676 



VALERIANEjE. IX. VALERIANA. 



lobes or leaflets oblong or acuminated, and the terminal one 

 broad-ovate or roundish, cordate, serrated ; corymbs ample ; 

 truit glabrous. !. H. Native of the Pyrenees, in woods; and 

 of Scotland, in woods, particularly about Edinburgh and Glas- 

 gow. D. C. fl. fr. no. 3317. Sowerb. engl. bot. t. 1591. 

 Pluk. phyt. t. 232. f. 1. V. Canadensis, Riv. mon. t. 6. 

 Buxb. cent. 2. p. 19. t. 11. A showy pale green herb, with 

 large leaves. Flowers pale red, disposed in ample corymbs. 

 There is also a white flowered variety of this plant. 



Pyrenean Valerian. Fl. May, June. Scotland. PI. 2 to 4 ft. 



45 V. ITA'LICA (Lam. ill. 1. p. 92.) plant glabrous, erect; 

 stems terete, nearly smooth ; radical leaves petiolate, undivided, 

 ovate-oblong, remotely toothed, the rest pinnate ; leaflets or 

 lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, toothed ; corymbs subpanicled ; 

 fruit glabrous. 1. H. Native of Liguria and Candia, on the 

 mountains. Vahl, enum. 2. p. 6. Dufr. val. p. 45. V. tube- 

 rosa, Imp. hist. nat. ed. 2. p. 656. with a figure. Flowers 

 truly triandrous, not tetrandrous, as said by Lam. and Vahl. 



Italian Valerian. PI. 1 to 2 feet ? 



46 V. ELONGA'TA (Lin. spec. p. 1664.) plant glabrous, erect; 

 stems striated ; radical leaves petiolate, oval ; cauline leaves ses- 

 sile, subcordate or hastate ; upper leaves deeply 3-5-cleft, acute ; 

 panicle elongated, with the lateral branches short and subcorym- 

 bose ; corolla very short, tubularly campanulate ; fruit glabrous. 

 If. H. Native of Austria, Carniola, &c. on the alps. Jacq. fl. 

 austr. 3. t. 219. vind. t. 1. Morr. ox. sect. 7. t. 15. f. 20. 

 Root whitish, with little taste or smell. Flowers dusky. Stems 

 6-10 inches high. 



Var. ft, polygama (D. C. prod. 4. p. 637.) plant larger; up- 

 per leaves trifid. "$.. H. Native of Galicia, in humid mea- 

 dows. V. dioica, Bess. prim. 1. p. 48. enum. p. 40. V. poly- 

 gama, Bess, in litt. Flowers corymbose, a little larger than in 

 V. elongata ; but very similar in form. 



E/ongated-pnnic\ed Valerian. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1812. 

 PI. | to | foot. 



47 V. ASARIFO'LIA (Dufr. val. p. 44.) plant glabrous, erect ; 

 radical leaves petiolate, cordate-reniform, a little toothed ; 

 cauline leaves few, pinnate ; lobes or leaflets of the upper leaves 

 linear; corymbs rather contracted. I/ . H. Native of Crete, 

 on the Spaceotic mountains. Sieb. herb. cret. Schultes, syst. 1. 

 p. 356. mant. 1. p. 259. Alp. exot. p. 132. with a figure. 

 Flowers red. Root tuberous, black. 



Asarabacca-Ieaved Valerian. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1824. PI. 

 1 foot. 



48 V. TUBEROSA (Lin. spec. p. 46.) plant glabrous ; radical 

 leaves ovate, lanceolate-oblong or oblong, undivided, quite en- 

 tire ; cauline leaves pinnatifid, with 2-3 pairs of linear segments 

 or lobes, the terminal segment the largest ; corymbs at first co- 



: In.:* r-,ae, hairy. If. . H. Native of the south of 

 Europe, iroui ^w '.in to Caucasus ; of Siberia, near Sogra and 

 Wjclrichit, :r;l tro.n Buchtorminsk to Lake Noor Saisan. Vahl, 

 enuiii. i. p. I/. Dufr. val. p. 45. D. C. fl. fr.no. 3320. Lob. 

 . Cam. epit. p. 16. Root tuberous, blackish, 

 sitnpfe or double, ovate or oblong. There are varieties of this 

 species with the cauline leaves all pinnatifid, or the lower ones 

 are quite entire, oblong-lanceolate and elongated, and the upper 

 leaves more or less pinnatifid. Flowers pale red. 



Var, fl, monorhlza (D. C. prod. 4. p. 637.) root simple, nearly 

 globose; radical leaves ovate-cordate, }/. H. Native of 

 Liguria. V. bulb&sa, Imp. hist. nat. ed. 12. p. 659. with a 

 figure. Barrel, icon. t. 867. V. monorhiza, Dufr. val. p. 44. 



Tu&erows-rooted Valerian. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1629. PI. 

 1-j foot. 



