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24. Valerianella patellaria. — Ice. nostr. Tab. III, fig. 24. 
Fedia patellaria SuLLIVANT in ÅA. Gray, Bot. N. Unit. St., ed. 1. 
V. capsula orbiculari, antice applanato-concava, basi apiceque emarginata; loculis 
sterilibus compresso-linearibus, valde divergentibus, fertili plus duplo majoribus. 
Syn. Valerianella radiata SHUTTLEWORTH 1. c., p. 209—10 (p. p-), non alior. 
Fedia patellaria fruit smooth, circular, platter-shaped or disklike, slightly notched at both ends, the flattened- 
concave sterile cells widely divergent, much broader than the fertile one, and forming a kind of wing 
around it when ripe Ww. S. SuLuiv.! 1. c. ed. 1 (1848), p. 183 et ed. 2, p. 176 fide spec. et arche- 
typi, quod misit ill. A. Gray. 
Icon. " SHUTTLEW. 1. c. Tab. III, fig. I: C, D, E (non vero A, B). 
Habit. in locis humidis Americe borealis [circa Columbus! (SULLIVANT) reipublice Ohio et 
in montibus Alleghany (SHUTTLEWORTH)]. 
Herba elata: 1—2-pedalis, glabra caule, foliis cymisque sequentis. Bractece glabree, 
basi membranaceo-marginate serrulateque, lanceolato-lineares. Capsule 1” longe, patellse- 
formes, glaberrime pericarpio tenuissimo, albo (parietibus loculorum sterilium anticis sub- 
membranaceis); loculus fertilis elevatus, partem faciei dorsalis' perparvam occupans, con- 
vexiusculus, anguste ovato-oblongus, in medio et lateraliter 1-costatus; loculi steriles alze- 
formes septo brevissimo introrsum contigui, sulcis a fertili distineti, angulo acuto et 1-co- 
stato; apex capsul&e a dorso loculi fertilis in denticulum, loculos steriles non superantem 
continuatus. Stamina exserta. 
Icones nostre partim ad exempl. orig. in Ohio collecta, partim ad archetypum 
cl. Sullivanti. 
Obs. Species capsula valde insignis jam 1837 cl. SHuUTTLEWORTH cognita videtur 
sed cum V. radiata ab illo sine dubio confusa est. 
25. Valerianella umbilicata. — Ice. nostr. Tab. III, fig. 25. 
Fedia umbilicata SULLIVANT in Sillim., Amer. Journ. XLII 
V. capsula orbiculari-ovata, antice subplana stria in umbilicum profundum, pariete 
membranaceo insignem, capsula breviorem angustioremque ampliata notata; loculis steri- 
libus basi apiceque longitudinaliter contiguis, in medio introrsum tantum contiguis, fertili 
fere duplo majoribus. 
Syn. Fedia umbilicata fructu subgloboso-inflato glabro apice unidentato antice profunde umbilicato, loculis sterilibus 
fertili multoties majoribus . . . Wm. S. SULLIVANT 1 c. (April 1842), p. 50 sec. spec. orig. in herb. 
Fries et Mus. Vindob.; A. Grar, Bot. N. Unit. St., ed. 2, p. 176. 
Habit. in humidis Americe borealis [circa Columbus! (SULLIVANT) reipublice Ono]. 
Herba elata (exemplaria ulnam cum quadrante attingentia vidimus), tota glabra. 
Caulis angulatus, rubescens, infra medium vy. a medio dichotome divisus ramis nöligue 
erectis. Folia imferiora oblonga basi attenuata; media sessilia, linearia, subacuta, Integra 
v. basi denticulata. Cymce parve. Bractew lanceolato-lineares, acute, glabre eciliateque. 
Capsule 3" longe, glaberrime, facie postica convexe facie antica plano-convexiusculze; lo- 
culus fertilis, partem faciei dorsalis majorem occupans, ovatus, in medio et lateraliter 
1-costatus, sulco levissimo utringque a loculis sterilibus distinctus; loculi steriles sepissime 
curvati, antice basin versus subgibbi interjecto umbilico modo suborbiculari modo trian- 
gulari etc., in capsulis adultis septo interdum incompleto v. evanescente coadunati, angulo 
obsolete 1-costati; apex capsul& a dorso loculi fertilis in dentem obtusum, loculos steriles 
superantem continuatus. 
