CLASS WT.—TRIANDRIA. 
Cee 
Order 1.—Monoeynta. 
+ Flowers superior, complete. 
29. VALERIANA. L. ( Valerian.) 
 Calix 0, or minutely marginal, at length 
evolved in a plumose pappus. Corolla mono- 
petalous, tubular, somewhat funnel. form, cal- 
carate or gibbous at the base, limb 5-cleft. 
Seel 1, usually crowned with the calycine pap- 
pus. (Siamens exserted 1, 2, 3, and 4.) 
ao for the must part in terminal corymbs or pani- 
Spectres. 1.7. paucifiora.t 
30. FEDIA. Geritner.- 
Calix 3 or 4 toothed. Corolla tubular, 5- 
¢left. Capsule crowned with the peristent ca- 
— 
_ ¥ Radical leaves entire, cordate crenate petiolate; stem- 
Teaves pinnate, somewhat toothed; uppermost leaves trifoliate, 
eval, acute; panicle scattered; corymbuli few-flowered. 
Ows. Stem 3 feet or more high, smooth, suleate, simple and — 
fistulons. Leaves smovth; foliola of the pinnate Hie fers 
y enlarging, oval, acuminate; flowers rather long, 
(near an inch,) pale pink, triandrous, with a short spur or gib- 
ty near the base; bibracteate, border 5-parted, lamina oval, 
obtuse, stamens exserted; seed elliptic, flat, on either side 
aoe = longitudinal strie near the centre; at length 
comose. 18 Species appears to be nearly allied to F. Pho. 
but distinct; in V. Phu the radical leaves fies oblong, and ge- 
nerally entire, the stem-leaves pinnatifid, the pinnula lancea- 
late, and very entire; the laminz of the corolla algo are crenu- 
q a . 
Tate; and the stigmata 3. (T. ; . 
"puis in South America.) ( he Seer ewes SEM 
