valp;rian'e.-e 



*2. Kextuaniiii '^ (Spur-A'alerian).^Glabrous, leafy plants; 

 ftmi'ers in terminal, [lanicled cymes, bracteolate; pappus deciduous ; 

 curolla with 5 unequal lobes, a lon^L; compressed tube, and a 

 spur. (Name from the Greek kentraii, a spur, aiitlios, a flower.) 

 1.* K. ruber (Red SpurA'alerian). — (llaucous, 1 — 2 feet high ; 

 haves entire, ovate, acute ; floieers crimson, deep rose-red, or 

 white. — Chalk-pits, raihvay-banks, limestone-quarries, and old 

 garden-walls ; common, but not indigenous. A very handsome 

 garden plant. — Fl. June — September. I'erennial. 



2r K. Cahilrapa, differing 

 chiefly in having pinnatifid 

 eauliiw leaves, occurs as a 

 garden escape at Eltham, Kent. 



^^ tf 3""^^^ 3- V.'\I,ERIANELL.'\. (Com- 



■'^''■^" '^ salad).— Small plants, repeat- 



edly forked ; leaves simple ; 

 flowers minute, solitary or in 

 crowded bracteate cymes in 

 the forks of the branches ; 

 calyx igenerally distinguishable 

 as teeth on the fruit ; corolla 5- 

 lobed, obconic, polysymmetric ; 

 p-uil .generally of 2 empty 

 barren and i fertile (i -seeded) 

 chambers. (Name, a diminu- 

 tive of I'aleruina.) 



I . I . olitoria (Common 

 Corn-salad, Lamb's Lettuce). 

 — Sniooth, flaccid, brittle, 

 4 — 12 in. liigh ; /p(Vji« long and 

 narrow, a little toothed near 

 the liase, the upper ones clasp- 

 ing the stem ; floicers very 

 minute, pale lilac, in dense terniinal leafy heads; the fertile 

 chamber of the ovary thick and corky at the back, crowned by 

 the 3 calyx-teetli .---Cornhelds ; common. It is sometimes 

 cultivated as a salad. — Id. May, |une. .\nnual. 



2.* I . enocdrpa (Woolly-fruited ( Yirn-salad), differing in 

 having a hairy /rail, crowned by a large, nearly regular, campanu- 

 late ccdyx, ami with its fertile chamber not corky, occurs 

 occasionally, but is not native, —h'i. |une. Annual. 



3.* r. curiudia Keeled-fruited Corn-salad), differing in its 

 blue flowers and oblong, boat-shaped jruit, crowned by i sepal, 

 with its fertile chamber not corky and -tlie two barren ones in- 



