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dein united petals: tube often swollen or spurred. Androecium of 1-4 
stamens: filaments adnate to the coro a ube. Gynoecium 3-carpellary 
but aa 1 earpel fruetiferous. Ovary inferior. Fruit a kind of leathery 
or erustaeeous nutlet— About 9 genera an 300 species, widely distributed. 
Sepals becoming bristle-like or awn-like: fruit 1-celled : tall herbs often with divided 
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leaf-bl ades VALERI IANA. 
Sepals minute or wanting: fruit 3-celled: low herbs with undi- 
vided 1 leaf-blades, 2. VALERIANELLA. 
VALERIANA [Tourn.] L. Perennial T scented herbs or vines. 
Leaf- zn entire, toothed, or pinnatifid. Flowers perfect, in compact cymes. 
Calyx with’ an inrolled limb which Bis expands and develops 5-15 
plumose Ede Corolla funnelform or salverform. Stamens 3 or fewer. 
Fruit 1-celled, the 2 abortive carpels appearing as 4 ridges. —About 175 species, 
most aana in the cooler parts of the north temperate zone and the mts. of 
outh America. 
Corolla 1.5-2 mm. long : fruit pubescent : upper stem-leaves ternate. 1. V. scandens 
. Corolla dE 20 mm. long: fruit glabrous: upper stem-leaves pinnate. 2. V. pauciflora. 
V. scan dens L. "Vine: blades of the m leaves ovate, Vd, bracts 1-2 
and hammocks, pen. Fla—(W. I. Mez., 
C. á., S. A.)—A1l year. | 
2. V. pauciflora Michx. Plants 1 m. tall 
or less: blades of the basal leaves des Or 
Poe tee ir mostly toothed: braets 4—8 
long: rescence congested: aie 
Wn pink; ches less than 4 as long as the 
tube: fruit oblong, 5-6 mm. lon -—Stream- 
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aie an Peur herb with flowers showy. 
2. VALERIANELLA [Tourn.] Mill Annual, vernal, succulent pene 
the stems dichotomous. eaf-blades entire, toothed, lobed, or pinn 
Flowers perfect, in clustered or corymbose eymes. Calyx shallowly ne or 
obsolete. . Corolla funnelform, white, pink, or blue. Stamens 3. Fruit with 
the abortive carpels more or less elongate. About 50 species, natives of North- 
ern Hemisphere.—Spr.-sum.—CORN-SALADS. LAMB'S-LETTUCES. 
Corolla blue or es ae ot about twice as d as thick. 1. V. Locusta. 
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groove between the sterile portions. 2. V. radiata. 
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. V. umbilicata. 
Bit. eavities dilated and diSenment forming & saucer- 
shaped body notched at both ends. 4. V. patellaria. 
Enpo cavities contiguous, with an elliptic depression 
between them . V. Woodsiana. 
