286 VALEFUAXACE^E. KELLOGGIA. 



branches not rarely opposite: corolla dull purple; fruit white, smooth 

 juicy, drying black. Dry grounds, southern Oregon and western Cali- 

 fornia. 



G. Andrews!! Gray Proc. Amer. -Acad vi, 538. Depressed: cespitose, 

 and with slender creeping rootstocks : glabrous or nearly so : the matted 

 tufts 3-10 inches high: leaves very crowded, acerose-subulate, usually 

 shining, naked or sparsely spinulose-ciliate, 2-6 lines 1 ng: flowers dioe- 

 cious, staminate slender-pedicelled, in few-flowered terminal cymes; pis- 

 tillate solitary, subtended by a whorl of leaves that are longer than the at 

 length deflexed peduncle: fruit dark-colored, smooth. Dry hills, south- 

 ern Oregon and California 



2 KELLOGGIA Torr. Bot. Wilkes 332, t. 6. 



Herbs with opposite leaves and loosely cymose-panicled, small 

 flowers. Flowers commonly 4-merous ; calyx-tube obovoid, 

 somewhat flattened laterally ; teeth 4, subulate persistent. Co- 

 rolla funnelform, the lobes naked, valvate in bud. Stamens as 

 many as lobes of the corolla, and inserted on its tube, more or 

 less exserted : filaments flattened ; anthers oblong-linear, attached 

 above the base. Styles filiform, exserted : stigmas 2. Ovary 2- 

 celled, ovules erect from the base, anatropous. Fruit dry and 

 coriaceous, separating at maturity into 2 closed carpels which 

 are conformed an.l adherent to the seed, somewhat reniform in 

 cross section. Embryo comparatively large in fleshy albumen 



K. galioides Torr. Bot. Wilkes 332 t 6. Glabrous or minutely pubes- 

 cent; stems slender, 4-12 inches high : leaves lanceolate, sessile, 1-2 

 inches long, the stipules small and scarious : flowers small, in a loose 

 dichotomous cyme, the long pedicels thickened above and articulated with 

 the flower; corolla funnelform, white or pinkish, 3-5 lines long, pubescent 

 on the outside: fruit small, oblong, coriaceous, uncinate-hispid. In shady 

 places Washington to California. 



ORDER XLIX. VALERIANACE^E Batsck Tab. Aftin. 227. 



Herbs, rarely shrubby, with opposite, simple or divided 

 leaves without stipules and usually small flowers in dichoto- 

 mous cymes that are often glomerate when young, frequently 

 corymbose or paniculate. Tube of the calyx adherent to the 

 ovary: the limb various, sometimes forming a plumous pappus, 

 occasionally obsolete. Corolla tubular furmelform or obcon- 

 ical, often gibbose anteriorly or spurred, the limb mostly 5- 

 lobed and more or less irregular, imbricate in bud. Stamens 

 distinct, inserted into the corolla; anthers introrse. Ovary 

 mostly 3-celled, 2 of the cells empty , the other containing a 

 single suspended ovule: style filiform stigmas 2-3, or united 

 into one. Fruit membranaceous or coriaceous, indehiscent; 

 1-celled or frequently 3 celled with 2 of the cells empty, some- 

 times 2-celled by the confluence of the empty cells, 1-seeded. 

 Seeds anatropous with a membranaceous testa and no albumen. 



* Limb of the calyx inrolled and concealed in flower, evolute and 

 pappus-like in fruit. 



