98 TH. 0. B. N. KROK, 
Syn. Fedia Nuttallii: tube of the corolla slender, twice or thrice the length of the limb, furnished with a small 
callous gibbosity above the middle; fruit with a nearly orbicular outline, very glabrous, minutely 3-too- 
thed at the summit; flowers in capitate cymules; bracts ovate-lanceolate, glandularly serrulate ... TORR. 
& Gr. 1. c. (1841), p. 51. — Valerianella WALPERS 1. c., p. 527. 
Habit. in planitiebus Americe borealis [Arkansas cum priore (NUTTALL)]. 
Priori simillima de qua dubitare numquam desivimus. Folia integra, brevia, obo- 
vato-spathulata; superiora oblonga. Cyme capitate. Capsule glaberrime. Corolla alba 
tubo prioris breviore, supra medium minute calloso-gibboso limboque ideo ex proportione 
majore (n. v.). 
1 Species dubia. 
? Valerianella chenopodifolia DE C., Prodr. 1. c., p- 629. 
”Dichotoma; foliis ovatis acutis inferne dentatis, cymis nudis divaricato-dichotomis, 
filamentis longis.” 
Syn. Valeriana virginiana, pedis anserine foliis. Pet. H. S. in herb. SHERARD (sec. PursH). 
Fedia chenopodifolia PursH, Fl. Amer. septentr. vol. II (1814), p. 727 (suppl.). 
Habit. in Virginia (PEtiv. sec. PursH, qui plantam siccam in herb. SHERARD viderat). 
”Spithamam circiter alta; flores magnitudine Valeriane officinalis”. — Descriptionem 
Purshii exscriptam ad verbum expressimus. Species hec auctoribus etiam americanis 
ignota est; nonne V. triquetra? 
11 Species delenda. 
Valerianella lasiocephala BETCKE (Animadv. bot. in Valerianell. p. 21 c. ic. -fig. 16; 
quam postea REICHENBACH, Pl crit. cent. 4, p, 40 definitione Betckeana transcripta Fe- 
diam lasiocephalam nominabat) est species omnino ficta. Quod exemplum ante oculos ha- 
buit auctor vidimus; idem ”V. pumile” nominatum in herb. Mus. Berol. asservatur sed 
loco natali caret; hoc diligenter examinavimus et hanc speciem Betckeanam statum 
”tantum juvenilem invenimus V. coronate esse, cujus loculi capsulze steriles exsiccatione 
pressioneque sunt deleti. Nonnullos ceterum characteres Betcke speciei suge tribuit, quos 
in icone etiam expressos ab eodem exemplo colligere non potuit. At silentio tamen non 
est preetereundum, SADLER (FI. comit. Pesthin. ed. 2, p. 24: definitione descriptioneque 
Betckei exscripta) itidemque FEUEREGGER circa Pesthinum (Budam: FEURREGGER) hungari- 
cum crescere hanc dictam speciem contendere. 
Ti Species e genere excludende. 
Valerianella congesta TisDLeEY, Bot. Reg. XII (1827), 1094 = Plectritis congesta DE C. 
Prodr. 
» cornucopice T.oIsSEL.-DEsL., F1. gall. ed. I, p. 23 = Fedia Cornucopie G.ERTN. 
» exscapa STREV. in Mém. Mose. II, p. 251 (inde in De C. Prodr. 1. c., p. 625) 
= Hohenackeria bupleurifolia FiscH. MeEr., Ind. II sem. h. petrop., 
p. 39. 
» laxa PrEsL., Repert. Bot. Syst. vol. I = Astrephia laxa Hoor. & ARN. 
» lutea MorncE, Method. p. 493 = Patrinia sibirica JUSss. 
» petrophila (BunGE? sec.) StrEupD. = Valeriana petrophila BunGE in Ledeb. FI. Alt. 
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