48 VALERIANACE^. Valeriana. 



3. V. ■paudfiora (Michx.) : glabrous ; stem simple, slender, often decum- 

 bent at the base and surculose ; radical leaves ou slender petioles, ovate, 

 cordate, acuminate, crenate-toothed, sometimes ternately divided, with 

 the lateral divisions small ; cauline leaves pinnately 3-7-divided ; the 

 divisions ovate or oblong-ovate, often periolulate, acute or acuminate, mostly- 

 serrate ; cymules few-flowered, paniculate ; tube of the corolla long and 

 slender' with a minute gibbosity at the base ; fruit elliptical, flat, minutely 

 pubescent along the middle, marked on one side with 3 closely approximate, 

 on the other with 3 distant nerves.— iVizc/ix. / fl. I. p. 18 ; Null.! gen. I. p. 

 20 ; DC. frodr. 4. p. 638. 



Alon^ the Alleghany Mountains, from Virginia ! to Tennessee ! and m 

 the We'stern States ! June-July.— Stem 1-3 feet high. Leaves thin and 

 membranaceous. Corolla pale pink, 8 lines to near an inch in length. 



4. V. capitata {WiWA.): glabrous, or pubescent at the nodes of the erect 

 simple stem ; radical and lower cauline leaves on slender petioles, either 

 simple (and ovate or broadly oval, obtuse), or pinnately 3-5-divided ; the di- 

 visions broadly oval, sinuate-toothed, repand-crenulate, or often entire, the 

 terminal one largest ; the upper cauline leaves somewhat sessile, undivided 

 or often ternately parted ; the divisions (or leaves) oblong or ovate-oblong, 

 mostly acute, serrate-toothed or entire; cyme glomerate or often capitate; 

 bracts filiform-linear, elongated ; corolla gibbous on one side, at first short ; 

 the tube at length elongated; fruit ovate-oblong, compressed, very glabrous, 

 2-3-nerved on one sid^e, 1-nerved on the other. — " Willd. herb. ; Ram. <y 

 Sclndt. mant. 1. p. 257 (under V. sisymbrii folia, by a typographical error)''; 

 Cham. Sf Schlecht. in Linncea, 3- f. 130; DC. prodr. 4. p. 637 ; Hook. S; 

 Am. hot. Beechey,p. 125 ,• Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 292. 



/3. Hookeri: plant larger; cyme more or less expanded. — V. pauciflora. 

 Hook.! I. c. t. 101, not of Michx. V. Hookeri, Nutt. mss. V. Sitchensis, 

 Bongard,in mem. acad. St. Petersb. {ser. 6) 2. p. 145.? 



Kotzebue's Sound, Chamisso Sf EschschoUz, Lay 8^ Collie .' {Beechey's Toy.) 

 Norfolk Sound, Eschscholtz f Arctic coast, Dr. Richardson ! j3. Moist rocks 

 and islands of the Oregon, Douglas, Dr. Scolder ! Woods in the Rocky 

 Mountains about lat. 56°, Drummond.—Vlaui 1-3 feet high. Leaves or 

 seo-ments one to nearly 3 inches long, membranaceous, veiny, obtuse or 

 rather acute at each end. Peduncles slightly hairy. Corolla whitish or 

 rose-color, at first about the length of the bracts, in size equal to those 

 of the nearly allied V. tripteris of Europe, gibbous about to the same degree 

 and in the same manner; but the tube at length elongates and becomes 

 slender, and the gibbosity nearly disappears: the fully developed corolla 

 is not more than half the "length of that of V. pauciflora. — Like V. tripteris, 

 this species varies with the leaves or divisions toothed or entire : we have 

 never seen them cordate, nor does Hooker represent them thus. Our speci- 

 men collected by Eschscholtz, as well as one from Kotzebue's Sound ga- 

 thered in Capt. Beechey's Voyage and given to us by Dr. Arnott, might as 

 well be referred to ihe var. /?., which we are confident is only a more luxuri- 

 ant state of the northern plant. It is also a native of Kamtschatka &c. 

 Judt^ina from the description, we should have referred the V. Sitchensis, 

 Bonsa'^rd, without hesitaiion, to our var. /3. ; but it is said to ditTer from V. 

 catjitata, ' as well in the form of the leaves as in its whole habit.' The root 

 of the S'itcha plant is also said to have a stronger odor than that of V. offici- 

 naUs, and to be employed medicinally by the natives of the island. 



* * * Stem erect, : root fusiform , fleshy : leaves soviewhat fleshy. 



5. V. edidis (Nutt. mss.): stem very glabrous; leaves all somewhat 

 fleshy, pubescent, petioled ; the radical ones linear-lanceolate, entire, or 1-2- 

 pinnately paited, with the lobes divaricate ; the cauline deeply pinuatifid, 



