PLANTS OF NORTH ELBA 



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Lepidium Virginicum L. 



Wild pepper grass 



Introduced and growing in waste places and by roadsides. Raybrook. 

 August. 



Lepidium apetalum Willd. 

 Apetalous pepper grass 

 Pastures and roadsides. Wood farm. August. 



VIOLACEAE 

 VIOLA 



Acaulescent t 1 



Caulesceut 4 



1 Flowers blue or violet 2 



1 Flowers some other color 3 



2 Leaves deeply cleft or lobed palmata 



2 Leaves eutire obliqua 



3 Flowers yellow rotundifoiia 



3 Flowers white blautla 



4 Flowers blue, plant glabrous Labradorica 



4 Flowers blue, plant pubeiulent arenaria 



4 Flowers yellow scabriuscula 



4 Flowers white or nearly so Canadensis 



Viola palmata L. 



Palmate violet. Early blue violet 



Very rare. A few plants were seen by the side of the road to Epps 

 farm a short distance south of the main road. They were not in flower. 



Viola obliqua Hill 



V. palmata cucullata Gray 



Common blue violet. Meadow violet 



Meadows, pastures and roadsides. Very common. June. C. L. 

 Pollard who has recently made a revision of the acaulescent blue violets 

 has reached the conclusion that this common species is not the true V, 

 obliqua Hill, but an undescribed species to which he has given the name 

 Viola communis. The hooded violet, V. cucullata Ait., which has gener- 

 ally been regarded as specifically the same as this and which occurs in 

 the southern part of Essex county, may yet be found in some of the 

 swamps or wet places in North Elba. It may be known by its broader 

 paler leaves, its paler flowers raised above the leaves by their long ped- 

 uncles and by the slender erect peduncles of the cleistogamous flowers. 



