156 43. VALERIANACE. 
dical 1. on long stalks. Fr. narrowed usually from about its mid- 
dle.—Ditches and damp chalky places. P. VI. VII. Valerian. 
2. V. sambucifolia (“ Mikan.”) ; 1. all pinnate, Its. 9—11, den- 
tate-serrate, of the radical 1. ovate acute, of the stem-l. oblong- 
lanceolate, terminal It. not larger than the others, st. sulcate 
solitary, fr. glabrous ovate-attenuate.—V. officinalis Sm., E. B. 
698.—Root with long scions usually not buried. St. 2—4 feet 
high. Term. It. of rt.-l. sometimes slightly larger than the 
others. Fr. narrowing from below its middle. An enormous 
plant, fully 5 ft. high, is found in the Cambridge fens and may 
belong to this species.—Damp places. P. VI. VII. E. 8. 
*3. V. pyrenaica (L.); 1. heartshaped serrate stalked, upper 1. 
with 1—2 pairs of small lanceolate leaflets —E. B. 1591.—St. 
2—3 feet high, furrowed. FI. light rose-coloured.— Woods in 
Scotland. P. VI. VII. E. S$. 
4. V. dioica (L.); fi. imperfectly dicecious, root-l. ovate 
stalked, stem-I. pinnatifid with a large terminal lobe, fr. glabrous. 
—E. B, 628. St. 9—St. 6—12 m. high, simple. Fl. flesh- 
coloured ; rather large with protruded stam., barren; or small 
with included stamens and forming a closer corymb, fertile. Root 
creeping.—Boggy places. P. V. VI. 
3. VALERIANELLA Moench. 
* Fruit with 2 barren cells, fertile cell corky on the back. 
1. V. olitorta (Moench); fr. compressed oblique, barren cells 
without furrows : dissepiment incomplete, bracts ciliated.—E. B. 
811. S¢.2.3. R. Icon. t.60. Fedia Sm.—L. ovate-spathulate, 
upper ones narrower. Fl. in terminal dense cymes with oblong 
linear opposite bracts. Fr. 3-celled; 1 fertile with its back formed 
of a thick gibbous mass of spongy cellular tissue which is usually 
traversed by a smgle furrow, a groove on each side separates it 
from the 2 barren slightly confluent cells each of which has a 
slender rib on its side and their junction marked by a slight fur- 
row.—Corn-fields and banks. A.V. VI. Corn Salad. 
** Fruit with 2 barren conspicuous cells, fertile cell not corky. 
2. V. carinata (Loisel.); 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.—Fedia E. B. S. 
2810. R. Icon. t. 61.—FI. pale blue. Root-l. spathulate, st.-1. 
oblong. Bracts ciliated. Section of the fr. crescent-shaped.— 
Hedge-banks, rare. A.IV.—VI. Lambs’ Lettuce. E. 8. 
