Campanales.J 



VALERIANACE.E. 



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Order CCLXX. VALERIANACE^.— Valerianworts. 



Valerianea?, DC. Fl. Fr. ed. 3. v. 4. p. 232. (1815) ; nufr. Valer. Monogr. 56. (1811) ; DC. Prodr. 4. 

 623. (1830) ; Roylc's Illustrations, 241. (1835) ; Endl. Gen. cxviii. ; Meisn. p. 173; Woods in Linn. 

 Trans. 17. 421. 



Diagnosis. — Campanal Exogem, with a I -celled ovary , an imbricated corolla, free antkas, 

 pendulous ovide, and no alhunun. 



Annual or perennial herbs, occasionally twining, and usually either strong-scented or 

 aromatic. Leaves collected in rosettes at the root, or distributed upon the stem, 



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opposite, entire, or variously di- 

 vided in a pinnate way. Flowers 

 sometimes (^ ? by abortion, with 

 a centrifugal expansion ; in Tri- 

 plostegia furnished with an invo- 

 lucre. Calyx superior ; the linib 

 either membranous, or resembling 

 feathery pappus. Corolla mono- 

 petalous, tubular, msertcd uito the 

 top of the ovary, with from W t(» 

 G lobes, cither regular or irregular, 

 sometimes calcai-ate at the base. 

 Stamens from 1 to 5, inserted 

 into the tube of the corolla, and alternate with its lobes. Ovary inferior, with 1 cell, 



Fig. CCCCLXIX.— Centranthus ruber. 1. a coroUa ; 2. section of ovary; 3. ripe fruit, with its 

 pappus ; 4. cross section of a seed. 



