SMOOTH YELLOW VIOLET 
Viola ertocarpa Schweinitz 
Among the host of violets, perhaps none is better known to the 
flower lover than this dainty yellow species, which grows so plen- 
tifully in its favorite habitat. A lover of low, open woods, it is early 
in bloom, and soon is past its full beauty. 
Bryant alludes to one of the yellow violets when he tells us that 
When beechen buds begin to swell 
And woods the bluebird’s warble know 
The yellow violet’s modest bell 
Peeps from the last year’s leaves below. 
The smooth yellow violet occurs from Georgia to Texas and 
notthwatd to Nova Scotia and Manitoba, being thus somewhat 
more southern in range than its telative, the downy yellow violet. 
The specimen sketched was obtained at Plummers Island in the 
Potomac River near Washington, District of Columbia. 
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