DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 379 
Uvularia perfolidta.—Perfoliate Bell-wort.—A plant, 
about one foot high. Stem smooth, round, running 
through the leaves, furnishing a good example of the per- 
foliate leaves. Flowers pendulous, pale-yellow, in May; 
perennial. 
U. grandifiéra. — Large-flowered Bell-wort. — Similar 
to the foregoing, but larger; the leaves narrower, the 
flowers brighter yellow and smooth inside. This is one 
of the prettiest of the genus, and worth cultivating ; 
hardy perennial. 
VALERIANA,—Vaternn. 
{Name from valere, to have efficacy, on account of its medicinal qualities.1 
The species are generally ornamental garden plants of 
easy culture in common earth, and preferring a shady, 
moist situation. 
Valeridna dioica, has usually the stamens and pistils in 
separate flowers, situated on different plants. This spe- 
cies, and V. officinalis, are medicinal. Cats are delighted 
with the roots, and rat-catchers employ them as they do 
the oil of anise, to draw rats together. 
V. Phu.—Garden Valerian.—This is an esteemed bor- 
der-flower; perennial; growing to the height of three 
or four feet, with large corymbs of white flowers; highly 
fragant ; more cultivated for that property than for their 
beauty. 
V. Pyrendica.—This is a handsome species with umbels 
of light-red flowers, growing about three feet high, 
VERBASCUM.—Moitex. 
(An alteration of the Latin barbascum.] 
Verbascum Thapsus.— Common Mullein.— No doubt, 
this species will be considered by many as hardly orna- 
mental. Everybody knows this tall and very common 
