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Valeriana Sibirica Siberian 

 Valerian, 



Oafs and Order. 

 Triandria Monocynia. 



Generic Charafter. 

 Cal. o. Cor. l-petala, bafi hinc gibba, fupera. Sem. 1. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



VALERIANA fibirica ,- floribus tetrandris aequalibus, foliis 

 pinnatifidis, feminibus paleae ovali ftdnatis. 

 Sp. PI. 48. Hort. Up/. 13. Wiild. Sp. PI. 1. 

 181. hniph. Orig. cent. 5. 



VALERIANA rupefiris ; floribus pentapetalis faepius pent- 

 andris, foliis crcbris pinnatifidis, feminibus 

 folliculo paleaceo innatis. Pall. ltin. 3. p. 

 215. 



FEDIA fibirica. Gartn. defr. etfem. 2. p. 37. /. 85, 



Desc. Root perennial. Radical leaves numerous, elongate- 

 lanceolate, dentate-pinnatifid, glaucous and veined on the 

 under fide, with keeled footftalks, all fimilar : Cauline ones 

 feflile, more rigid, horizontal, folded, the upper pair nearly 

 entire, the lower dentate. StalkereQ, a little flattened, branches 

 oppofite, horizontal. Bracles three, unequal, fubulate, imme- 

 diately below the germen. Flowers panicled. Corolla yellow, 

 one-petaled, faucer-fhaped : tube rugofe : limb five-cleft, 

 fegrnents rounded, quite entire. Filaments hairy, the length 

 of corolla, invariably four. Anthers round, yellow. Germen 

 inferior. Style Ample, length of filaments. Stigma globofe. 

 Seed oval, attached to a chaffy leaflet which appears to us to. 

 be one of the bracles enlarged. 



Seems 



