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TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



# Flowers superior. 

 17. VALERIANA. Valerian. 



Linn. Gen .22. Juss. 195. Fl. Br. 37. Tourn. t. 52. Lam. t. 24- 

 /. J, 2. G^r<7i. *. 86. 



Nat. Ord. Aggregate. Linn. 48. Dipsacece. Juss. 56. 

 Valerianecc. DeCand. 64. Juss. Ann. du Mus. n. 18 the 

 same. 



Car/, a slight border, subsequently expanding into a crown 

 for the seed. Cor. of 1 tubular petal, with a protuberance 

 or spur on one side at the base, containing honey ; limb 

 in 5 obtuse, rather unequal, segments. Filam. 3, or fewer, 

 awl-shaped, erect, borne by the corolla, and as long as the 

 limb. Anth. oblong. Germ, inferior, elliptic-oblong, of 1 

 cell. Style thread-shaped, the length of the stamens. Stigma 

 mostly simple. Seed ovate-oblong, compressed, with 3 

 ribs at one side, and one at the other, crowned with many 

 spreading, feathery rays, gradually unrolled. 



Perennial herbs, with aromatic or fetid roots. Stem round. 

 Leaves opposite, simple, pinnatifid, or pinnate, smooth. 

 Fl. corymbose, spiked, terminal, reddish. The seed is 

 truly naked, having only a membranous film besides its 

 outer skin, or testa. 



1. V. rubra. Red Valerian. 



Flowers with one stamen, and a long spur. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, nearly entire. 



V. rubra. Linn. Sp. PI. 44. Willd. v. 1 . 175. Vahl Enum. v.2.\. 

 Fl. Br. 37. Engl. Bot. w- 22. *. 1531. Hook. Scot. 14. Don 

 H. Br. 76. Lam.f. 2. Dod. Pempt. 35 1./. 



V. rubra Dodonsei. Ger. Em. 678. f. 



V. n. 213 a. Hall. Hist. v.\. 93. 



V. marina. Riv. Monop. lrr. t. 3.f. 2. 



V. marina latifolia major. Moris, v. 3. 102. sect. 7. t.\4.f. 15. 



Phu peregrinum. Corner. Epit. 24. /. 



On chalk cliffs and old walls. 



In the chalk-pits of Kent, certainly wild. 



Perennial. June — September. 



One to two feet high, leafy, very smooth, and rather glaucous. 

 Lower leaves somewhat stalked, lanceolate, entire j upper ses- 

 sile, more ovate, occasionally toothed at the broadest part. Ft, 

 of an elegant rose-colour, scentless, numerous, erect, in a dense 

 corymbose head, of forked, unilateral spikes. 



