
VIOLET FAMILY, Violaceae. 
An attractive kind, usually about three 
: inches tall, with almost smooth leaves, 
Violet y ‘ ‘ : : 
Wiki wentisn often with purplish veins, with blunt tips 
Yellow and margins obscurely or coarsely toothed, 
Spring or almost toothless, and with long leaf- 
“eblngyrs and stalks. The flowers are usually less than 
half an inch long, with clear yellow petals, 
more or less tinged with purple on the outside, the lower 
petal usually with several, purplish-black veins, the two 
side petals with one or two veins. This has no scent, the 
capsule is roundish and hairy, and the cleistogamous 
flowers are abundant. It grows on dry mountainsides 
and is very variable both as to flower and foliage and much 
smaller at great altitudes, the whole plant being not more 
Yellow Mountain 
- than aninch high. The drawing is of a Utah plant. 
: This is quite tall, the slender, rather 
Canada Violet . E 
Viola Canadénsis Weak stems being sometimes over a foot 
Pale-violet, white high, with smooth leaves, often with some 
Spring,summer hairs on the veins of the under side. The 
By: etc., except Aowers, over half an inch across, with a 
‘ short petal-spur, are almost white, deli- 
cately veined with purple, yellow in the throat and tinged 
with violet or purple on the outside. Occasionally they 
are pure-white all over and sometimes sweet-scented. The 
capsule is oval and smooth. ‘This is common in eastern 
mountain woods, and to eastern eyes looked far from 
home when we found it in Walnut Canyon in Arizona. 
_This is small and low, about three inches 
weente high, with leafy stems, forming a clump 
Viola adiinca var, Of Small, smooth, more or less toothed 
glabra leaves, with blunt tips, dark green on the 
Pale-blue upper side and paler on the under, with 
er yy summer two, quite large, fringed bracts at the 
bases of the leaf-stalks, and two, small, 
fringed bracts on the flower-stems, half an inch below the 
flower. The flowers are scentless, measure less than half 
an inch across, and are pale-blue or almost white, with veins 
of dark blue on the lower petal and tufts of white, fuzzy 
hairs inside, at the base of the side petals, the spur purplish. 
This grows in mountain canyons, at a height of five thou- 
sand to nine thousand feet, and is very small at niles 
altitudes. 
Pale Mountain 
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