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OED. XLIY. VALERLOTACEJE. 

 CENTRANTHUS. SPUK-VALEBIAN. 



C. rnber (red Spur- Valerian.} On old walls, rocks, and in 

 stony places. Plant from 12 to 18 inches or 2 feet high ; stems 

 numerous ; leaves smooth, ovate-lanceolate, the lower ones en- 

 tire, upper often toothed. Flowers red, sometimes white, in 

 dense cymes. Tube of the corolla with a spur. Fruit with a 

 feathery pappus. Common on rocks, and on nearly every old 

 wall about Torquay. Exeter, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Dartmouth, 

 Fl. D. Valeriana "rubra, Linn. (E. B. t. 1531.) P.VI.-IX. 



VALERZANA. VALEKIAN. 



1. V. dioica (small marsh V.) Marshy meadows, not un- 

 frequent. Several erect flowering stems, 6 to 8 inches high, are 

 sent off from the same root. The root-leaves on long stalks, 

 ovate, entire ; those of the stem pinnate. Flowers in terminal 

 corymbs, small, pale-rose colour. Milber Down. Forde bog, 

 near Newton. Marychurch, Rev. A. fleck, in Fl. J). (E. B. t. 

 628.) P. Y. vi. 



2. V. officinalis (great wild T.) Sides of ditches and 

 rivers, in moist situations and damp woods, very frequent. Sterne 

 much larger than the last, from 2 to 4 feet high. Leaves pinnate, 

 with from 9 to 21 lanceolate segments ; the upper leaves few and 

 distant. Flowers small, pinkish- white. A very handsome-looking 

 plant. Side of a stream at the back of Forde House, Newton. 

 Forde bog. Side of Stover canal. (E. B. t. 698.) P. vi. VH. 



FEDIA. COKN-SALAD. 



1. P. olitoria (common (7., or LamUs- Lettuce.) Waste 

 places, hedges, and cornfields. An insignificant-looking plant, 

 seldom more than 6 inches high, branching at the base and re- 

 peatedly forked. Leaves opposite, oblong. Flowers in terminal 

 heads, of a pale-blue colour. Fruit roundish, 3-celled. Common 

 in fields on the Warberry Hill, etc. (E. B. t. 811.) Valerianella, 

 Bab. A. v. TI. 



2. F. dentata (smooth narrow-fruited C) Hedge-banks and 

 cornfields, not so common as the last. Stem erect ; leaves small 

 and narrow. Flowers flesh-coloured, single, in the division of 



