TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Fedia. 45 



1. F. olitoria. Common Corn-sallad, or Lamb's 

 Lettuce. 



Leaves linear-tongue-shaped, blunt. Flowers capitate. Cap- 

 sule inflated, two-lobed. 



F. olitoria. VahlEniim.v.2. 19. Hook.Scot.lb. Schrad. Germ.v.\.9b. 



Valeriana olitoria. Willd. v. 1. 182. 



V.Locusta. Linn. Sp. PI. 47, a. FLBr.39. Engl.Bot.v.\2.t.8\\. 

 Curt. Lond.fasc.b. t. 4. Mart. Rust. t. 24. 



Valerianella arvensis praeeox humilis, semine compresso. Bali Syn, 

 201. Moris, sect. 7 . t.\6.f. 36. 



V. n.214. Hall. Hist. v. 1.94. 



Lactuca agnina. Ger. Em. 310./. 1,2. 



Locusta major, et minor. Biv. Monop. Irr. t. 6. 



In corn-fields, and light cultivated ground. 



Annual. April — June. 



Stem forked twice or thrice, furrowed, smooth, except a few de- 

 flexed hairs on the ribs just below each fork. Lower leaves spa- 

 tulate, stalked j upper sessile, sometimes jagged. Fl. pale blue, 

 in round heads ; none at the forks of the stem. Caps, smooth, 

 with a minute crown, of 3 indexed teeth, one of them much the 

 largest. The leaves vary in form and division. 



2. F. dentata. Oval-fruited Corn-sallad. 



Leaves linear-tongue-shaped. Flowers solitary in the forks 

 of the stem. Capsule ovate, ribbed. Crown erect. 



F.dentata. VahlEnum. v. 2. 20. Hook.Scot.lb. Schrad. Germ.96. 

 Valeriana dentata. Willd. v. I. 183. Ehrh. Herb. 122. Fl.Br.Y38b. 



Engl. Bot.v. 20. *. 1370. 

 V. Locusta olitoria. Fl. Dan. t. 738. 

 Valerianella n. 215. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 94. 



In corn-fields. 



Found in Cornwall and Essex, by Mr. Edw. Forster j on Harleton 

 hill, Cambridgeshire, by the Rev. Mr. Holme. 



About Edinburgh. Hooker. 



Annual. June, July. 



Leaves narrower than in the foregoing. Fl. smaller, purplish, al- 

 most all from the forks of the smooth stem. Caps, not inflated, 

 nor lobed. Crown of 3, scarcely more erect, unequal teeth, 

 one much the largest. 



Columna's synonym, Ecphr. t.209.f.2, appears doubtful, as the 

 seed of our plant is neither pierced nor umbilicated ; that of 

 Rivinus evidently belongs to F. olitoria. 



Fedia, as derived from Fedus, an ancient word, synonymous with 

 Hcedus, a kid, is not unsuitable to this genus. Valerianella, 

 being a compound, as well as a diminutive, of an established 

 name, is inadmissible. 



