234 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



base of the flowering-stems lanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly 

 stalked, entire ; those on the upper part of the flowering-stem 

 sessile or serni-amplexicaul, ovate or lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, 

 entire or slightly toothed towards the base. Spur of the corolla 

 longer than the ovary. Stamen exserted. 



In chalk-pits, railway cuttings, and on old walls. Perfectly 

 naturalized in the South of England, and imperfectly so in the 

 Northern counties and a few places in Scotland. 



[England, Scotland, Ireland.] Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stems woody only at the base, simple or branched, smooth, hollow, 

 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves somewhat fleshy, 2 to 4 inches long. 

 Panicle terminal, elongated, dense, with opposite dichotomous 

 branches; the bracts of the upper branches small, lanceolate or 

 subulate. Flowers sessile, unilateral, and racemose, on the ultimate 

 branches of the panicle. Calyx-limb 5-lobed. Corolla deep-red 

 varying to white, \ inch long without the spur, which is much longer 

 than the ovary; limb scarcely \ inch in diameter, with 5 ohlong 

 blunt lobes; the one opposite the spur distant from the others. 

 Anther deep purple. Fruit pale-olive, roughened, \ inch long, 

 oblong- cylindrical, flattened from back to face, attenuated towards 

 the apex, with a slender rib down the back and 5 strong ones on 

 the face, which is slightly concave, crowned at the apex with a 

 small expanded membranous cup, on which is situated the deci- 

 duous pappus consisting of numerous plumose rays with white 

 hairs, the rays at first rolled inwards and only expanding when the 

 fruit is mature. Eruit glabrous. 



Med Valerian. 



French, Centrante Rouge. German, Rothe Spornblume. 



SPECIES II.-CENTRANTHUS CALCITRAPA. D.C. 



Plate DCLXV. 



Reich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XII. Tab. DCCXVII. Fig. 1414. 

 Billot, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1219 (6»). 



Annual. Lower leaves spathulatc-obovate, shortly stalked, 

 sometimes entire, sometimes like the intermediate ones lyraie-pin- 

 natifid ; upper ones sessile, deeply pinnatifid or bipinnatifid. Spur 

 of the corolla reduced to a lateral knob not reaching down even to 

 the summit of the ovary. 



On walls and in dry stony places. Naturalized on the walls of 

 Eltham churchyard, Kent. 



[England.] Annual. Early Summer. 



