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XLV. DIPSAOACE.E. 



3. F. Auricula Gaud, {sharp-fruited C.) ; capsule ovate an, 

 mma e, with a narrow groove in front glabrous ciownpH x vi" 

 the single entire or 3-toothed limb of tlie calyx? emptvS' 

 rounded on the back, larger than the fertile o/ef 'cySj 

 a. calyx-limb nearly entire. E. B. S. t. 2809. J/3, calvx^niiib 

 acutely 3-toothed. F. tridentata ,S^.z,. Valerianella dentata SS 



Corn-fields, near Hastings ; near Bourton on the Water • Henh,,.,/ 

 near Bristol ; Devon, Isle of Wight. Jersey. Fifeshire'^Tfl T 

 dulph, Corn^^all: Rev. R. T. Bree. Q. 6-^ 8. -Habit" of the laTt 

 species, for which it is no doubt often passed over- but the fruif' 

 quite different being broader and more inflated, obscurely furrowed 

 in trout, with large empty cells, and crowned with the small limb of 



ft Empty cells distant, ohsolete or reduced to mere ribs. 



4. F. dentdta Vahl? {smooth narrow -jruited C\) • nncjTiT^ 

 ovate flattish and 2-ribbed in front acuminate crowned w'?h the 



-fruited 



prominent oblique unequally toothed calyx, 

 brous, cup of the calyx small very oblique. 

 E. B. t. 1 .^70 Valerianella Morisonii Z)C, 



«• capsule gla- 



Valeriana Sm. : 



, .., ,. . *^^ — '/^* capsule clothed 



rbbn,rt."lixtaT:;^? ^gid _hairs, cup of ^ the cdyx small 



tlT% ^'-Tl^^ VaJil-y. capsule clothed with spreadino- 

 incurved rigid hau's or glabrous, cup of the calyx large, a little 

 oblique. F. enocarpa lioem. et Sch. ° ' 



Cornwall, 

 Fifeshire. 



a. Corn-fields and hedge-banks, not very common 

 ±.ssex, Shropshire, and Cambridgeshire. N. Wales 

 Jersey. — ^ Hedge-banks, near Halesworth, Suffolk \ Yorkshire • 

 Isle of Wight. Fifeshire. _ j. Ormeshead, Caernar^nshire. 0.' 

 ^-^•-Floioers flesh-coloured, usually in panicled cymes. Fruit 

 obpyriform ; convex on the back where is the larger and perfect eel 

 nearly plane in front where are the two abortive cells, and th L a e 

 shrunk so as to form two projecting lines or ribs. The whorfruit 

 isglabrousor nearly so in a. ; in ;3. and usuallv in y. it is clothed 



but Mr. W. Wilson has satisfied us that it is merely a state of 

 his species; Mr. Borrer observes that it has kept hs peculiar 

 abit_ SIX years in his garden. It is quite impossible, from^ Vahf 



des ription, to pronounce whether this or F. Auricula fi. be hi^ i* 



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Ord. XLY. DIPSACACEiE Juss. 



SSto:^^.::^^ ^l ^^ ----^^^^ ^y - -ariose 



Corolla 

 Stamens 



^^jc^ closely investing Jh^ ^ Z^^^IZ 

 with the hmh oblique, with an imbricative a3stivation 

 r^.ifA -a\-''^''"'^- ^^«^^ 1-celled. Style 1, filiform 



Srth^^^ltTr'' ^T^^^^'JA*^^ onependulou^s seed, crowS 

 with the pappus-hke calyx. Albumen fleshy. _ Aloslly herba- 



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