436 VALERIANACE^ BRUNONIACE.E PLANTAGINACE^. 



Levant. N. Africa. Mount Vesuvius. Nowr cultivated in gardens, even 

 about Quito. Fl. smallish, rose-coloured, C. S. 

 2. Calcitrapa, Dufr. {DC.pr. 4, p. 632 ;— G. Don's Mill. diet. 3, p. 672.— 

 Valeriana Calcitrapa, L. ; — Sibth. and Sm. fl. gr. t. 30. — V. annua. 

 Gray.) © S. Europe, along the Mediterranean. Temperate France, as 

 far as Nantes. Fl. smallish, white, tinged with red, Feb. and March ; 

 fr. April. 



* Valerianella Morisonii, DC. (Fedia dentata, Bieb. ; — E. B. 20, t. 

 1370.) Europe. Tauria. — V. Auricula, DC. © S. Europe. — V. den.. 

 iata, DC. ©Europe. — Astrephia chcerophylloides, DC. © Lima. — Plec- 

 tritis congesta, DC. (Valerianella congesta, Lindl. ;■ — B. Reg. 13, t. 

 1095.) © N. W. America. — Valeriana scandens, L. ^. Brazil, St. Do- 

 mingo. — V. dio'ica, L. ; E. B. 9, t. 628. % Swampy places of Europe 

 and Levant. — V. mexicana, DC % Mexico. — V. officinalis, L. ; E. 

 B. 10, t. 698. % Humid places of Europe. 



ORDER CLXXXIX.— BRUNONIACEiE, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 266. 



Herbs, referred by Lindl. to one genus, with 2 species, both natives of 

 N. Holland. Properties unknown. 



* Brunonia sericea, Sm. %. Tropical New Holland. 



ORDER CXC— PLANTAGINACEiE, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 267. 



THE RIB GRASS TRIBE. 



Herbs, by Lindl. referred to 2 genera. Of these, 38 species have, ac- 

 cording to Spreng. syst. been discovered in Europe ; 20 in S- America, 

 and Mexico ; 7 in N. America ; 6 in N. Africa ; 5 in S. Africa; 4 in Sibe- 

 ria ; 4 in N. Holland and the South Sea Islands ; 3 in Caucasus and Tau- 

 ria ; 3 in the Canaries ; 2 in the Levant ; 1 in Patagonia ; 1 in Terra del 

 Fuego ; and I in the Straits of Magellan. About 5 species have been found 

 in the Himalayas, Khassya Mountains, Neelgherries, Philippines, and 

 Cochin China ; all belonging to Plantugo. Properties slightly bitter and 

 astringent ; the seeds covered with mucus. 

 Plantago, L. {Spreng. syst. 1, p. 369, No 456; — R. Br. pr. fl. Nov. 



lioll. I, p. 280.) Plantain. 

 \. major, L. (Spreng. syst. I, p. 433;— E. B. 22, t. 1558.— Roxb. H. 



n. p. 10.) % Europe. Fl. small, white, R. S. ; fr. C. S. 



