VALJERIANACE^. 617 



6. Fedia Mcench.^ — Flowers irregular; calyx (?) short, unequally 

 3-5-dentate or lobed, not accrescent. Corolla tube slender, with an 

 anterior sessile glandular appendage; lobes of sublabiate limb 5, 

 imbricate.^ Stamens 2, lateral.^ Germen 3-celled ; 2 cells sterile ; 

 style divided at apex into 3 narrow branches, slightly dilated at stig- 

 matose apex. Fruit ^ dry; sterile cells larger than fertile, turgid and 

 introrsely contiguous. Seed &c. of Valerianella, — Glabrous, 2, 3- 

 chotomous annuals ; leaves various, entire or dentate ; flowers ^ in 

 dense 1 -parous terminal cymes; branches of inflorescence oftener 

 thickened and finally hardened ; bracts more or less rigid occasionally 

 rather prominent.^ (Medit, reg!') 



7. Valeriana T.^ — Flowers irregular;^ mouth of pappus ^^ of sac- 

 like receptacle bearing oo (5-20), long-subulate, short and closely 

 involuted hairs, accrete after anthesis and finally open. Corolla more 

 or less irregular; tube short or more rarely elongate, generally gibbous 

 or shortly spurred anteriorly; lobes of limb 5, imbricate ; the anterior 

 oftener covered by the laterals ;^^ finally open. Stamens 3;^^ 2 lateral, 

 1 anterior.'^ Germen 1-3-celled ; 2 cells sterile, oftener nervelike or 

 subnil; ovule in fertile cell 1, descending; raphe dorsal ;^^ style ex- 

 serted, shortly or very shortly 3-dentate or 3-fid at stigmatose apex. 

 Fruit dry, sometimes spongy- 2 -tuberculate, and crowned with pappus; 

 sterile cells inconspicuous or 0. Seed in fertile cell descending exal- 

 buminous;^^ radicle of fleshy embryo superior. — Perennial herbs, ^^ 



1 Meth. 493 (not Adans. nor G.'ertn.).— J. ^ Jnst. 131, t. 52 (part).— L. Gcn.n.U (part). 

 Aim. Mus. X. 311.— DuFR. Val. 54, t. 1.— DC. —J. Gen. 195.— Pom. i)ic^. viii. 293.— DC. iVo^. 

 Not. Val. 13; Frodr. iv. 630.— Endl. Gen. n. Val. (1832) 14, t. 4; Prodr. iv. 632 (part).— 

 2183.— Payer, Organog. 624, t. 132.— H. Bn. Spacu, S. a Buff. x. 307.— Endl. Gin. n. 2186. 

 Payer Fam. Nat. 240.— B. H. Gen. ii. 155, n. 7. — Turp. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 97.— H. Bx. Pager 

 — EicHL. Pluth. i. 275, E.—Mitrophora Neck. Fam. Nat. 241.— Krok, Afon. Val.—B. H. Gen. 

 Ekm. n. 208. ii. 154, n. 5. 



2 The anterior generally interior to both 9 Sometimes dioet;ioas or polygamous, 

 laterals. " Calyx of authors (according to most ob- 



^ The two anterior and the posterior wanting. servers springing after corolla as in Composiim). 



■* Rather large. ^' But sometimes exterior to one or both, the 



5 Pink or reddish. spur being superposed. 



6 A genus in some respects very near to Va- ^^ Sometimes by abortion 1, 2. Pollen ellip- 

 irrianella, in others to Ceutranthus. soid or spherical ; with 3 longitudinal furrows 



7 Spec. 1. F. Cornucopia: DC. Fl. Fr. iv. 240. (II. Mohl, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 315). 

 Ueichb. Ic. fl Germ. t. 717.— FiscH. et Mey. »3 The posterior and 1 of the anterior wanting. 

 Sert. Petrop. t. 22.— Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 93.— »' Coat simple generally very incomplete. 

 WiLLK. et Lang. Prodr. Fl. Bisp. ii. 6.— ?i^'. is o,, ^ith membranous albumen. 

 ncorpioides Dufr.— F. Cornucopiee L. tipec. 44.— '« Very various in form. 



SiBTH. Fl. Gicec. t. 32. -But. Reg. t. 155. 



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