Fedia.l TKIANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. 21 



Marshy meadows, frequent. Fl. June. 1/ . — Stem G — 8 inches high. 

 Leaves more or less serrated. Flowers of a pale rose colour. 



3. V. qfficindlis, L. (g/real wild Valerian) ; corolla gibbous afc 

 tlie base, leaves all pinnated, leaflets lanceolate nearly uniform 

 serrated. E. Bot. t. 698. 



Ditches, sides of rivers and moist woods, abundant. Fl. June, July. 

 1^. — Roots tuberous, warm, aromatic and employed in medicine, as those 

 of the (pot/ of Dioscorides, V. Dioscoridis, Sin. which is not the V. Phu 

 of Linn. Cats are very fond of these roots, and their scent attracts rats. 

 The leaves are much used by the poor as an application to fresh wounds; 

 hence the plant has received the name of All-heal. Wiiole plant 2 — 4' 

 feet high ; stems striated. Lower leaves on long foot-stalks. Flowers 

 pale flesh-coloured. 



4. * V. Pi/rendica, L. (heart-leaved Valerian) ; corolla gibbous 

 at the base, leaves heart-shaped deiitato-serrate petiolate, upper 

 ones with one or two pair of small lanceolate leaflets. E. Bot. 

 t. 1591. 



Woods in Scotland. It is peculiar, I believe, to the Pyrenees ; but 

 being frequently cultivated in gardens and the seeds very volatile, like 

 those of the Syngenesious plants, it is not wonderful that it should be 

 naturalized in other countries. Fl. June, July. If- — Habit of V. offi- 

 cinalis, but very different in its foliage. 



2. Fedia. Vuhl. Corn-Sallad. 



1. Y.olit6ria,Yi\\\\, (common Corn-Sallad or Lamb's Lettuce); 

 capsule subglobose inflated glabrous, crowned with the 3 obscure 

 inflexed teeth of the calyx, flowers capitate. Valeriana Lo- 

 custa, L. — E. Bot. t. 811. 



Banks and corn-fields, especially in a light soil. Fl. April — June. ©. 

 — 3 inches to a foot high, diciiotomous, more or less rough, lioot-leaves 

 spathuiate ; those of the stem oblong, obtuse, entire or tlie upper ones a 

 little toothed. Flowers pale blue, in terminal compact heads, at the 

 base of which are linear-oblong, often divided bracteas, forming a kind 

 of involucre. — Frequently cultivated as a salad. 



2. F. dentdta, Vahl, [smooth narroio-fruited Corn-Salad); 

 capsule ovate ribbed in front acuminate crowned with the pro- 

 minent cup-shaped oblique unequally 4-toothed calyx, flowers 

 corymbose, a sessile flower in the forks. — a. capsule glabrous, 

 cup of the calyx small. Valeriana dentata, Willd — E. Bot. t. 

 ]370. — /3, capsule clothed Avith spreading incurved rigid hairs^ 

 cup of the calyx small. F. mixta, Vahl. — Diifr. Val. p. 58. 

 t. 3. /. 6. Brit. Fl. ed. 2. v. i. p. 23. — y. capsule clothed witb 

 spreading incurved rigid hairs, cup of the calyx large. F. 



eriocarpa, lioem. et Sch Dufr. Val. p. 39. ^ 3. n. 4. Hook. Br.. 



Fl. ed. 2. V. i. p. 24. 



a. Corn-fields and hedge-banks, but not common. Cornwall, Essex 

 and Cambridgeshire, and about Edinburgh. North Wales. Long Lane 

 Quarries, Cheney Longville, Shropshire. Mr W. A. Leighton. Jersey. 

 Babington §- Christi/. — /3. Hedge-banks, near Halesworth, Sutfolk. — 

 y. Ormeshead. Caernarvonshire. Fl. June, July. 0. — Perhaps oftea 



