FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERXS OF INDIANA. 845 



V. rostrata Pursh. Long-spurred Violet. 



Keported from four counties. The southern station is the 

 "Clifty Ravine," in Jefferson County, a locality noted for the 

 number of exceptional forms it contains. Not abundant in either 

 of its stations. 



Flowering in June and July. 



Jefferson (Barnes): Noble (Van Gorder): Steuben (Bradner); 

 Laporte. 



V. tricolor L. Pansy. 



Found in waste places in some of the southern counties as an 

 escape from cultivation. As an escape it rapidly loses in size 

 and number of flowers, and also in variety of colors. After a few 

 years, it blooms but sparingly and the flowers are very small. 



Flowering season from April until June. 



Knox (Spillman); Shelby (Ballard); Jefferson. 



V. tenella Muhl. Field Pansy. 



Not uncommon in the southern counties in woods and fields, 

 growing in rich sojIs and with almost as great frequency on sandy 

 banks. 



Flowers from March until August. 



Jefferson and Madison (Barnes); Gibson and Posey (Schneck); 

 Clark (Baird and Taylor); Franklin (Meyncke); Dearborn (Col- 

 lins); Vigo (Blatchley); Tippecanoe. 



CUBEL1UM Eat. 



C. concolor (Forst.) Raf. Green Violet. 



(Solea concolor Ging.) 



In moist, shaded places, usually in rocky or coarse soil. Also 

 found in alluvial soils. Plentiful in the stations in which it 

 occurs. 



Flowering season from May until July. 



Jefferson (Barnes); Tippecanoe (Hussey); Monroe and Vigo 

 (Blatchley); Putnam (MacDougal);' Cass and Fayette (Hessler); 

 Clark (Baird and Taylor); Franklin (Meyncke); Wayne (Phin- 

 ney); Hamilton (Wilson). 