49 V. PHU' (Lin. spec. p. 45.) plant glabrous, erect; stems 

 terete, smooth; radical leaves oblong or elliptic, undivided; 

 cauline ones pinnatifid, with oblong lobes ; corymbs panic-led ; 



lobes of stigma 3, slender; frjuit glabrous, but exhibiting 2 hairy 

 lines. I/. H. Native of Alsatia, Switzerland, Silesia, Cauca- 

 sus, &c. in subalpine places, but not of the Pyrenees. Dufr. 

 val. p. 40. but not of Lapeyr, nor Ruiz et Pav.? Fusch, hist, 

 p. 155. with a figure. Heyn. arz. gew. 3. t. 33. good. Blackw. 

 t. 256 Plench. t. 28. Moris, hist. sect. 7. t. 14. f. 1. Riv. 

 mon. t. 3. Lob. icon. t. 714. Root oblique, thick, and matted, 

 pale green. Plant glaucous. Flowers white, with a pleasant smell. 

 Phu or Garden Valerian. Fl. May, July. Clt. 1597. PI. 

 2 to 4 feet. 



50 V. DU'BIA (Bunge, in Led. fl. alt. 1 . p. 52.) primary 

 radical leaves quite entire or auricled ; the rest lyrately pinna- 

 tifid, and the cauline leaves pinnate ; leaflets oblong, obtuse, 

 almost entire : superior ones decurrent ; corymbs compound ; 

 flowers hermaphrodite. If. . H. Native of Siberia. V. offi- 

 cinaiis, Falk. topogr. beytr. 2. no. 50. ? Gmel. fl. sib. 3. p. 

 120. no. 1. exclusive of the synonymes. This species is very 

 nearly allied to V. officinalis, but differs from it in the lower 

 leaves being undivided or auricled. Stem and margins of leaves 

 beset with minute adpressed hardly conspicuous pili. 



Var. a, latifolia (Bunge, 1. c.) segments of leaves 7-11, more 

 remote and broader than in var. /3. If. . H. Native of Si- 

 beria, frequent on schistous mountains in exposed places. 



Var. /3, angustifolia (Bunge, I. c.) segments of leaves 21-27, 

 more crowded and narrower, and more elongated than in var. a. 

 If.. H. Native of Siberia, near Salair and Barnaul. 



Doubtful Valerian. PI. 2 to 3 feet. 



51 V. DIOI'CA (Lin. spec. p. 44.) plant glabrous, erect; stems 

 striated ; radical leaves petiolate, ovate or subspatulate, undi- 

 vided ; cauline leaves pinnatifid, with linear-oblong lobes ; 

 flowers dioecious ; corymbs of the male flowers loose ; of the 

 female ones contracted ; lobes of stigma almost combined ; fruit 

 glabrous. I/. H. Native of Europe and the Levant, in wet 

 meadows and marshes, and by the sides of streams and ditches ; 

 in Britain in moist boggy meadows frequent. Dufr. val. p. 29. 

 Oed. fl. dan. t. 687. Sturm, deutsch. fl. with a figure. Heyne, 

 arzn. gew. 3. p. 478. Smith, engl. bot. 628. Curt. lond. 4. t. 3. 

 Poit. et Turp. fl. par. t. 41. V. sylvestris, Gray. brit. arr. 2. p. 

 478. V. montana, gen. el. no. 31. ex Wahl. Roots horizontal, 

 creeping, white, but sometimes tinged with red, slender. 

 Flowers white, tinged with red or flesh coloured. 



Var. ft, integrifolia (D. C. prod. 4. p. 637.) all the leaves 

 both radical and cauline are quite entire. I/ . H. Native of 

 Silesia. V. dioica simplicifolia, Reich, icon. 1. p. 48. t. 59. 

 Loes. pruss. no. 724. t. 84. 



Dioecious Valerian. Fl. May, July. Britain. PI. -j to 1 foot. 



* Species natives of America. 



52 V. CAPITA'TA (Pall, in Willd. herb. no. 789. exclusive of 

 Cham, et Schlecht. which is Gentiana frigida,) plant glabrous, 

 erect; stems downy at the nodi; radical leaves petiolate, roundish, 

 simple ; cauline ones almost sessile, simple or ternate ; leaflets 

 sinuately serrated, middle one the largest ; panicles terminal, 

 capitate, girded by long linear bracteas ; tube of corolla elon- 

 gated ; fruit ovate, compressed, glabrous. I/ . H. Native of 

 the higher ranges of the Sagan Alps, at the bay of St. Laurence ; 

 Kotzebue's Sound ; on the Arctic shores of America beyond 

 Behring's Straits ; and between the Coppermine and Mackenzie 

 rivers. Link, jahrb. 1. pt. 3. p. 66. Cham, et Schlecht. in 

 Linnaea. 3. p. 130. Perhaps distinct from V. tripteris, ex Stev. 

 obs. in herb. Willd. 



Capte/e-flowered Valerian. PI. 1 foot. 



53 V. SYLVA'TICA (Banks, mss. Richards, in Frankl. 1st 

 journ. ed. 2. append, p. 2.) plant glabrous, erect ; stem striated ; 

 radical leaves petiolate, ovate or subspatulate, undivided ; cau- 

 line leaves pinnate-parted, with ovate-lanceolate nearly entire 



