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Fedia.'] 



XLIV. VALERLlNACEiE 



201 



Ditches, sides of rivers and moist woods, abundant. 1|. ■ G— S. 

 i?(;o^5 tuberous, warm, aromatic, and employed in medicine; cats 

 are very fond of them, and their scent attracts rats. The leaves are 

 much used by the poor as an application to fresh wounds, whence 

 the common name of All-heaL 



Whole plant 2 



4 ft. high. 



In our 



British forms the 5fems are perhaps always solitary from each root; 

 but if V, uUginosa Wend, be also a mr., they are sometimes tufted- 

 Lower leaves on long footstalks. 



Flowers pale flesh-coloured. Frttit 



glabrous or pubescent. 



3. V. 



* 



^. . . Pyrendica L. (Jieart-leaved F.) ; leaves lieart-shapcd 

 dentate-serrate petiolate, upper ones with one or t-wo pairs of 

 gmall lanceolate leaflets. E. B. t. 1591. 



Woods in Scotland. 1/.. 6, 7. — It is peculiar to the Pyrenees, 

 but much cultivated in gardens ; and the seeds are easily transported 

 by the wind. 



3. Fedia VaJiL Corn- Salad. 



- Cor. gibbous at the base; the limb 5 -cleft. Stam.2—2. Caps. 

 crowned with unequal teeth, indehiscent, 3-celled, 1-seeded; 

 2 cells abortive or empty, rarely confluent. (Limb of cor. equal, 

 and stem. 3 in all the British species.) — Name given by Adan- 



fedus (tl 



a kid^ on account of the smell. 



* Fertile cell of fruit with a corhj mass at the back, 



*-^. F, olitoria Vahl (common C, or Lamb's Lettuce); fruit 

 laterally compressed oblique crowned with the 3 obscure in- 

 flexed teeth of the calyx, fertile cell corky at the back, sterile 

 ones usually confluent^ flowers capitate, bracteas leafy ciliato- 

 dentate. Valeriana Locusta L.: E. B. t. 811. 



Stem 

 Root- 



Banks and corn-fields, especially in a light soil. 0. 4 — G. 

 3 inches to a foot high, dichotomous, more or less rough, 

 leaves spathulate; those of the stem oblong, obtuse, entire or the 

 upper ones a little toothed. Flowers pale blue, or rarely white, in 

 terminal compact heads, at the base of which are linear-oblong often 



Frequently cultivated 



as a salad. 



divided hracteas forming a kind of involucre. 



** 



Fertile cell not corky at the hack* 

 f Empty cells conspicuous contiguous, 



2. F. carindta Stev. (carinated C.) ; capsule, oblong with a 

 wide usually concave groove in front glabrous crowned with 

 the short straight bluntish limb of the calyx, the two empty 

 cells thin and incurved at the edo^e, cynies capitate. E. B. S. 

 t. 2810. ° -^ 



Church Stretton, 

 ham. 



Shropshire ; and between Gresford and Wrex 

 Jersey. ©. 4—6. 



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