VALERIAN FAIMILY 



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I. Valeriana (Valerian). — Flowers in corymbose, capitate, or 

 panicled cymes, with bradeoles, sometimes sub-dicecious ; pappuj 

 deciduous; corolla generally monosymmetric with an obconic 

 tube, pouched at its base. (Name said to be from the Latin 

 vdleo, I am well, from its inedicinal viitue.) 



1. r. dioica (Small 

 Marsh A'alerian). — • 

 Erect, u n b r a n c h e d , 

 about a foot high with 

 runners ; radical leaves 

 stalked, ovate ; cauline 

 leaves pinnatifid, with a 

 large terminal lobe ; 

 flowers pinlxish, in a ter- 

 minal corymbose cyme ; 

 stamens and ovaries on 

 different plants, the 

 latter in smaller, more 

 crowded, deeper col- 

 oured flowers. — Marshy 

 ground ; frequent. — Fl 

 May, June. Perennial. 



2. V. officiiidUs (Great 

 Wild Vaierian).- Much 

 taller and stouter than 

 the last, but resembling 

 it in habit and in the 

 colour and smell of the 

 flowers ; with suckers ; 

 leaves all pinnate, of 13 

 — 21 leaflets, which are 

 lanceolate, dentate. — 

 Damp places ; not com- 

 mon. This is the 

 species used in medi- 

 cine, and the roots of 

 which are so attractive 



to cat.s, and, it is said, also to rats.— Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



,V r. sambucijolia (Elder-leaved A'alerian). — Diflers mainly in 

 having runners and fewer (9 — 13), broader leaflets. 



4.*''f. pyre:idica (Heart-leaved Valerian).— A large, coarse 

 plant, with' very large, stalked, cordate, serrate haves, some- 

 times occurring naturalised in plantations.— Fl. June, July. 

 Perennial. 



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