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3. VAiERiANBL'iA Moench. 

 * Fruit witli 2 barren oeUs, fertile cell corky on the back. 



1. V. olttdria (Moeneh) ; fri compressed obliq^ue, barren cells 

 ■witliout furrows, dissepiment incomplete, bracts ciliate. — St. 2. 3. 

 M. xii. 708. Fedia Sm. — ^About 6 in. high. L. 0¥ate-8pathulate, 

 upper ones narrower. Fl. in terminal dense cymes with oblong 

 linear opposite bracts. Fr. 3-celled; 1 fertile with its back 

 formed of a thick gibbous spongy mass usually traversed by one 

 fuiTOw; a groove on each side sepbratesit from 2 barren slightly 

 confluent cells each having a lender rib on its side aiid their 

 junction marked by a slight , fvirrqw. — Corn-fields and banks. 

 A. V. Vl. Corn Salad. E. S. I. 



** Fruit ujith 2 barren conspicuous cells', fertile cell not corky. 



,J2. V. carinata (Loisel.) ; fr. oblong boatshaped crownei with 

 1 straight tooth, ceUs nearly equal each ^v^th a single rib on the 

 back, barren cells contiguous in their whole length and with a 

 deep furrow between them, fl. in dense cvmes. — Fedia F. S. S. 

 2810. R. xii. 708.— About 6 in., hig-h... Fl. pale blue. Eoot-1. 

 spathidate, st.-l. oblong. Bracts ciliate. Section of the fr. 

 crescent-shaped. — Hedge-banks, rare. . A. IV. — ^VI. Lambs' 

 Lettuce. E. S. 



3. V. Auric'ula (DC.) ;' fr. siibglobose crowned with 1 erect 

 membranous leaf, barren cells larger than the fertile on^ inflated 

 contiguous having a narrow furrow between them, :fl. scattered. 

 —Fedia F. B: S. 2809. V. dentataDC, B. xii. 709.^About a 

 foot high. Fl. distant, in the forks of a repeatedly forked cyme. 

 Lower 1. obovate attenuate downwards, upper 1. oblong. Bracts 

 cUiate. Section of the fruit nearly round Crown of one oblong 

 blunt obliquely truncate tooth, sometimes with a minute tooth 

 on each side ; or of 3 acute' teeth, of which ene is much the 

 lons-est and often 3-pointed; — Cultivated land. A. VII. Vni. 



E. 8.1. 

 *** Ban-en cells 0, or reduced to a rib. 



4. V. denidta (Deitr.) ; fr. oval crowned with the small oblique 

 unequally 4-toothed calyx flat in front with a space enclosed be- 

 tween 2 elevated curved ribs convex behind, cyme lax spreading 

 its branches long divaricate.^-'i^eiiia Sm. S. xii. 710. V. 

 Morisonii DC. — Teeth of. the crown spreading or all incurved 

 except the largest. Fr. smooth or hairy. Fl. corymbose. — 

 Corn-fields and banks. A. VI. VII.. • - E.S.I. 



[ V. eriocar'pa (Desv.) ; fr. pilose crovsmed with the large 

 toothed open nearly regular rather obliquely truncate net-veined 

 calyx ; otherwise like V. dentata. — B. xii. 712. Coss. Atl. 24 e. 



