. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 31. Viola lanceolata L. Lance-leaved or Water Violet. Fig. 2953. Viola lanceolata L. Sp. PI. 934. 1753. Glabrous, usually profusely stoloniferous in late summer, the stolons rooting at the nodes and bear- ing apetalous flowers; rootstock slender; scapes 2'-^' high; mature leaves lanceolate or elliptical, the blade 2i'-6' long. s"-io" wide, gradually tapering
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 31. Viola lanceolata L. Lance-leaved or Water Violet. Fig. 2953. Viola lanceolata L. Sp. PI. 934. 1753. Glabrous, usually profusely stoloniferous in late summer, the stolons rooting at the nodes and bear- ing apetalous flowers; rootstock slender; scapes 2'-^' high; mature leaves lanceolate or elliptical, the blade 2i'-6' long. s"-io" wide, gradually tapering into the margined, often reddish petiole, obscurely crenulate; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 2"-3" long; petals 3"-4" long, usually all beardless, the three lower striped with purplish veins; capsules green, ellipsoid, 3"-6" long, those of the cleistogamous flowers on erect peduncles, usually shorter than the leaves; seeds dark brown. Open bogs and moist meadows. Nova Scotia to Min- nesota, south to the coastal plain, where it gives place to the taller and narrower-leaved Viola vitlata Greene. 32. Viola rotundifolia Michx. Round- leaved or Yellow \'iolet. Fig. 2954. V. rotundifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 150. 1803. Rootstock long and stout, jagged with the persistent bases of former leaves; stolons short, usually without roots or leaves, bear- ing 1-4 cleistogamous flowers; leaves oval or orbicular, obtuse, cordate with short and narrow sinus, repand-crenulate, at vernal flowering sparsely hirtellous, about l' wide; in midsummer mostly glabrate, 2-4' wide, prostrate; scapes 2'-4' high; flowers bright yellow, the three lower petals with brown lines, the lateral bearded; style club-shaped, abruptly capitate, beakless; capsule ovoid, 3"-4" long, those from the cleistogamous flowers on deflexed peduncles and closely dotted with purple; seeds nearly white. Cold woods. to western Ontario, south along the Alleghanies to northern Georgia.
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