TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Valeriana. 43 



2. V. dioica. Small Marsh Valerian. 



Flowers with three stamens, dioecious. Stem-leaves pinna- 

 tifid ; radical ones ovate. 



V. dioica. Linn. Sp. PL 44. Willd. v. 1. 176. VahlEnum. v. 2. 2. 



FL Br. 37. Engl. Bot. v. 9. t. 628. Curt. Lond. fasc. 4. t. 3. 



Hook. Scot. 15. FL Dan. t. 687. Bull. Fr. t. 3 1 1 . Poi*. % Turp. 



Par.tAX. 

 V. n. 208. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 90. 

 V. sylvestris minor, 8c V. sylvestris, seu palustris, minor altera. 



flaii Syn. 200. 

 V. minor. Ger. Em. 1075./. 



V. minor, et V. flore exiguo. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 2. 

 Phu minimum. Matth. Valgr. v. 1.38./. Camer. Epit. 23. /. 



In moist boggy meadows frequent. 



Perennial. June. 



Boot creeping. Stem simple, 6 or 8 inches higli ; the fertile plant 

 most robust. Leaves and their segments mostly entire j occa- 

 sionally serrated. FL flesh-coloured. Spur very short and blunt. 

 Seed-crown red, less feathery. Stam. and pist. sometimes in the 

 same flower, but scarcely both perfect. 



3. V. officinalis. Great Wild Valerian. 



Stamens three. Leaves all pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, nearly 

 uniform. 



V. officinalis. Linn. Sp. PL 45. Willd.vA.Ml . VahlEnum. v. 2. 6. 



FL Br. 38. Engl. Bot. v. 10. t. 698. Curt. Lond. fasc. 6. t. 3. 



Hook. Scot. 15. Woodv. t. 96. FL Dan. t. 570. 

 V. n.210. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 91. 



V. sylvestris major. Raii Syn. 200. Ger. Em. 1075./. 

 Valeriana. fftu. Monop. Irr. t. 1. 

 Phu. Column. Phytob. 1 13. *. 114. 

 Ph. parvum. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 37./. 

 Ph. minus. Camer. Epit. 22. /. 

 Ph. germanicum. Fuchs. Hist. 857./. 



/3. Valeriana sylvestris major montana. Bauh. Pin. 164. Dill, in 



Raii Syn. 200. 

 V. foliis angustioribus. Riv. Monop. Irr. t.2.f. 1. 



In marshes, and about the banks of pools and rivers. 



/3. In dry mountainous woods and pastures. 



Perennial. June. 



Root tuberous, somewhat creeping, fetid ; in (3 more aromatic, 

 and preferred for medical use. Stem about 4 feet high, furrowed: 

 Leaflets coarsely serrated j those of the radical leaves broadest, 

 approaching to ovate ; but there is no remarkably large termi- 

 nal leaflet j those of the stem in /3 are very narrow, and often 



