. 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. Genus i. VIOLET FAMILY. 561 42. Viola labradorica Schrank. Alpine Violet. Fig. 2964. V. labradorica Schrank, Denksch. Bot. Gesell Regensb. 2 : 12. 1818. Viola punctata Schwein. Am. Journ. Sci s â 67 1822. V. Muhlenbergiana var. minor Hook. FI. Bor Am i: 78. 1830. _ Rootstock long, tapering, scaly above, some- times branching; stems few, slender, 1-3- leaved, er
. 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. Genus i. VIOLET FAMILY. 561 42. Viola labradorica Schrank. Alpine Violet. Fig. 2964. V. labradorica Schrank, Denksch. Bot. Gesell Regensb. 2 : 12. 1818. Viola punctata Schwein. Am. Journ. Sci s â 67 1822. V. Muhlenbergiana var. minor Hook. FI. Bor Am i: 78. 1830. _ Rootstock long, tapering, scaly above, some- times branching; stems few, slender, 1-3- leaved, erect or ascending, usually about 2V high, bearing i or 2 petaliferous flowers on long peduncles; lower leaves long-petioled, blades orbicular, subcordate, glabrous, i'-l' wide; upper leaves on shorter petioles with smaller blades, more or less ovate, obtuse, sparsely hirtellous on the upper surface; stip- ules linear, attenuate, entire or with one or two filiform appendages at the base; petals deep violet; sepals lanceolate with round auri- â¢^ cles; capsules subglobose, 2i" long. Alpine and subarctic; Greenland and Labrador, south to the high mountains of Maine New Hampshire and New York. 43. Viola adunca J. E. Smith. Viola adunca Ij. E. Smith in Rees' Cycl. 37 : No. 63. 1817. Viola longipes Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 140. 1838. Viola canina L. var. adunca A. Gray, Proc. Am Acad. 8. 377. 1872. Glabrous or nearly so; rootstock woody, jagged and chaffy from the remains of former leaves; stems slender, several or many and spreading, i}'-i2' high, bearing 1-3 axillary flowers; basal and lower stem-leaves long- petioled, the blades ovate, obtuse, finely cren ate, subcordate^or more or less decurrent at the base, s"-io" wide; upper leaves short-petioled, iiarrower, less rounded at the apex; stipules linear, attenuate, sparsely spinulose-serrulate; flowers usually raised above the leaves on peduncles ii'-4' long; petals violet to purple, 5"-7i&qu
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