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** Corolla gibbous at the base. Stam. 3. (I'aleriana, D. C.) 



2. V. off clnalis (great wild Valerian) , leaves all pinnated, leaf- 

 lets lanceolate nearly uniform serrated. Lighlf. p. 85. E.B. 

 t. 698. 



HAB. Ditches and marshy places, and in mountainous pastures, fre- 

 quent. Fl. July. I/ . 



Stems 3 4 feet high, striated. Lower leaves very long, with many 

 leaflets. Flowers pale flesh-colour. The root is warm and aroma- 

 tic and much used in medicine. 



3. V. pyrenaica (heart-leaved Valerian), leaves dentato-serrate 

 heart-shaped petiolate, upper ones with one or two pair ot 

 small lanceolate leaflets. E. B. t. 1591. DOJI'S Herb. Brit, 

 fasc. ?i. 77. 



HAB. Collington woods, Edinb., G. Don. Woods, Daldowie, Glasg., 

 Dr. Brown. Abercorn woods, Edinb., Maugh. Ditches in the 

 west of Kinross-shire, as at Blair Adam, Cliesh, and near Dupplin, 

 Mr.Arnott. Fl. July. "}/ . 



Three or four feet high j habit of V. officinalis, but very different in 

 its leaves. Flowers pale rose-coloured. I can hardly satisfy myself 

 that this species, any more than F.rubra, is really indigenous 

 to Scotland. No Flora of the continent, except that of the Py- 

 renees, can boast of it, but it has been long cultivated in gardens 

 throughout Britain. 



4. V.dioica (small marsh Valerian], flowers dioecious, radical- 

 leaves spathulato-ovate undivided, stem-leaves pinnatifid. 

 Light/, p. 85. E.B. t. 628. 



HAB. Marshy meadows, frequent, Light/. Bogs to the westward of 

 Borthwick, Mr. Neill and Maughan. Pentland Hills, Mr. Arnott. 

 Linlithgow, Miss Baird. Fl. June. If. . 



Stem erect, from 6 to 8 inches high. Leaves more or less serrated, 

 upper lobe large. Flowers very pale rose-coloured. 



2. FEDIA. 



1. F. olitoria (Com- salad or Lamb's Lettuce], fruit tridentate 

 ovato-rotundate inflated glabrous, flowers capitate. Light/, 

 p. 85, and E. B. *. 811 (Valeriana Locusta). 



HAB. Corn-fields and banks. Fl. May, June. 0. 

 Stem sometimes a foot high, dichotomous, and, as well as the leaves, 

 . more or less scabrous. Radical leaves spathulate, cauline ones ob- 

 longo-obovate, rarely with the upper ones a little toothed. Flowers 

 pale blue, in terminal heads, at the base of which are oblong bracteas 

 forming a kind of involucrum. 



2. F. dentata (narrow -fruited Corn-salad)) fruit sub-tridentate 

 obpyriform glabrous, flowers corymbose with a single flower 

 between the upper divisions of the stems. E. B. t. 1370 

 (Vol. dentata). 



HAB. Hedge-banks and fields. Near Crossgate-toll, 3 m. S. of Mus- 

 selburgh, Maugh. Fields about Edinb., Mr. Greville. Water of 

 Leith, and field near Kirkcaldv, Mr. S. Stewart. Fl. June, July. , 



