670 VALERIANEZ. IV. VALERIANELLA. V. ASTREPHIA. 
Dwarf Lamb’s-lettuce. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1826. Pl. 4 
to 1 foot. 
18 V. senæroca’rra (D. C. prod. 4. p. 628.) fruit globose, 
umbilicate on one side, and convex and bicostate on the other ; 
limb of calyx tridentate, one of the teeth longer than the others ; 
bracteas spreading, lanceolate, acute, with scarious serrately cili- 
ated edges ; leaves linear-lanceolate, rather scabrous : uppermost 
ones pinnatifid at the base; stem smooth. ©. H. Native of 
Sicily, in pastures on the mountains. Fédia spherocarpa, Guss. 
prod. 1. p. 28. pl. rar. p. 14. t. 4. f. 1. 
Round-fruited Lamb’s-lettuce. P1. 3 foot. 
19 V. cympoca’rpa (Meyer. verz. pfi. p. 49.) fruit nearly 
linear, with the 2 sterile cells curved, and the fertile cell rounded 
on the back, and nearly equal; crown of fruit campanulate, 3 
and sometimes 4-toothed: the lateral tooth elongated, linear, 
and straight, the rest usually obsolete. ©. H. Native of 
Caucasus, near Swant, in arid places. 
Boat~fruited Lamb’s-lettuce. Pl. $ foot. 
20 V. rriconoca’rpa (D. C. prod. 4. p. 628.) fruit trigonal, 
glabrous, broadly excavated in front, almost without a crown, 
with callous angles: the 2 sterile cells of the fruit larger than 
the fertile one; bracteas oblong-linear, glabrous, spreading ; 
flowers capitate : leaves quite entire: lower ones ovate-oblong, 
upper ones oblong, ciliated at the base. ©. H. Native about 
Constantinople, where it was collected by Castagne. 
Trigonal-fruited Lamb’s-lettuce. PJ. 4 foot. 
** Teeth of calycine limb hooked at the apex. 
21 V. uama'ra (Bast, in D. C. prod. 4. p. 628.) fruit ovoid, 
villous outside, somewhat tetragonal, engraven in front: the 2 
sterile cells about equal in breadth to the fertile one; limb of 
calyx spreading, broader than the fruit, quite glabrous inside, 
and cleft into 6 lobes beyond the middle; lobes awned, hooked 
at the apex; bracteas adpressed, oblong, ciliated ; flowers ra- 
ther densely capitate; upper leaves linear, entire or tripartite, 
and are as well as the stem glabrous. ©. H. Native in the 
region of the Mediterranean. D. C. coll. mem. t. 3. f. 7. V. 
coronàta, Guss. prod. 1. p. 25. V. coronàta integrifòlia, Rchb. 
pl. crit. 1. p. 54. t. 66. f. 1.—Col. ecphr. t. 209. Fèdia coro- 
nàta of many authors. Flowers pink. 
Hooked Lamb’s-lettuce. Fl. May, June. Clt.? Pl. 3 foot. 
22 V. corona‘ta (D.C. prod. 4. p. 628.) fruit ovoid, villous, 
somewhat tetragonal, engraven in front: the 2 sterile cells about 
equal in breadth to the fertile one; limb of calyx cup-shaped, 
broader than the fruit, hairy inside, cleft into 6 lobes beyond the 
middle: lobes awned, hooked at the apex; bracteas adpressed, 
ciliated; flowers densely capitate; superior leaves pinnatifid, 
and are as well as the stem downy. ©.H. Native of the re- 
gion of the Mediterranean. V. coronata, D. C. fl. fr. no. 3333. 
Dufr. val. 60. t. 3. f. 2. Fèdia Sicula, Guss. prod. 1. p. 25. 
Fédia coronata, Rchb. pl. crit. t. 66. f. Bet y. Vahl, enum. 2, 
p. 20. Flowers pink. 
Var. B, discoidea (D. C. prod. 4. p. 628.) limb of calyx irre- 
gularly 7-12-lobed. ©.H. Native of the region of the Medi- 
terranean. V. discoidea, var. Dufr. val. p. 59. t. 3. f. 3. D. C. 
fl. fr. 5. p. 493. Fèdia discoidea, Vahl, enum. 2. p. 21. Rchb. 
pl. crit. t. 116. 
Crowned Lamb’s-lettuce. Fl. April, June. Clt. 1731. Pl. } ft. 
= * Limb of calyx inflated, closed by the inflexed calycine 
teeth. 
