Description: English: Plate 136-B. Viola pedatifida var. brittoniana (Pollard) R.J. Little and L.E. McKinney (as syn. Viola brittoniana Pollard) - Coastal violet, Northern coastal violet, Britton’s violet. Date: 1918. Source: Wild Flowers of New York Part 1, University of the State of New York, State Museum, Albany.. Author: Homer D. House, New York State Botanist. Walter B. Starr of the Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, and Harold H. Snyder of the Zeese-Wilkinson Company, New York, photographers.