38 FEDIA. [class in. ORDKB I. 



Valeria'na denta'ta, Willd. English Botany, t. 1370. — Valerianel'la. 

 denta'ta, Lindley, Synopsis, p. 138. 



/3. Capsule clothed with spreading incurved rigid hairs, cup of the 

 calyx small. — F. miv'ta, British Flora, ed. 2, vol. i. p. 23. 



X. Capsule clothed with incurved rigid hairs, cup of the calyx large, 

 — F. eriocar'pa, British Flora, ed. 2, vol. i. p. 24. 



Root small. Stem smooth, about twelve inches high. Leaves nar- 

 row, the lower ones mostly entire, the upper toothed, cut, or pectinated 

 at the base. Flowers light blue or flesh-coloured, small, hracteas small, 

 narrow, few, and not arranged in the form of an involucre, as in the 

 last species. Fruit obpyriform, the back convex part is the perfect 

 cell, containing a single seed, terminated in a larger and broader tooth, 

 frequently at the base, on each side is a smaller one, the plane front 

 has two projecting ribs, the slirunk abortive cells, each terminating in 

 a small subulate tooth, and between them is also another tooth about 

 the same size. 



Habitat. — In corn-fields and cultivated grounds, but not common. 

 About Mansfield and Pleasly, Nottinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Corn- 

 wall, Essex, Edinburgh, and North Wales. — ^. Hedge-banks, near 

 Halesworth, Suffolk. — X. Ormeshead, Caernarvonshire. 



Annual; flowering during the summer months. 



4. F. Auric' ula,GdLVii\.. (Fig. 53.) sharp-fruited Corn-Salad. Flowers 

 corymbose, with a sessile flower in the division of the flower-stalks ; 

 capsule ovate, acuminate, somewhat inflated, slightly grooved in 

 front, smooth, crowned with the single entire tooth of the calyx. 



Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 24. — Valerianel'la Auricula, De 

 Candolle, Flore Francois, Supplement, p. 492. 



Plant from twelve to eighteen inches high, nearly smooth. Sti-m 

 ribbed, repeatedly forked above, forming a spreading corymbiferous 

 inflorescence, bearing in the axis of the divisions a solitary sessile flower. 

 Flowers numerous, small, pale blue. Fruit ovate, somewhat inflated, 

 smooth, beautifully dotted, having three narrow^ ribs, and slightly 

 grooved in front, crowned with a single entire, obtuse, concave tooth of 

 the limb of the calyx, and sometimes two others, which are very small, 

 generally obsolete. Leaves opposite, the lower entire spatulate, the 

 upper toothed or pectniated at the base. 



Habitat. — Lindulph, Cornwall — Rev. li. T. Brcc ; Hastings—/)/-. 

 Bromfleld. 



Annual ; flowering in June and July. 



Specimens and seeds of this newly discovered plant (as a native of 

 this country) were also last autumn obligingly connnunicated by Mr 

 BoriTcr, since wliich the seeds have been sown in a sheltered situation 

 in the Sheflicld Botanic Garden, and from plants thus produced our 

 drawing was made. The fruit, as Dr. Hooker observes, is certainly 

 considerably difl'event from F, dentaUt. 



