Valeriana. VALERIANACE.E. 319 



Stem-leaves 3-6 inches long; the divisions in 2 - 5 pairs, varying from oblong-ovate to 

 bnear-lanceolate, mostly acute, often entire, but usually with a few remote and small teeth 

 Flowers numerous, in a pedunculate 2 - 3.forked compound cyme. Calyx, as in the rest of 

 the genus, with the hmb at first curled inwards so as to be almost concealed, at length un- 

 foldmg mto a beautiful pappus of numerous feathery rays. Corolla about three lines long 

 f Fruirr!bbed'''' '"'"°'"'"" ^'''"'" '''"'"^- ^^^^^ ^"^^^ '°"S -^ filiform: stigmas 

 Sphagnous swamp in Savannah, Wayne county (Dr. Sartwell). Fl. June - July The 

 only other known locality of this interesting plant, in the United States, is Fairhaven, Vermont 



to those of V. dioica, to which it is nearly allied. 



2. FEDIA. Mcench. ; J. Woods in Linn, trans. 17. p. 421. t. 21. COrn-salad. 



Fedia and Valerianella, Manch., DC, Endl, <f.f. 



[A name of uncertain meaning.] 



Limb of the calyx toothed and persistent, or obsolete. Tube of the corolla not spurred, but 

 sometimes gibbous at the base ; the limb 5-lobed, regular or somewhat irregular. Stamens 

 2 or 3. St,gmaentire,or2-3-lobed. Fruit 3-celled ; two of the cells empty (sometimes 

 confluent into one); the other one-seeded.-Annual smoothish herbs, more or less dichoto- 

 mous above. Leaves oblong or linear, sessile, entire, or often toothed or incised near the 

 base. Flowers in glomerate or crowded cymules, white, rose-color or purple. Bracts 

 opposite, or somewhat involucellate. 



f Valerianella, Mo^nch Corolla mth a short tube and regular limb : stamens 3 : stigma S-cleft 

 or ent^re : empty cells of the fruit membranaceous and inflated, or somet^mes nerv^form. ^ 



1. Fedia Fagopvrum, Ton: ^- Gr. (PI. XL VI.) Buckwheat Corn-salad. 



Fruit triangular, with an ovate outline, nearly smooth when mature, obscurely 3 - 5-toothed 

 at the apex; the lateral angles acute , the anterior somewhat obtuse; upper leaves mostly 

 entire and rather acute ; flowers white.- Torr. 4- Gr.jl. N. Am. 2. p. 52. F. radiata Torr 

 Jl. 1. p. 35 (chiefly), not o( Michx. Valeriana radiata, Beck, bot. p. 164 (partly) 



Stem 6-18 inches high, usually twice 2-forked above. Leaves about an inch long some 

 what glaucous, a hllle connate ; the lower spatulate , uppermost lanceolate-oblong Bracts 

 anceolatc, acute ; the margins slightly scarious. Corolla funnel-form, about a line and a half 

 long with a small protuberance on the side of the short narrow lube : lobes scmiovate nearly 

 equal. Stamens and styles included. Stigma small, nearly entire. Fruit about 1 J line Ion- 

 acute, crowned with the minute border of the calyx : two of the angles sharp ■ the othe,' 

 occupied by the 2 contracted empty cells, which always remain distinct 



Wet shady grounds. Banks of the Mohawk river, near Utica(Z)r. Gray c|- Dr. Knicskcrn) 

 Penn-Yan {Dr. Sartwell). May - June. 



