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22. GELSEMIUM, Jus. YELLOW JEssAMINE. 
Flowers dimorphous. Calyx 5-parted, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, 5- 
lobed; the lobes rounded, emarginate, spreading, quincuncial in the bud, the 
sinuses impressed. Stamens 5, inserted near the base of the corolla: anthers 
oblong-sagittate, extrorse. Styles united, filiform, partly persistent. Stigmas 
4, linear, spreading. Capsule oblong, compressed, 2-celled, opening septicidally 
to the middle, and loculicidally at the apex, each valve tipped with the persistent 
base of the styles. Seeds several, oval, flat, winged, obliquely imbricated in two 
tows. — A smooth woody vine, with opposite evergreen leaves, minute stipules, 
and large yellow fragrant flowers, in axillary bracted and cluster-like racemes. 
1. G. sempervirens, Ait. — Margins of swamps, and river-banks, Flor- 
ida to North Carolina, and westward. March and April. — Stem twining, pur- 
plish. Leaves lanceolate or ovate, acute or subcordate at the base, short-petioled. 
Racemes few-flowered. Pedicels scaly. Corolla 1! - 13! long. 
OrDER 71. VALERIANACE/E. (VALERIAN FAMILY.) 
Herbs with opposite exstipulate leaves, and cymose flowers. — Calyx- 
tube adherent to the ovary. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, mostly 5- 
lobed, imbricated in the bud. Stamens distinct, fewer than the corolla- 
lobes, and inserted into its tube. Ovary 3-celled, two of which are empty, 
the third containing a single suspended anatropous ovule. Style slender. 
Stigmas 1-3. Fruit 1- 3-celled, 1-seeded. :Albumen none. 
l VALERIANA, Tourn VALERIAN. 
Limb of the calyx composed of several plumose bristles, at first incurved, 
afterward spreading. Corolla gibbous at the base, 5-lobed. Stamens 3. Fruit 
l-celled, 1-seeded. — Perennials. ! 
L V. scandens, L. Smooth; stem climbing ; leaves on slender petioles, 
ternately divided ; leaflets ovate, entire ; cymes paniculate, diffuse, axillary and 
terminal ; corolla very short.— East Florida. ad 
?. V. pauciflora, Michx, Smooth; stem (19-39) erect, or decumbent 
at the base, simple; leaves membranaceous, toothed or serrate, the radical ones - 
Mostly entire, ovate or cordate, long-petioled, the others pinnately 3 — 7-lobed ; 
"ymes terminal, in a close panicle ; tube of the pale pink corolla long and slen- 
der. — Mountains of Tennessee, and northward. June and July. 
2. FEDIA, Monch. Laws-LrrTUCE. WO. 
Calyx-limb toothed or obsolete. Corolla fannel-shaped, 5-lobed. Stamens 3. — 
(Puit 3-elled, two of the cells empty and sometimes confluent into one, the other 
And white or purplish flowers in crowded bracted cymes. 
