^xhhizhxixxy^zxrixoxxt. Feb. 3, 1904. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



ky dears ir: 



I an sending you today a few specimens of blue 

 stemless violets from Western New England which *%Xl illustrate my arti- 

 cle in Rhodora. I have found out since writing it that V. venust ula, 

 C-reene is really the same specifically as the plftllt of the Middle States 

 Turned Vj af finis by creene ft Pollard, and this is,.. in my opinion, what Fill 

 named V _obliqua In. 179ft, I ftp*** of this to explain 'he name you Will 

 find on my label. 



I have before me a most interesting plant of your collecting , lab— 

 eled "Viola palmata,Needham, Mass., June 7, 10SjS.*Zt is rather v. sep- 

 temloba, I.eOonte, and it If) the best specimen I have yet seen of the 

 cleistogamous flowers and the young fruit of this species. It is r -mark- 

 ftfely close to V. pedatifida of the Middle West; in fact I am seriously 

 in doubt as to whether these two species should not be put together, 

 nr. r ray says in the Synoptic-"- 1 Flora (Vol. i. 193, under f* pedatifida, ) 

 "Occasional similar specimens occur in New England." Possible Dr. PMy 

 had one of your specimens before him. Rut I believe in this remark he 



spoke more wisely than some recent students of the genua have given 

 him credit for. 



Have you still left any duplicates of this collecting'? if so£ should 

 be glad toget specimens. I hope you rW* collect it again next season both 

 in flower and in late summer fruit. 



Dr. Robinson once told me of some one of the Boston fr* Cambridge 

 botanists who thought you had two distinct things passing under the name 

 V. ovata, i.e. v. f imbriatula.Do you happen to know who this is? 



