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hills at Saratoga, Mississippi, 4 April, 1903, by Mr. S. M. 

 Tracy. These I take as the type of a new subspecies which may 

 be called 



Viola ampliata. Of the habit and with the foliage of V. 

 pedata but taller, commonly 5 to 8 inches high, glabrous or very 

 nearly so, the rootstock not as stout, often ascending rather than 

 erect : sepals thin, broader at base than those of the ally, more 

 slenderly tapering, the margins merely serrulate-scabrous : corolla 

 about 2 inches long, the petals thin, pale-blue, the odd one with 

 a conspicuous stout upturned and almost hooked spur. 



Besides the type specimens in my own herbarium, I find two 

 sheets in the U. S. Herb, which seem to represent the species. 

 The most undoubted of these is from Meridian, Miss., by Mr. 

 Canby, 4 April, 1900. Of the two specimens one is six inches 

 high, the other nine, and the plants are as slender as those of 

 Mr. Tracy ; the dry corollas measuring about \h inches, the 

 sepals and spur as in Mr. Tracy's plants. The other one is from 

 Auburn, Ala., 22 Apr. 1900, by Mr. Barle. Here the corolla is 

 as large, but the two upper petals seem to have been red-purple. 

 The specimens are from five to six inches high, slender, from 

 ascending rootstocks ; but the spur in these is not stout, nor has 

 it a certain acutangular upper terminal corner, so to speak, 

 which gives the somehwat hooked appearance to that of the type. 



While ordinarily V. pedata and inornata have a merely saccate 

 lower petal, this barely visible between the two sepals next it, 

 there are nevertheless rare forms of these exhibiting a distinct 

 and even conspicuous spur. In the U. S. Herb., one sheet, from 

 New Providence, Penn., by A. A. Heller, May, 1900, has flowers 

 with an evident spur, not long, yet long enough to be rather 

 strongly curved. It terminates obtusely, with no hint of any 

 angularity at the end. Another sheet, from Reading, Mass., by 

 Chester Kingman, 17 May, 1897, has a peculiar, well elongated 

 narrow upturned spur. The corolla here is li inches long, the 

 petals all of one color, and all emarginate. In both these 

 instances the plants are, in all except the spur, quite like the 

 usual V. pedata, and do not connect with V. ampliata. 



