. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. VIOLACEAE. Vol. II. 45. Viola Walter! House. Prostrate Blue Violet. Fig. 2967. Viola canina Walt. Fl. Car. 219. 1788. Not L. V, Muhlenbergii var. niulticaulis T, & G. Fl. I : 140. 1838. Viola niulticaulis Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5; 22^, 1894. Not Jordan 1852. Viola Walteri House, Torreya 6: 172. 1906. Finely pubervilent; stems several, leafy, bear- ing in
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. VIOLACEAE. Vol. II. 45. Viola Walter! House. Prostrate Blue Violet. Fig. 2967. Viola canina Walt. Fl. Car. 219. 1788. Not L. V, Muhlenbergii var. niulticaulis T, & G. Fl. I : 140. 1838. Viola niulticaulis Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5; 22^, 1894. Not Jordan 1852. Viola Walteri House, Torreya 6: 172. 1906. Finely pubervilent; stems several, leafy, bear- ing in early spring small violet-blue flowers in the axils of basal leaves, at first ascending, later elongating, becoming prostrate, and bear- ing through the season apetalous flovirers on long slender axillary peduncles; stems often surviving the winter and sending up in spring from their tips rosettes of leaves and petalif- erous flowers, afterwards rooting and forming new plants; blades mostly orbicular, cordate, rounded or obtuse at the apex, crenulate, i'-li' wide, often mottled with darker green border- ing the veins; stipules bristly fimbriate, 3"-5" long; capsules purplish, ovoid-globose, 3" long; seeds brown. Dry woodlands, Kentucky to South Carolina, Florida and Texas. 46. Viola rostrata Pursn. Long-spurred Violet. Fig. 2968. Viola rostrata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 174. 1814. Stems often numerous, commonly 4'-8' high; leaves orbicular to broadly ovate, cordate, nearly or quite glabrous, serrate, the upper acute or pointed; petaliferous flowers raised on long pe- duncles above the leaves; petals spotted with darker violet, all beardless; spur slender, s"-/' long; cleistogamous flowers, with minute or aborted petals, appearing later on short peduncles from the axils of the upper leaves; style straight, beakless, glabrous; capsules ovoid, li"-3" long, glabrous ; seeds light brown. Shady hillsides in leaf-mould, Quebec to Michigan, south in
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