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In Peru AstrepMa chcerophylloides ' and coarctata * are indicated as 

 antispasmodic and vulnerary. Valerianella, the leaves of whicli are 

 generally soft and insipid, is scarcely used except as a potherb, 

 particularly V. olitona,^ and secondarily V. coronata,* eriocarpa,^ cari- 

 nata,^ Auricula,^ dentata,^ Morisonii,^ and samolifolia Bert, from Chili. 

 The Valerianacece cultivated as ornamental are Gentranthus, Valeriana, 

 Fedia and Patrinia. Gentranthus ruber and angustifolius, chiefly the 

 former, are considered of southern origin, but have become naturalized 

 not only in the north of the continent, but even in England, where 

 they. remain on the walls of old edifices. 



1 DuFK. ex DC. Prodr. iv. 629, n. 1.— 7. chie- 

 rophylloides Sm. — F. laciniata E. et Pat. Fl, 

 Per. i. t. 69, fig. a. 



2 DupR. VaUr. 60. With. De Candolle, it is 

 a. Valeriana. 



3 McBifCH. Meth. 493. — DC. Prodr. iv. 625, n. 

 1. — Gb. et GoDH. Fl. de Fr. ii. 58. — Fedia olito- 

 ria Vahl. — F. Locusta Keichb. — T. olitoria W. 

 Spec. i. 182 {Lamb's lettuce, Pr. Mache, Ger. 

 Aeiersalat). 



* DC. Fl. Fr. n. 2333 ; Prodr. n. 20.— Gr. et 

 Gonii. Fl.. de Fr. ii. 65. — V. hamata Bast. — 

 Fedia sicula Guss. — F. coronata Vahl. — T. coro- 

 nata W. (Mdche d' Italic, M. couvonn^e). 



'Desvx. Journ. Bot. ii. 314, t. 11, fig. 2.— 

 DC. Prodr. n. 9. — Fedia eriocarpa Kcem. et Son. 

 — F. eampanulata Presl. — F. rugulosa Stet. 



« LoiSBL. Not. 149.— DC. Prodr. n. %Z.— Fedia 

 carinata Stet. 



7 DC. Fl. Fr. Suppl. 492; Not. Valer. t. 3, 

 fig. 6; Prodr. n. 14. — Fedia olitoria Gm&ts. 

 (Oreillette). 



» DO. Fl. Fr. n. 3331 ; Prodr. n. 15.— F. den- 

 tata W. — Fedia dentata Tahl. Enum. ii. 20. 



• DC. Prodr. n. 11. — Fedia dentata Biee.— i!". 

 dasycarpa Stev. Mem. Mose, v. 318.— J. Mori' 

 sonii Spueno. Pugill. i. 4. 



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