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SPECIES II.— VALE RIANELL A CARINATA. Lois. 



Tlate DCLXX. 



Raich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XII. Tab. DCCVIII. Fig. 1399. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 252 bis. 



FeJia carinata, Stev. Hook & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 201. 



Stems fragile, dichotomous from below the middle. Leaves 

 strapshaped-oblong or oblanccolate-oblong, blunt, entire, or the 

 upper ones very faintly toothed. Flowers all in crowded head-like 

 corymbose cymes. Fruit oblong-ovoid, boat-shaped, scarcely com- 

 pressed ; the fertile cell without any spongy tissue on the back ; the 

 2 barren cells contiguous, distinct, collectively larger than the 

 fertile cell, deeply excavated on the face by a very broad and deep 

 furrow, and separated from the fertile cell by a deep rather narrow 

 furrow. Calyx-segments obsolete in fruit. 



In hedge-banks, cultivated ground, and on old walls, &c. Eare, 

 and perhaps doubtfully native. It has occurred in Devon, Kent, 

 Surrey, Middlesex, Somerset, Essex, Shropshire, Derbyshire, and 

 Yorkshire. Common in the Channel Islands. 



England. Annual. Spring and early Summer. 



V. carinata is so extremely like V. olitoria, that they can only 

 be certainly distinguished by the fruit. That of V. carinata is 

 smaller, and there is not the prominent hump on the back which 

 the corky tissue produces in V. olitoria ; in V. carinata also the 

 edges of the fertile cell project laterally beyond those of the barren 

 cells, and the anterior edges of the latter are curved inwards so as 

 to leave a boat-shaped hollow between them. The bracts are usually 

 longer. The fruit, as in the last, is generally glabrous, but some- 

 times finely hairy. 



Carinuted Lamb' 's-Lettuce. 



French, Mdche en Nacelle. German, Gekieltes Rapiinzclien, 



SPECIES III.-VALERIANELL A AURICULA. D.C. 



Plate DCLXXI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XII. Tab. DCCIX. Fig. 1400, and Tab. DCCXI. 



Fig. 1405. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2483. 

 V. Auricula et dentata, D. G. Prod. Vol. IV. p. 627. 

 V. tridentata. Reich. Fl. Germ. Excurs. p. 198. 

 Fedia Auricula, Gaud. Hook & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 201. 



Stem slender, rather firm, dichotomous usually only from above 

 the middle. Lower leaves oblanceolate-strapshaped, obtuse, entire ; 

 vol. rv. 2 i 