23 V. vesica'r1a (Meench. meth. p. 497.) fruit villous, crowned; 
limb of calyx bladdery, inflated, 6-toothed; teeth conniving, 
acute; the 2 sterile cells of fruit a little smaller than the fertile 
one, or nearly equal in size to it; bracteas adpressed, ovate, 
ciliated, shorter than the fruit; leaves entire or toothed; stem 
rather villous. ©.H. Native in the region of the Mediterra- 
nean, in corn-fields. D.C. fl. fr. 4. no. 3332. coll. mem. t, 3, 
f. 8. Dufr. val. p. 60. t. 3. f. 9. Fèdia vesicaria, Vahl, enum. 
2. p. 20. Rchb. pl. crit. 1. t. 70. Valeriàna vesicària, Willd. 
Val. locústa, 6, vesicària, Lin. Sibth. et Smith, fl. græc. t. 34, 
Flowers lilac. 
Bladdery-calyxed Lamb’s-lettuce. FI. April, June. Clt. 1739. 
Pl 4 to 3 foot. 
§ 4. Solenocælæ (from cwdny, solen, a tube, and roog, koilos, 
a hollow; in reference to the sterile cells of the fruit). D. C. 
prod. 4. p. 629. Fruit S-celled, broadly furrowed in front; the 
fertile cell not cellularly gibbose on the back, and the 2 sterile 
cells broader than the fertile one, and curved, and therefore the 
transverse section is lunulate. 
* Lobes of calyx hooked a little. 
24 V. PLATY LOBA (Dufr. val. 59. t. 3. f. 1.) fruit ovoid, vil- 
lous outside, rather tetragonal, broadly furrowed in front, boat- 
shaped ; limb of calyx spreading, broader than the fruit, rather 
hairy inside, 6-lobed to the middle ; lobes ovate, each furnished 
with a hooked mucrone; bracteas adpressed, ciliated, oblong ; 
flowers sub-capitate ; upper leaves toothed, and are as well as 
the stem glabrous. ©.H. Native in the region of the Medi- 
terranean. D.C. coll. mem. 3. f. 9. Fèdia discoidea, Rchb. 
pl. crit. 1. p. 54. t. 67. Fédia rotata, Rchb. l. c. p. 93. Flowers 
ink. 
i Broad-lobed Lamb’s-lettuce. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1825. 
Pl. 3 foot. 
* * Limb of calyx erect. : 
25 V. carina‘ta (Lois. not. p. 149.) fruit oblong, longi- 
tudinally boat-shaped, or chinky on one side, and cari- 
nated ; the 2 sterile cells compressed, curved, about equal in 
size to the fertile cell; fruit crowned by the unidentate erect 
limb of the calyx; flowers sub-capitate ; bracteas oblong, 
spreading, serrately ciliated; leaves oblong, almost obovate, 
quite entire. ©. H. Native of France, Germany, Ta 
Sicily, &c. in corn-fields. Dufr. val. p. 56. t. 2. D.C. fl. fr. supp! 
492. coll. mem. t. 3. f. 10. Fédia carinata, Stev. mem. soc. Mosc. 
5. p. 346. Roem. et Schultes, syst. 1. p. 361. Rchb. pl. crit. t. 61. 
—Moris. oxon, sect. 7. t. 16. f. 31. Habit of V. olitòria. Stem 
smooth, dichotomous. Flowers blue. 
Keeled-fruited Lamb’s-lettuce. Fl. April, June. Clt. 1819. 
Pl. 4 to 4 foot. 
+ Species not sufficiently known. 
26 V. cuEenopopiroLia (D. C. prod. 4. p. 629.) plant dicho- 
tomous ; leaves ovate, acute, toothed below ; cymes naked, divari- 
cate, dichotomous ; filaments long. ©. H. Native of Virginia. 
Fédia chenopodifdlia, Pursh, fl. amer. sept. 2. p. 727. 
Goose-foot-leaved Lamb’s-lettuce. PI. j 
Cult. The seeds of all the species only require to be pita 
the open ground in the early part of spring. All the specie 
answer very well for spring salad. 
V. ASTRE'PHIA (from a, priv., and orpepw, strepho, to vi 
the calyx is not turned back at the time of flowering; as n C 
leriana). Dufr. val. p. 50. exclusive of many species. T 
coll. mem. vii. prod. 4. p. 629.—Hemesotria, Rafin. ann. ee 
sc. phys. 6. p. 88.—Valeriana species, Ruiz et Pav. Smith. 
Fédia species, Kunth. : hort 
Li. syst. Tridndria, Monogýnia. Tube of calyx very SHOFs 
somewhat 5-toothed or subcampanulate. Corolla funnel-shapt ; 
5-lobed, gibbous on one side at the base, and therefore furnish’ é 
with akind of spur. Stamens 3. Style 3-cleft at the apex i pe 
mas slender. Fruit 2-celled, one of the cells alone fertile ; a 
the other is sterile, and marked by a furrow in the middle, gi 
therefore probably formed of 2 cells, having the partition betw 
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