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2 — 3 feet high, furrowed. Fl. light rose-coloured. — ^Woods in 

 Scotland. P. VI. VII. E. S. 



4. V. dioica (L.) ; fl. imperfectly dioecious, root-l. ovate stalked, 

 stem-l. pinnated with a large terminal lohe, fir. glabrous. — E. B. 

 628. St. 9.— St. 6—12 in. high, simple. Fl. flesh-coloured; 

 rather large with protruded stam., barren; or small with in- 

 cluded stamens and forming a closer corymb, fertile. Root creep- 

 ing. — Boggy places. P. V. VI. E. S. 



3. Valerianella Moench. 

 * Fruit with 2 barren cells, fertile cell corky on the back. 



1. V. olitoria (Moench); fr. compressed oblique, barren cells 

 without furrows, dissepiment incomplete, bracts ciliated. — B. B. 

 811. St. 2. 3. R. xii. 708. Fedia Sm.— L. ovate-spathulate, 

 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 mass of spongy cellular tissue which is usually 

 traversed by a single furrow, a groove on each side separates it 

 from the 2 barren slightly confluent cells each of which has a 

 slender rib on its side and their junction marked by a slight fm'- 

 row. — Corn-fields and banks. A. V. VI. Corn Salad. 



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



2. V. carinata (Loisel.) ; fr. oblong boatshaped crowned with 

 1 straight tooth, cells nearly equal each with a single rib on the 

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

 deep furrow between them, fl. in dense cymes. — Fedia E. B. S. 

 2810. R. xii. 708.— Fl. pale blue. Root-l. spathulate, st.-l. 

 oblong. Bracts ciliated. Section of the fr. crescent-shaped. — 

 Hedge-banks, rare. A. IV. — VI. Lambs' Lettuce. E. S. 



3. V. Auricula (DC); fr. subglobose crowned with 1 erect 

 membranous leaf, barren cells larger than the fertile one inflated 

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

 —Fedia E. B. S. 2809. V. dentata DC, R. xii. 709.— Fl. di- 

 stant, in the forks of a repeatedly dichotomous cyme. Lower 1. 

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

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

 obliquely truncate tooth, sometimes with a minute tooth on 

 each side ; or of 3 acute teeth, of which one is much the longest 

 and often 3-pointed. — Cultivated land. A. VII. VIII. 



*** Barren cells 0, or reduced to a rib. 



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

 unequally 4-toothed calyx flat in front with an oblong space 



