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 Valeriana ruthenica. Altaic Valerian. 



Class and Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 

 Generic Character. 

 Cal. 0. Cor. I-petala, basi hinc gibba, supera. Slew. I. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Valeriana ruthenica ; floribus tetrandris, foliis ovatis car- 



nosis pinnatifido-dentatis, seminibus paleae ovaii adna- 



tis. WUld.Sp.Pl. 1. p. 181. 

 Valeriana sibirica. Lin. Sp. PL 48. non Willdenovii. 

 Valeriana lutea humilis. Amman. Ruth. 18. n. 25. t. 3. 

 Fedia sibirica ; foliis subcarnosis, caul in is piimatiiidis, la- 



ciniis integerrimis obtusis subuniformibus caule bifa- 



riam piloso. Va hi. Enum. 2. p. 22. 

 Fedia sibirica. Gartn. fruct. 2. p. 37. t. 86. f. 3. 

 Fedia ruthenica. Sweet Hort. suburb, p. 8. 

 Patrinia sibirica; foliis subcarnosis pinnatifidis ; laciniis 



integerrimis obtusis subreniformibus, caule bifariam 



piloso, floribus corymbosis. Dufresne Valer. p. 54. 



Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. '89. 

 Patrinia coronata. Fischer Hort. Gorenki. 43. 



In Jussieu's Genera Plantarum, the genus Valeriana is 

 considered as making a section of Dipsavete, but afterwards 

 in the Annales du Museum, he confirmed the propriety of 

 separating the Valerianece as a distinct family, and in con- 

 sequence has divided the Linnean genus Valeriana into 

 several, either by adopting in part the genera which had 

 been separated before or establishing new ones. Among the 

 latter he proposed the genus Patrinia to which both our 

 present plants and the one figured above (No. 714,) under 

 the name of Valeriana sibirica, belong. It seems general!? 



agreed 



