SPIKEXAED AXD YALERIAX. 



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to V. Wallicliii D.C. ; yet De Candolle expressed the opinion that 

 the two plants were of distinct species* ; but Lindley (Flor. Med., 

 472) in speaking of De Candolle's opinion expressed about another 



Valeriana Wallichii. 



Reduced from Plate iv. in De Candolle'i ' Memoir ' here quoted. 



species ( V. Dioscoridis) says, " . . 



not personally acquainted with the subject." 



* D. C, Mem., Val., p. 16. 



the learned botanist was 



