A new violet from Utah

A beautiful violet strikingly different from any species heretofore reported from Utah was discovered by the writer growing 011 vacant property on the outskirts of Salt Lake City at the corner of 13th South and 17th E as t streets, April 17, 1937.*' This property and neighboring areas to the east have for years been known to harbor one of the few relict colonies of Viola beckwithii t . & g . once so widely distributed over the Bonneville bench lands along the W a satch front. Growing in this same area are numerous plants of Viola purpurea venosa (Wats.) Brainard.