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*2. V. pyrendica (L.) ; 1. hcartshaped serrate stalked, upper 

 1. with 1 2 pairs of small lanceolate leaflets. JE. B. 1591. 

 St. 2 3 feet high, furrowed. Fl. light rose-coloured. Woods, 

 rare. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



3. V. dioica (L) ; fl. imperfectly dioecious, root-L ovate stalked, 

 stem-l. pinnatifid with a large terminal lobe, fr. glabrous. E. B. 

 (328. St. 9. St. a foot or more in height, simple. Fl. flesh- 

 coloured ; rather large with protruded stam. when barren ; or 

 small with included stamens and forming a closer corymb when 

 fertile. Stoloniferous. Boggy places. P. V. VI. E. S. 



3. VALEKIANEL'LA Mill. 

 * Fruit with 2 barren cells, fertile cell corky on tlie back. 



1. V. olitoria (Poll.); fr. compressed oblique, barren cells 

 without furrows, dissepiment incomplete, bracts ciliate. E. B. 

 811. St. 2. 3. R. xii. 708. About 6 in. high. L. ovate- 

 spathulate, upper ones narrower. Fl. in terminal dense cymes 

 with oblong linear opposite bracts. Fr. 3-celled ; 1 cell fertile 

 with its back formed of a thick gibbous spongy mass usually 

 traversed by one furrow, separated by a groove on each side 

 from 2 barren slightly confluent cells each having a slender rib 

 on its side and their junction marked by a slight furrow, 

 [glabrous or (var. lasiocarpa, Reich.) pubescent]. Corn-fields and 

 banks. A. V. VI. Corn-Salad. E.S.I, 



** Fruit with 2 barren conspicuous cells, fertile cell not corky. 



}2. V. carindta (Loisel.) ;/r. oblong boatshaped crowned with 

 1 straight tooth, cells nearly equal each with a single rib on the 

 back, barren cells contiguous in their whole length and with a 

 deep furrow between them, fl. in dense cymes. E. B. S. 2810. 

 R. xii. 708. About 6 in. high. Fl. pale^blue. Koot-1. spathu- 

 late, st.-l. oblong. Bracts ciliate. Fr.-section crescent-shaped. 

 Hedge-banks, rare. A. IV. VI. Lambs' Lettuce. E. S. I. 



3. V. rimosa (Bast.) ; fr. subglobose crowned with 1 erect 

 membranous leaf, barren cells larger than the fertile ones inflated 

 contiguous having a narrow furrow between them, fl. scattered. 

 E. B. S. 2809. R. xii. 709. V. Auricula (DC.) ed. viii. 

 About a foot high. Fl. distant, in the forks of a repeatedly 

 forked cyme. Lower 1. obovate attenuate downwards, upper 1. 

 oblong. Bracts ciliate. Section of the fruit nearly round. 

 Crown of one oblong-blunt obliquely truncate tooth, sometimes 

 with a minute tooth on each side ; or of 3 acute teeth, of which 

 one is much the longest and often 3-pointed. Cultivated land. 

 A. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



