A NEW BLAND VIOLET. 347 



A New Bland Violet. 



Viola minuscula. Allied to V. blanda and white-flowered, 

 but extremely small, the largest plants only \\ inches high, 

 growing in dense matted masses : leaves small, on peticjles shorter 

 than the blades, these subreniform-orbicular, \ to J inch long, 

 hardly as broad, very obtuse, faintly crenate, glabrous on both 

 faces, the petioles, especially of the later season, hirtellous : 

 peduncles quite surpassing the leaves, prominently bracted 

 below the middle ; sepals oval and oblong-elliptic ; corolla white, 

 large as in V. blanda, not fragrant. Plant in summer not 

 larger than in spring, producing most delicately illif orm stolons 

 and a few very short-stalked parthenogenetic flowers ; the suc- 

 ceeding pods long and narrow. 



This interesting violet has been sent me from western New 

 York, Ohatauqua County, by Mr. William B. Limberger, with 

 full notes of its habitat, and characteristics as differing from V. 

 blanda. It is said to be the very first of all violets to appear in 

 the spring, in that region ; being three weeks earlier than F 

 blanda. Its habitat is wet meadows, where it is associated with 

 that small low caulescent violet, V. cardaminefolia, Greene. 

 V. blanda, a plant always several times larger, has a different 

 habitat in the region, and is never seen growing with or near 

 V. minus cula. 



On page 238 preceding I twice wrote, inadvertently, Guille- 

 NiA ROSTEATA, where it should have been G. lojtgirostris, etc. 



