Fedia.] valerianace^. 243 



Tube of the corolla hairy within. Flowers white, with a faint tinge of rose- 

 colour. 



2. Y.dioica,!^. Small Marsh Valerian. " Flowers imperfectly 

 dioecious, root-leaves ovate-spathulate stalked, those of the stem 

 lyrate-pinnatifid, fruit glabrous." — Br. Fl. p. 192. E. B. t. 628. 



In marshy or bojrgy meadows, but rarely, i^^. May, June. 2^. 



E. Med. — By a small stream at the West end of Briddlesford heath. 



W. Med.— A.t Freshwater gate, with Aspidium Thelypteris, in a very deep bog, 

 apparently composed chiefly of comminuted shells ; rather plentifully. In some 

 wet meadows near Thorley, Rev. James Penfold .'.'.' 



III. Fedia, Vahl. Corn-salad. 



" Corolla gibbous at the base ; the limb 5-cleft. Stamens 2 — 3. 

 Capsule crowned with unequal teeth, indeliiscent, 3-celled, 1- 

 seeded ; 2 cells abortive or empty, rarely confluent. {Limb of 

 corolla equal, and stamens 3 ia all the British species)." — Br. Fl. 



1. F. olitoria, Vahl. Common Corn-salad. Lamb's Lettuce. 

 " Fruit laterally compressed oblique crowned with the 3 obscure 

 inflexed teeth of the calyx, fertile cell corky at the back, sterile 

 ones usually confluent, flowers capitate, bracteas leafy ciliato-den- 

 tate."— Br. Fl. p. 193. Valeriana Locusta, L. : E. B. t. 811. 



0. Flowers white. 



In light cultivated ground, cornfields, waste places, pastures, and on banks ; 

 common. Fl. April — June. 0. 



On the Dover ; in Turner's nursery, &c., Ryde. 

 |8. In a field near Shanklin. 



Ohs. — F. carinata, Lois., which is abundant in Normandy and in the Channel 

 Islands, will probably be found here also, but its great resemblance to F. olitoria, 

 from which it is scarcely distinguishable but by its fruit, renders its detection less 

 easy. M. de St. Amans, in his ' Flore d'Agen,' makes them varieties, and says 

 he has found the fruit of both on the same plant. I incline to the belief that F. 

 cannata holds the same relation to F. olitoria as F. Auricula does to F. dentata, 

 and that the value of each as distinct species is, to say the least, very problema- 

 tical. 



2. F. Auricula, DC. Sharp-fruited Corn-salad. " Capsule 

 ovate acuminated with a narrow groove in front glabrous crowned 

 vidth the single entire or 3-limbed tooth of the calyx, empty cells 

 rounded at tliQ back larger than the fertile one, cymes lax." — Br. 

 Fl. p. 193. E. B. Suppl. t. 2809. M. et K. Rohl. Deutschl. Fl. 

 Gaud. Fl. Helv. i. p. 84, t. 1 (bene). Curt. Br.Entom. xiv. t. and 

 folio 668. 



In cultivated fields, amongst corn, in various places, but rather less frequent 

 than the next species, of which I more than suspect it to be merely a variety. Fl. 

 June, July. 0. 



E. Med. — Cornfield by Anthony's common, near Ryde, abundantly. Corn- 

 fields about Haven-street. [Very frequent at Bembridge, A. G. More, Esq., 

 Edrs.] 



W. 71/erf.— Cornfields about Freshwater, Yarmouth, &c. Not unfrequent about 

 Cowes. 



