 Baxter, June 3, 19 16. Same locality. M. S. Baxter, September 

 10, 1916. 



Hybridizes freely with- Viola fimbriatula J. E. Smith, 

 producing luxuriant clumps of sterile plants with elongated leaves 

 in which the middle segment is greatly elongated and 3-lobed above 

 the middle, the lateral segments greatly reduced and sometimes 

 not divided, giving a pinnate appearance to the entire leaf -blade. 

 This may be designated as Viola fimbriatulax perpensa hyb. nov. 



Viola perpensa is regarded by Mr Brainerd (Torrey Club 

 Bui. 37 1583. 19 10) as a " form or geographical race "of Viola 

 p a 1 m a t a. It ranges from central New York westward through 

 the Ontario lowlands and the Great Lakes region to Minnesota. 

 In the first edition of Brit ton and Brown's Illustrated Flora it is 

 referred to as a " form with the lateral leaf -lobes linear, perhaps 

 distinct." In Britton's Manual it is included in the description 

 of Viola bernardi Greene. 



10 OSWEGO COUNTY 



Among the species of Carex to be recorded for Oswego county are 

 the following : 



Carex albicans Willi. Lewis' bluff near Oswego (Sheldon) 

 " deflexa Hornm. Lewis' bluff near Oswego (Sheldon) 

 " pallescens L. Lewis' bluff near Oswego (Sheldon) 

 " communis Bailey. Lewis' bluff near Oswego (Sheldon) 

 " pedunculata Muhl. Lewis' bluff near Oswego (Sheldon) 

 " albursina Sheldon. Lewis' bluff near Oswego (Sheldon) 

 " projecta Mackenzie. Lake shore near Oswego (House) 

 " hystricina Muhl. Swamp near Oswego (Sheldon) 

 " bromoides Schk. Mud lake near Hannibal (House) 

 " stellulate Good. var. cephalantha {Bailey) Fernald. Mud lake near 



Hannibal (House) 

 " scab rata Schw. Panther lake near Constantia (House) 



11 RENSSELAER COUNTY 

 Carex typhinoides Schw. 

 Sand Lake. H. D. House. No. 5179. July 4, 19 13. 



