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VALERIANACEiE. 



with the habit of Fedia ; the stem simple or sparingly branched. Leaves 

 entire, oblong or obovate-spatulate, sessile. Flowers rose-color, aggregated 

 in verticillate glomerules, or capitate. Bracts subulate, verticillate and in- 

 volucellate, united at the base. 



The flowers are, we believe, all perfect and similar; not monoecious, as stated by 

 De Candolle : the bracts are not multifid, but crowded and verticillate. 



1. P. congesta (DC.) : corolla manifestly bilabiate; the spur (or rather its 

 free portion) small, much shorter than the tube ; flowers in an oval or oblong 

 head, or often in verticillate (approximate or rather distant) glomerules.- 

 DC! I.e.; Hook. I fl. Bar.-Am. 1. p. 291. P. congesta & P. capitata, 

 Nutt. mss. Valerianella congesta, Lindl. ! bat. reg. t. 1095. V. parvi- 

 flora, Dougl. ined. (var. with smaller flowers and narrower leaves. Hook.) 



Banks of streams and moist rocks, along the Oregon, from the sea-shore to 

 the Wahlamet, Douglas ! Dr. Scouler ! Nutfall, Mr. Tolmie ! May-June. 

 —Plant ftom 4 inches to 2^ feet hi|h.^ usu^ally 3^or 4 lines long. 



rathefits'"frerpOTUon)'fliil! 

 " capitate.— P. congesta (i. Hook. SfAm.! hot. Becchey, suppl. p- 349, excl. 



the gibbous portion of the corolla, which we should prefer to call an adnate 

 spur, is coherent with the proper (very slender) tube f[uhe to the base of the 

 latter, whence it is produced into a rather slender, but short horn. In the 

 Californian species, on the contrary, the spur is free from at least the lower 



3. FEDIA. Mcench ; Gartn. fr. t. 86 (excl. spec.) ; J. Woods, in Linn, 

 trans. 17. p. 421, t. 21. 

 Fedia & Valerianella, Man^h, DC. tf-c. 

 Limb of the calyx toothed and persistent, or obsolete. Tube of the corolla 

 (sometimes gibbous) not spurred; the limb 5-lobed, regular, or slightly irregu- 

 lar. Stamens 2 or 3. Stigma entire, or 2-3-lobed. Fruit 3-celled ; two of 



nearly glabrous herbs, more or less dichotomous above. Leave* oblong or 

 Hnear, sessile, entire, or often to<jtlied or incised near the base. Flowers in 

 glomerate or crowded cymules, white, rose-color, or purple. Bracts opposite, 

 or somewhat involucellate.— Corn-^^aZai/. 



lie- havi'— ' 

 stigmas of the latter. ' 



_ and slender ; the limb slightly irregular : sta- 

 ..c.ns 3 ; stigma 3-clefl : fruit flattened fare and aft, with a somewhat ere- 

 scent-shaped transverse section ; the empty cells membranaceous, inflated, 

 separated and diverging, larger than the fertile ce«.— Siphonella. 



