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** Corolla gibbous at the base. Statu. 3. {Valeriana, D. C.) 



2. V. officinalis {great wild Falerian)^ leaves all pinnated, leaf- 

 lets lanceolate nearly uniform serrated. IJghtj. p. 85. E. B. 

 t. 698. 



Hab. Ditches and marshy places, and in mountainous pastures, fre- 

 quent. Fi. July. "2/ . 



Stems 3 — 4 feet high, striated. Lower leaves very long, with many 

 leaflets. Flowers pale flesh-colour. The root is warm and aroma- 

 tic and much used in medicine. 



3. Y.pyrenaica {heart-leaved Valerian), leaves dentato-serrate 

 heart-shaped petiolate, upper ones with one or two pair oi 

 small lanceolate leaflets. E. B. t. 1591. Dons Herb. Brit, 

 fasc. V.17 . 



Hab. CoUington woods, Edinb., G. Don. Woods, Daldowie, Glasg., 

 Dr.Broirn. Abercorn v\'Oods, Edinb., Maiigti. Ditches in the 

 west of Kinross-shire, as at Blair y\dam, ('liesh, and near Dupplin, 

 Mr.Arnott. F/. July. % . 



Three or four feet high; habit of J'. officinalis, but very ditterent in 

 its leaves. Flowers pale rose-coloured. I can hardly satisfy myself 

 that this species, any more than V. rubra, is really indigenovis 

 to Scotland. No Flora of the continent, except that of the Py- 

 renees, can boast of it, but it has been long cultivated in gardens 

 throughout Britain. 



4. W.dioica {small marsh Valerian), flowers dioecious, radical- 

 leaves spathulato-ovate undivided, stem-leaves pinnatifid. 

 Lighif. p. 85. E.B. /. 628. 



Hab. Marshy meadows, frequent, Lightf. Bogs to the westward of 

 Borthwick, Mr. Neill and Maughan. Pentland Hills, Mr. Arnott. 

 Linlithgow, Miss Baird. Fl. June. 1/ . 



Stem erect, from 6 to S inches high. Leaves more or less serrated, 

 upper lobe large. Flowers very pale rose-coloured. 



2. FEDIA. 



1. F. olitoria {Corn-salad or Lamb's Eeitnce), fruit tridentate 

 ovato-rotundate inflated glabrous, flowers capitate. Lightf. 

 p. 85, and E. B. t. 811 {Valeriana Locusta). 



Hab. Corn-fields and banks. Fl. May, June. 0. 



Stem sometimes a foot high, dichotomous, and, as well as the leaves, 

 more or less scabrous. Radical leaves spathulate, cauline ones ob- 

 longo-obovate, rarely with the upper ones a little toothed. Flowers 

 pale blue, in terminal heads, at the base of which are oblong bracteas 

 forming a kind of involucrum. 



2. F. dentata {narrow-fruited Corn-salad), fruit sub-tridentate 

 obpyriform glabrous, flowers corymbose with a single flower 

 between the upper divisions of the stems. E.B. /. 1370 

 {Val. dentata). 



Hab. Hedge-banks and fields. Near Crossgate-toll, 3 m. S. of Mus- 

 selburgh, Maugh. Fields about Edinb., Mr. Greville. Water of 

 Leith, and field near Kirkcaldy, Mr. S. Stewart. Fl. June, July. © . 



