VIOLET FAMILY 143 
leaves of which are pubescent or hairy. The 
latter is found in the Northern States. 
Another common and widely distributed white: 
violet is the Lance-leaved Violet. It occurs in 
damp situations in a region whose limits are 
Nova Scotia and Florida on the east and Minne- 
sota and Texas on the west. It may be known 
at once by its long, slender, lance-like leaves. 
The Primrose-leaved Violet differs from the 
other white violets in its oval or ovate leaves. 
It is a lover of moist situations more or less 
exposed to sunshine. It is an eastern form, occur- 
ring from “New Brunswick to. Central New 
York, ‘Florida and Louisiana.” 
YELLOW VIOLETS. Only one species of stem- 
less yellow violet commonly occurs in our flora: 
this is the Round-leaved Violet. It is found in 
open woods as well as on rocky hillsides from 
Labrador to North Carolina, extending westward 
to Minnesota. 
Passing now to the stemmed violets, in which 
leaves and blossoms are borne on upright stems, 
we find one common yellow sort—the Hairy 
or Downy Yellow Violet. This is a widely 
distributed species with kidney-shaped leaves, and 
having both leaves and stems thickly covered with 
tiny hairs. This fact at once distinguishes it . 
from the Smoothish Yellow Violet which is a less 
common sort. 
