VALERIANACEJE. 616 



Germ en 3- celled ; 2 cells sterile ;^ style subentire at apex. Fruit dry, 

 sometimes increased laterally by an acute 2-nerved and reticulate 

 adpressed bract ; sterile cells large and subequal to or longer than the 

 fertile one. — Perennial herbs, glabrous or villosulose ; leaves opposite, 

 once or twice pinnatifid or pinnatisect ; the lower sometimes entire 

 or subentire ; flowers ^ in terminal cymiferous racemes, bracteate and 

 bracteolate.^ {Cent, temp, and east. Asia.'^) 



3. Valerianella Mcench.^ — Flowers more or less irregular; recep- 

 tacle saclike various. Calyx (?) short entire, sinuate or dentate, 

 sometimes oblique or 0, generally variously increased after an thesis, 

 open or erect, sometimes globosely inflated, regular^ or irregular, 

 2-6-dentate or 3-lobate-horned, sometimes lobed in rigid or rather 

 rigid curved, recurved or hooked awns, more rarely unchanged. Corolla 

 more or less irregular, contracted or attenuate at base ; tube short or 

 elongate, divided or oftener obtusely gibbous ;^ lobes of limb 5, imbri- 

 cate, finally open. Stamens 3, 1 anterior, 2 lateral. Germen 3-celled; 

 2 cells sterile; style shortly or very shortly 3-lobed at apex. Fruit 

 dry, sometimes spongy, oftener crowned with calyx; sterile cells 

 narrow, smaller than fertile or nervelike, contiguous or remote, some- 

 times equal or larger, rarely only longitudinally or introrsely contiguous 

 (Dufresnia^). Other characters of Patrinia, — Annual herbs, oftener 

 small ; branches 2-chotomous ; leaves inferior rosulate entire ; the 

 upper oftener smaller or partly bractlike, entire, dentate, crenate, 

 incised or pinnatifid; flowers^ in compound ramose corymbiform cymes, 

 often 2, 3-chotomous, sometimes contracted and capituhform ; bracts 

 various free.^*^ {Medit. Europe, Asia and Africa, N. America. ^^) 



' Ovule small effete or 0. — H. Bn. Fai/er Fam. Hat. 240.— B. H. Gen. ii. 



2 Yellow or white. 156, n. 9. — Puli/prcmiim Auans. Fam. des PL ii. 



3 Sect. 3 : 1, F(qmt7-inia ; 2, Atrinia (Ledeb.) ; 152 (not L.). — Odontocarpa Neck. Flem. i. 123. 

 3, CentroNisia (Maxim. Full. Acad. Ftterbh. xii. ®In Y, coronata equally dentate. 



67 ; Mel. Biol. vi. 267). '' ^^^ spurred. 



4 Spec. 2, 3. G^RTN. Fruct. t. 86, fig. 3 {Fedia). » DC. Not. Val. 8, t. 3, fig. 1 (whence fig. 401); 

 — Thunb. Fl. Jap. t. 6 {Valeriana).— R^iCYi^. Frodr. iv. 624.— Endl. Qen. n. 2180. 



Icon. Fxut. t. 20, 83, 94.— Sweet, Br. Fl. Gard. ^ Small or very small, white, pink, reddish or 



t. 154. — BoE. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, vi. 70.— Fk. bluish. 



et Sav. Enwn. PL Jap. i. 21^.— Bot. Mag. t. i" Sect. 2 (ex DC. B. H. and others) : 1, Si- 



714, 2325 {Vahiiana). — Walp. Rep. ii. 526; j3Ao«t;/to (Tobu. et Gr.); % Brachy^iplwn ; these 



Ann. i. 986. divided into 4 series {Locustte, Vormgcxt, Fsilo- 



* Mith. 493 (part). — Betcke, Anim. Valer. coelcc, FlatycccUe). 

 (Rost. 1826).— DC. iS'o^. Valer. (1832) 10, t. 3, ^J Spec, about 46. Eeichb. /fo;'. i^t/^t. 60-70, 



fig. 2-10; Frodr. iv. 625.— Dufk. Valer. t. 23. 113-116 {Ftdiu); Ic. FL Germ. t. 708-716.— 



, — Endl. Gen. n. 2181.— Kkok, iT/ow(/<7r. Valer. Sibth. Fl. Gnec.t. 34 (Vahriana). — Tokr. i'7. 



I&w. Vet. Acad. llandL v. (1864) n. 1, 4 tab. N.-York. t. 46.— Boiss. Ftiayn. Or. ser. 2, 120^ 

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