SMOOTH YELLOW VIOLET 



Viola eriocar-pa 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 

 northward to Nova Scotia and Manitoba, being thus somewhat 

 more southern in range than its relative, the downy yellow violet. 



The specimen sketched was obtained at Plummers Island in the 

 Potomac River near Washington, District of Columbia. 



PLATE 2.2-4 



