A fascici^b; of vioi^ets. 95 



apetalous aestival and autumnal flower on upright petioles 

 almost as long. 



Southeastern Maryland, on the Nanticoke River, near 

 Vienna, 23 Aug., 1906, collected by Forrest Shreve and W. R. 

 Jones ; their n. 1340 as in U. S. Herb. There is another sheet 

 of the same from further northward, and not far from Balti- 

 more, by C. O. Thurston, 19 May, 1889. It is from these 

 specimens that the character of the early flowers is drawn. 

 The species is named in reference to the form of its very broad 

 and rounded leaves, recalling as they do those of genuine 

 Senecio aureus as we have it in the damp woods of Maryland 

 and Virginia. 



Viola LunFIvI<ii. Acaulescent, low, with small foliage and 

 few large blue-purple flowers, all parts glabrous : most typical 

 leaves, at time of petaliferous flowering exactly cordate-ovate, 

 acute, less than an inch long, not cucullate, the very earliest 

 and smallest usually reniform and obtuse, others intermediate 

 between those and the typical and acutely cordiform : pedun- 

 cles stoutish, surpassing the leaves, their small green bractlets 

 triangular-subulate, inserted much above the middle : sepals 

 short for the corolla, oval-oblong, very obtuse, even almost 

 retuse now and then ; corolla %^ inch long, of almost the same 

 breadth, petals subequal, the upper pair with oval limb, these 

 and the laterals obtuse, the odd petal rather broader and so 

 deeply emarginate as to be almost obcordate. 



An inhabitant of wet meadows or swamps near I,eeds, North 

 Dakota, 31 May, 1910. At first glance recalling my V. cog- 

 nata of wet meadows in Wyoming and Montana, being of 

 about the size of that species ; but the type of leaf outline is 

 so different, that the best specimens recall so very dissimilar 

 a plant as V. Selkirkii, to which V. Lunellii is nevertheless in 

 no degree related. Dr. lyUnell himself pointed out to me the 

 fact of his inability to reconcile the plant with my description 

 of V. cognata because of the entirely dissimilar calyx, which 

 my Dakota correspondent finds in his plant, made up of sepals 



