TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Valeriana. 43 



2. V. dioica. Small Marsh Valerian. 



Flowers with three stamens, dioecious. Stem-leaves pinna- 

 tifid; radical ones ovate. 



V. dioica. Linn. Sp. PL 44. Willd. v. I. 176. Vahl Enum.v.2.2. 



Fl. Br. 37. Engl Bot. v. 9. t. 628. Curt. Lond. fasc. 4. t. 3. 



Hook. Scot. 15. "Fl. Dan. t. 687. Bull. Fr. t.3\l. Poit. 8,- Turp. 



Par. t.4\. 

 V. n.208. Hall. Hist. V. I. 90. 

 V. sylvestris minor, & V. sylvestris, seu palustris, minor altera. 



Rail Syn. 200. 

 V. minor. Ger. Em. 1075./. 



V. minor, et V. flore exiguo. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 2. 

 Phu minimum. Matfh. Falgr. v. \. 38. f. Camer. Epit. 23. f. 



In moist boggy meadows frequent. 



Perennial. June. 



Root creeping. Stem simple, 6 or 8 inches high ; the fertile plant 

 most robust. Leaves and iheir segments mostly entire ; occa- 

 sionally serrated. Fl. flesh-coloured. Spur very short and blunt. 

 Seed-crown red, less feathery. Stain, and pist. sometimes in the 

 samejlower, but scarcely both perfect. 



3. V. officinalis. Great Wild Valerian. 



Stamens three. Leaves all pinnate; leaflets lanceolate, nearly 

 uniform. 



V. officinalis. LJn«...Sp.PZ. 45. Willd. v. \. 177. FahlEnum.v.2.6. 



Fl. Br. 38. Engl. Bot. v. 10. t. 698. Curt. Lond. fasc. 6. t. 3. 



Hook. Scot. 15. Woodv. t.96. Fl. Dan. t. 570. 

 V. n. 210. Hall. Hist. v.\. 91. 



V. sylvestris major. RaiiSyn. 200. Ger. Em. 1075. f. 

 Valeriana. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 1. 

 Phu. Column. PJnjtob. 1 13. if. 1 14. 

 Ph. parvum. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 37. f. 

 Ph. minus. Camer. Epit. 22. f. 

 Ph. germanicum. Fuchs. Hist. 857. f- 

 jS. Valeriana sylvestris major montana. Bauh.Pin. 164. Dill, in 



Raii Sy7i. 200. 

 V. foliis angustioribus. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 2.f. 1 . 



In marshes, and about the banks of pools and rivers. 



/3. In dry mountainous woods and pastures. 



Perennial. June. 



/?oo< tuberous, somewhat creeping, fetid; in (3 more aromatic, 

 and preferred for medical use. Stem about 4 feet high, furrowed. 

 Lcajiets coarsely serrated ; those of the radical leaves broadest, 

 approaching to ovate ; bui tlierc is no remarkably large termi- 

 nal leaflet ; those of the stem in j3 are very narrow, and oflen 



