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VALERIANEjE. IV. VALERIANELLA. V. ASTREPHIA. 



Dwarf Lamb's-lettuce. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1826. PI. | 

 to 1 foot. 



18 V. SPHJEROCA'RPA (D. C. prod. 4. p. 628.) fruit globose, 

 umbilicate on one side, and convex and bicostate on the other ; 

 limb of calyx tridentate, one of the teeth longer than the others ; 

 bracteas spreading, lanceolate, acute, with scarious serrately cili- 

 ated edges ; leaves linear-lanceolate, rather scabrous : uppermost 

 ones pinnatifid at the base ; stem smooth. 0. H. Native of 

 Sicily, in pastures on the mountains. Fetlia sphserocarpa, Guss. 

 prod. 1. p. 28. pi. rar. p. 14. t. 4. f. 1. 



Round-fruited Lamb's-lettuce. PI. \ foot. 



19 V. CYMBOCA'RPA (Meyer, verz. pfl. p. 49.) fruit nearly 

 linear, with the 2 sterile cells curved, and the fertile cell rounded 

 on the back, and nearly equal ; crown of fruit campanulate, 3 

 and sometimes 4-toothed : the lateral tooth elongated, linear, 

 and straight, the rest usually obsolete. Q. H. Native of 

 Caucasus, near Swant, in arid places. 



Boat-fruited Lamb's-lettuce. PI. | foot. 



20 V. TRIGONOCA'RPA (D. C. prod. 4. p. 628.) fruit trigonal, 

 glabrous, broadly excavated in front, almost without a crown, 

 with callous angles : the 2 sterile cells of the fruit larger than 

 the fertile one ; bracteas oblong-linear, glabrous, spreading ; 

 flowers capitate: leaves quite entire : lower ones ovate-oblong, 

 upper ones oblong, ciliated at the base. 0. H. Native about 

 Constantinople, where it was collected by Castagne. 



Trigonal-fruited Lamb's-lettuce. PI. \ foot. 



* * Teeth of calycine limb hooked at the apex. 



21 V. HAMA'TA (Bast, in D. C. prod. 4. p. 628.) fruit ovoid, 

 villous outside, somewhat tetragonal, engraven in front : the 2 

 sterile cells about equal in breadth to the fertile one ; limb of 

 calyx spreading, broader than the fruit, quite glabrous inside, 

 and cleft into 6 lobes beyond the middle ; lobes awned, hooked 

 at the apex ; bracteas adpressed, oblong, ciliated ; flowers ra- 

 ther densely capitate ; upper leaves linear, entire or tripartite, 

 and are as \vell as the stem glabrous. 0. H. Native in the 

 region of the Mediterranean. D. C. coll. mem. t. 3. f. 7. V. 

 coronata, Guss. prod. 1. p. 25. V. coronata integrifolia, Rchb. 

 pi. crit. 1. p. 54. t. 66. f. 1. Col. ecphr. t. 209. Fedia coro- 

 nata of many authors. Flowers pink. 



Hooked Lamb's-lettuce. Fl. May, June. Clt. ? PI. | foot. 



22 V. CORONA V TA(D. C. prod. 4. p. 628.) fruit ovoid, villous, 

 somewhat tetragonal, engraven in front : the 2 sterile cells about 

 equal in breadth to the fertile one ; limb of calyx cup-shaped, 

 broader than the fruit, hairy inside, cleft into 6 lobes beyond the 

 middle : lobes awned, hooked at the apex ; bracteas adpressed, 

 ciliated; flowers densely capitate; superior leaves pinnatifid, 

 and are as well as the stem downy. 0. H. Native of the re- 

 gion of the Mediterranean. . V. coronata, D. C. fl. fr. no. 3333. 

 Dufr. val. 60. t. 3. f. 2. Fedia Sicula, .Guss. prod. 1. p. 25. 

 Fedia coronata, Rchb. : pi. crit. t. 66. f. ft et y. Vahl, enum. 2. 

 p. 20. Flowers pink. 



Var. ft, discoidea (D. C. prod. 4. p. 628.) limb of calyx irre- 

 gularly 7-1 2-lobed. . H. Native of the region of the Medi- 

 terranean. V. discoidea, var. Dufr. val. p. 59. t. 3. f. 3. D. C. 

 fl. fr. 5. p. 493. Fedia discoidea, Vahl, enum. 2. p. 21. Rchb. 

 pi. crit. t. 116. 



Crowned Lamb's -lettuce. Fl. April, June. Clt. 1731. PI. \ ft. 



* Limb of calyx inflated, closed by the inflexed calycine 

 teeth. 



