92 TH. 0. B. N. KROK, 
medio striata superne itidem 1-costata; apex capsule submuticus denviculis minimis a 
costis capsulze. | 
Icones nostre (formam microcarpam gibbo postico minore exhibentes) ad exempl. 
originalia in exsicc. BALANSZE citato. 
Obs. Habitu capsul& V. olitoriam nonnihil referens indumento capsul& singulari, 
parietibus ejusdem incrassatis, loculis sterilibus multo minoribus, loculo fertili perparvo : 
etc. valde differt V. capitata; structura tamen capsul& V. costate magis est affinis, a qua 
indumento, forma gibboque capsulze atque loculis sterilibus aliis etc. bene diversa videtur. 
42. Valerianella costata. — Ic. nostr. Tab. IV, fig. 42. 
Fedia costata STEVEN in Mém. Mosc. 5. 
V. capsula glabra, a latere subrotunda, compressiuscula, longitudinaliter bistriata, 
apice mutica, antice subplana atque veluti postice 1-striata; pericarpio loculi fertilis gibbo 
lato aucto; loculis sterilibus, parietibus incrassatis instructis, parvis et septo spe crasso 
distinctis, fertili triangulari, ad marginem lateris extremum non extenso, paulo ma- 
joribus. 
Syn. Fedia costata fructu glaberrimo subrotundo compressiusculo obtusissimo, utrinque sulcis duobus profundis exa- 
rato StEv.! Obs. Pl. Ross. 1. ce. (1817), p. 344 ex herb. auctoris et spec. in herb. Mus. Holm.; M. a 
BiBB. 1. c. III (Suppl), p. 28. — Valerianella BetcKE 1. c., p. 11; LEDEB. 1. c., p. 429. 
Fedia gibbosa Guss., F1. Sic. Prodr. I (1827), p- 28 [forma macrocarpa]; Woops 1 c., p. 430. — Vale-' 
rianella TINEo! Cat. pl. hort. panorm. 1827, p. 264 sec. syn. Guss. et spec. auctoris in berb. DE C.; 
BertoL. 1. c., p. 186; Guss. Fl. Sic. Syn., p. 30; VISIANI LI. c., p. 19 (apud omnes excel. icone DE C. 
Mém. Val. fig. 3 citata). 
Valerianella gibbosa et V. costata Dr C., Prodr. 1. ec. (1830), p. 626 (excl. ic. DE C. Mém. Val. fig. 3 
citata). 
Icon. ' BEtcKE l. c., fig. 2 (haud bona; loculus fertilis deest); "DE C. Mém. Val. Pl. III, fig. 2 (s. n. V. olito- 
rie; analyses male). 
Posice. E. et A. Huet du Pavillon, Plantae SiculXx 1855! 
Habit. in Rossia meridionali [in vineis vallis Sudak et circa Sympheropolin Taurizx meri- 
dionalis! (STEVEN, HASSHAGEN) rarior, Turcia boreali (Serbia ad Belica regionis 
Jagodina (PAnNcic)], Dalmatia [in satis montis Svilaja (Visranr)], Italia media fin 
pratis apricis secus Tivoli flore Roman&e (SANGUInettI)] atque Sicilia fin pascuis 
apricis montosis: Madonie ”al piano della Principessa”! (GASPARRINI sec. GUSSONE, 
TODARO, ”TINEO, ali) et ”al pizzu delli casi” (MnA sec. Guss.), Bujambra! (TINEO 
in herb. DE C. et Mus. Holm.)]. — Floret Aprili, Majo. 
Herba pusilla (1—4-pollicaris), glabriuscula. Caulis inde a basi vel a medio, sepe 
superne tantum dichotome divisus ramis sepe divaricatis. Folia inferiora spathulata; me- 
dia oblongo-linearia, omnia integerrima, basi vix ciliata. Cyme subcapitate, pauciflore; 
flores solitarii in dichotomiis superioribus desunt. Bractece in capsula patentes, oblongo- 
lineares, integerrime (rarissime denticulate), anguste membranaceo-marginate, glaberrimae 
eciliateque. Capsule facile decidux, ?'—1" longe, glabre interdum irregulariter subru- 
gulos&, in planta sicula nonnumquam tantillum obliquee, apice edentul&e facie postica con- 
vexa, inferne tantum 1-striata superne 1-costata, lateraliter utringue costis plus minus 
prominulis instructe; loculi ut in V. capitata dispositi, at nonnihil majores. Corolla parva, 
pallide cerulea. 
Icones nostre ad exempla orig. Steveniana; "ad exempla sicula s. n. V. gibbose. 
