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^2S. St. 9. — St. a foot or more in height, simple. Fl, flesh- 

 coloured ; rather large with protruded stam. when barren ; or 

 small with included stamens and forming a closer coiymb when 

 fertile. Stoloniferous. — Boggy places. P. V. "VI. E, S. 



3. Valekianel'la Moench. 



* Fruit with 2 barren cells, fertile cell corhy on the back. 



1. V. olitdria (iSIoench) ; fr. compressed oblique, barren cells 

 without furrows, dissepiment incomplete, bracts ciliate. — J5. B. 

 611. St. 2. .3. R. xii. 708.— About Q in. high. L. ovate- 

 spathulate, upper ones narrower. Fl. in terminal dense cymes 

 with oblong linear opposite bracts. Fr. 8-celled ; 1 ceU fertile 

 with its back formed of a thick gibbous spongy mass usually 

 traversed by one furrow, separated by a groove on each sidje 

 from 2 barren slightly confluent cells each having a slender rib 

 on its side and their junction marked by a slight furrow.— 

 Corn-fields and banks. A. V. VI. Corn-Salad. E. S. I. 



** Fruit voith 2 barren conspicuous cells, fertile cell not corTty. 



J2. V. carindta (Loiael.) ; fr. oblong boatshaped crowned with 

 1 straight tooth, cells nearly equal each with a single rib on the 

 back, barren cells contiguous in their whole length and with a 

 deep furrow between them, fl. in dense cymes. — E. S. S. 2810. 

 J?, xii. 708. — About 6 in. high. Fl. pale blue. Root-l.,8pathu- 

 late, st-1. oblong. Bracts ciliate. Section of the fr. crescent- 

 shaped. — Hedge-banks, rare. A. IV. — VI. Lambs' Lettuct. 



E. S, 



3, V. Aurio'ula (DC.) ; fr. subglobose crowned with 1 erect 

 membranous leaf, barren cells larger than the fertile mie inflated 

 contiguous having a narrow furrow between them, fl. scattered. 

 —F. B. S. 2809. V. dentata DC, E. xii. 709.— About a foot 

 high. Fl. distant, in the forks of a repeatedly forked cyme. 

 Lower 1. obovate attenuate downwards, upper 1. oblong. Bracts 

 ciliate. Section of the fruit nearly round. Crown of one 

 oblong-blunt obliquely truncate tooth, sometimes with a min ute 

 tooth on each side ; or of 3 acute teeth, of which one is much 

 the longest and often 3-pointed. — Cultivated land. A. "\'ri. 

 vm. E. S. I. 



*** Barren cells 0, or reduced to a rib. 



4. V. dentata (Deitr.) ; fr. oval crowned with the small oblique 

 unequally 4-toothed calyx flat in front toith a space enclosed be- 

 tween 2 elevated curved ribs convex behind, cyme lax spreading 

 its branches long divaricate. — E. B. 1370. B. xii. 710. f . 