23 V. VEsic/RiA(Mcench.meth.p. 497.) fruit villous, crowned; 

 limb of calyx bladdery, inflated, 6-toothed ; teeth conniving, 

 acute ; the 2 sterile cells of fruit a little smaller than the fertile 

 one, or nearly equal in size to it ; bracteas adpressed, ovate, 

 ciliated, shorter than the fruit ; leaves entire or toothed ; stem 

 rather villous. . H. Native in the region of the Mediterra- 



nean, in corn-fields. D. C. fl. fr. 4. no. 3332. coll. mem. t. 3. 

 f. 8. Dufr. val. p. 60. t. 3. f. 9. Fedia vesicaria, Vahl, enum. 

 2. p. 20. Rchb. pi. crit. 1. t. 70. Valeriana vesicaria, Willd. 

 Val. lociista, /3, vesicaria, Lin. Sibth. et Smith, fl. graec. t. 34. 

 Flowers lilac. 



Bladdery-ca\yxeA Lamb's-lettuce. Fl. April, June. Clt. 1739. 

 PI A to i foot. 



4. Solenocce'ltje (from <rw\)}v, solen, a tube, and /ooiXoc, koifos, 

 a hollow ; in reference to the sterile cells of the fruit). D. C, 

 prod. 4. p. 629. Fruit S-celled, broadly furrowed in front; the 

 fertile cell not cellularly gibbose on the back, and the 2 sterile 

 cells broader than the fertile one, and curved, and therefore the 

 transverse section is lunulate. 



* Lobes of calyx hooked a little. 



24 V. PLATY'LOBA (Dufr. val. 59. t. 3. f. 1.) fruit ovoid, vil- 

 lous outside, rather tetragonal, broadly furrowed in front, boat- 

 shaped ; limb of calyx spreading, broader than the fruit, rather 

 hairy inside, 6-lobed to the middle ; lobes ovate, each furnished 

 with a hooked mucrone ; bracteas adpressed, ciliated, oblong ; 

 flowers sub-capitate ; upper leaves toothed, and are as well as 

 the stem glabrous. 0. H. Native in the region of the Medi- 

 terranean. D. C. coll. mem. 3. f. 9. Fedia discoidea, Rchb. 

 pi. crit. 1. p. 54. t. 67. Fedia rotata, Rchb. 1. c. p. 93. Flowers 

 pink. 



Broad-lobetl Lamb's-lettuce. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1825. 

 PI. i foot. 



* * Limb of calyx erect. 



25 V. CARINA'TA (Lois. not. p. 149.) fruit oblong, longi- 

 tudinally boat-shaped, or chinky on one side, and cari- 

 nated ; the 2 sterile cells compressed, curved, about equal in 

 size to the fertile cell ; fruit crowned by the unidentate erect 

 limb of the calyx ; flowers sub-capitate ; bracteas oblong, 

 spreading, serrately ciliated ; leaves oblong, almost obovate, 

 quite entire. 0. H. Native of France, Germany, Tauria, 

 Sicily, cS:c. in corn-fields. Dufr. val. p. 56. t. 2. D. C. fl. fr. suppl. 

 492. coll. mem. t. 3. f. 10. Fedia carinata, Stev. mem. soc. mosc. 

 5. p. 346. Rcem.etSchuhes, syst. 1. p. 361. Rchb. pi. crit. t. 61. 

 Moris, oxon. sect. 7. t. 16. f. 31. Habit of V. olitbria. Stem 

 smooth, dichotomous. Flowers blue. 



A>efe/-fruited Lamb's-lettuce. Fl. April, June. Clt. 1819. 

 PI. | to foot. 



t Species not sufficiently known, 



26 V. CHENOPODIFOLIA (D. C. prod. 4. p. 629.) plant dicho- 

 tomous ; leaves ovate, acute, toothed below ; cymes naked, divari- 

 cate, dichotomous ; filaments long. . H. Native of Virginia. 

 F&dia chenopodifolia, Pursh, fl. amer. sept. 2. p. 727. 



Goose-foot-leaved Lamb's-lettuce. PI. 



Cult. The seeds of all the species only require to be sown in 

 the open ground in the early part of spring. All the species 

 answer very well for spring salad. 



V. ASTRE'PHIA (from a, priv., and arpttfiw, strepho, to turn ; 

 the calyx is not turned back at the time of flowering, as in Va- 

 leriana). Dufr. val. p. 50. exclusive of many species. D. C. 

 coll. mem. vii. prod. 4. p. 629. Hemesotria, Rafin. ann. gen. 

 sc. phys. 6. p. 88. Valeriana species, Ruiz et Pav. Smith. 

 Fedia species, Kunth. 



LIN. SYST. Tridndria, Monogynia. Tube of calyx very short, 

 somewhat 5-toothed or subcampanulate. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 5-lobed,' gibbous on one side at the base, and therefore furnished 

 with a kind of spur. Stamens 3. Style 3-cleft at the apex ; stig- 

 mas slender. Froit 2-celled, one of the cells alone fertile ; and 

 the other is sterile, and marked by a furrow in the middle, and is 

 therefore probably formed of 2 cells, having the partition between 

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