178 43. VALEKIANACEJB. 



628. St. 9.— St. a foot or more in height, simple. Fl. flesh- 

 coloured ; rather large with protruded stam. -wnen barren ; or 

 small with included stamens and forming a closer corymb when 

 fertile. Stoloniferous. — Boggy places. P. V. VI. E. S. 



2. Valeeianbl'la Moench. 



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



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

 without furrows, dissepiment incomplete, bracts ciliate. — E. B. 

 811. St. 2. 3. -ffi. xii. 708.— About 6 in. high. L. ovate- 

 spathulate, upper ones narrower. Fl. in terminal dense cymes 

 with oblong linear opposite bracts. Fr. 3-oelled ; 1 cell fertile 

 with its back formed of a thick gibbous spongy mass usually 

 traversed by one furrow, separated by a groove on each side 

 from 2 barren slightly confluent cells each having a slender rib 

 on its side and their junction marked by a slight furrow. — 

 Oorn-fields and banks. A. V. VI. Cm-n-Salad. E. S. I. 



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



%2. V^ carindta (Loisel.) ; fr. obloiig bootshaped 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. — F. B. S. 2810. 

 R. xii. 708. — About 6 in. high. Fl. pale blue. Eoot-1. spalhu- 

 late, st.-l. oblong. Bracts ciliate. Fr.-section crescent^shaped. 

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



8. V. Auric'ula (DC.) ; fr. subglobose crowned with 1 erect 

 membranous leaf, barren cells larger than the fertile ones inflatea 

 contiguous having a nai'row furrow between them, fl. scattered. , 

 —E. B. S. 2809. r. dentata DC, R. 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 

 ciliate. 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 one is much 

 the longest and often 3-pointed. — Cultivated land. A. VII. 

 VIII. E. S. L 



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



4. V. dentdta (Deitr.) ; /)■. 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. — E. B. 1370. R. xii. 710. V. 



