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. fVilld. r. 1 . 1 76. Vahl Enum. v. 2. 2. 



Fl. Br. 2>7. Engl. Bot. v. 9. t. 628. Curt. Lond. fasc. 4. t. 3. 



Hook. Scot. 15. Fl. Dan. t. 687. Bull. Fr. ^ 31 1. Poit. ^ Turp. 



Par. f. 41. 

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

 V. sylvestris minor, & V. sylvestris, seu palustris, minor altera. 



Rail Sijn. 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. f. 



In moist boggy meadows frequent. 



Perennial. June. 



Root creeping. Stem simple, 6 or 8 inches high • the fertile plant 

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

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

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

 same^oit'er, but scarcely both perfect. 



3. V. officinalis. Great Wild Valerian. 



Stamens three. Leaves all piiui ate; leaflets lanceolate, nearly 

 uniform. 



V. officinalis. Linn. Sp. PI. 45. Willd. v. 1 . 177. Vahl Enum. v. 2. 6. 



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



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

 V. n. 210. Halt Hist. v.\.9\. 



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

 Valeriana. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 1. 

 Phu. Column. Phytob. 1 13. t. 114. 

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

 Ph. minus. Camer. Epit. 22. f. 

 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. 



J?oo< tuberous, somewhat creeping, fetid 3 in /3 more aromatic, 

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

 Leajiets coarsely serrated 5 those of the radical leaves broadest, 

 approaching to ovate 5 but there is no remarkably large termi- 

 nal leaflet; thoj^e of the stem in /3 are very narrow, and often 



