CLXXVIII. 

 VALERIANA OFFICINALIS. 



Officinal, or Great Wild Valerian, 



Class III. Triandria. — Order I. Monogynia. 



Nat. Ord. Valeriane^:. 



Gen. Char. Calyx a thickened involute margin at the 

 top of the germen, at length unfolding into a feathery- 

 pappus. Corolla monopetalous, five-cleft, gibbous at 

 the base. Fruit indehiscent, one-seeded, crowned with 

 the feathery pappus. 



Spec. Char. Corolla gibbous at the base. Leaves all 

 pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, nearly uniform, serrated. 



SYNONYM ES. 



r Valeriana sylvestris major. Bauh. Pin. 164. Rail Syn. 200. 

 Park. Theatr. 122. Dod. Pempt. 346. 

 Valeriana major sylvestris. Ger. Em. 1075. 

 Phu germanicum. Fuch. Hist. 857. 



J Valeriana Officinalis. Lin. Sp. PI. 45. Eng. Fl. i. p. 43. 



L Eng. Bot. t. 698. Curt. Land. 6. t. 3. Dufr. Vol. p. 46. 

 French .... Valeriane ; Valeriane sauvage. 



Italian Valeriana. « 



Sp. $ Port. Valeriana. 



German. . . Baldrian ; Gemeiner Baldrian. 



Dutch Valeriane ; Wilde Valeriane. 



Danish .... Baldrian ; Valansdrod ; Venderod ; (Einrod Valerian. 

 Swedish. .. Vendelrot. 



Polish Kozlki ; Koztkowy. 



Buss Balderjan ; Maun. 



Latin. . ...^ 



Description. — The root is perennial, composed of long, 

 slender, fleshy, whitish or dusky brown fibres, united into 

 a head and sending out long creeping shoots from the crown. 



