. 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. 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'-4' high; mature leaves lanceolate or elliptical, the blade 2i'-6' long, 5"-io" wide, gradually t
. 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. 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'-4' high; mature leaves lanceolate or elliptical, the blade 2i'-6' long, 5"-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 vittata Greene. 32. Viola rotundifolia Michx. Round- leaved or Yellow Violet. 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-creniilate, at vernal flowering sparsely hirtellous, about i' 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, Maine to western Ontario, south along the Alleghanies to northern
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