352 VALERIANE.1;. 



11. a. Californicum, H. & A. Bot. Beech. 349 (1840). Herbaceous 

 from slender creeping rootsfcocks, in low tufts, or diffuse with slender 

 stems a foot long, hispid or hirsute, rarely glabrate in age : leaves thinnish, 

 ovate or oval, apiculate-acuminate, }i~% in. long, margins and midrib 

 hispid-ciliolate: fr. blackish, glabrous, on recurved pedicels. — Common 

 in shady places, of the Coast Range chiefly. 



12. G. Nuttallii, Gray, PI. Wright, i. 80 (1852): G. sufmticosum, 

 Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. ii. 21 (1841), not H. & A. (1840). Suffrutescent, tall 

 and climbing, often 3-4 ft. high, mostly glabrous, except the minutely 

 aculeolate-hispidulous angles of stems and margins of leaves, these also 

 sometimes naked: leaves small, oval to linear-oblong, mucronate, 

 mucronulate, or obtuse: fr. smooth and glabrous, purple. — In thickets of 

 the Coast Range. 



13. Gr. Bolaiideri, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 350 (1868): G. marqari- 

 coccum, Gray, 1. c. xiii. 371. Less shrubby, 1—2 ft. high, glabrous, some- 

 times pubescent; angles of stem hardly scabrous: leaves oblong-linear 

 or lanceolate, acutish, i.^' in. long, thickish, with margins and midrib 

 naked or sparsely hispidulous: corolla dull purplish: berry large, 

 smooth, white.— On the western slope of the Sierra, from the Yosemite 

 northward, and in Humboldt Co. 



14. Gr. Aiulrewsii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 537 (1865). Small and 

 densely matted; nearly or quite glabrous, the herbage bright green and 

 shining: leaves crowded, acerose-subulate, either naked or sparsely 

 spinulose-ciliate, 2—4 lines long: fl. dioecious, the sterile in few-flowered 

 terminal cymes; fertile solitary, subtended by a whorl of leaves which 

 are longer than the deflexed fruiting pedicel: berry smooth, blackish. — 

 Dry summits of the Coast Ranges, from Lake Co. southward. 



Obder lxii. VALERIANE/E. 



Dufresne, Histoire Naturelle et Medicale de la Famille des Valerian6es 

 (1811). Valerjanace^, Lindl. Synops. 137 (1829). 



Herbs with opposite leaves, no stipules, and mostly complete flowers, 

 in a cymose or thyrsoid inflorescence. Calyx-tube coherent with the 

 ovary; limb either obsolete, or composed of teeth which develop as a 

 pappus or feathery crown upon the fruit. Corolla more or less irregular; 

 the limb bilabiate, the lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens 1—3, epipetalous. 

 Filaments and style filiform; stigma undivided and truncate, or minutely 

 3-cleft. Fruit an achene; seed pendulous.— A small family, of some 

 culinary and medicinal value; early referred to Umbelliferge, to which 

 the plants bear some considerable analogy. 



