VALERIANA. 



roundifh-ovate leaflets, furniflied with one or two broad 

 blunt teeth at each fide ; the odd one much more elongated 

 and narrower. Branches of the panicle compound, corym- 

 bofe. Sced-croivn of ten feathery rays. 



25. V. virgata. Many-twig'd Valerian. " Fl. Peruv. 



V. 1.42. t. 66. {. i." Vahl n. 23 Leaves pinnate; 



leaflets cloven or three-cleft, with linear fegments. Branches 

 of the corymb forked. — Native of precipices in Peru. 

 Smooth, with the habit of Tagetes niinuta. Stem rather 

 fhrubby, three feet high, much branched, fquare, ftriated, 

 fcarcely hollow, obfcurely downy ; the branches upright 

 aiid wand-hke. Leaflets minute ; fome undivided ; others 

 with two, three, or four, linear, emarginate or entire, feg- 

 ments ; (hilling on the upper fide. Partial Jloiuer-Jlalks 

 forked, with oppofite linear lra3eas. Floivers feffile in the 

 forks. Seeds itriated on one fide, gibbous on the other. 

 Vahl. 



26. V. montana. Mountain Valerian. Linn. Sp. PI. 45. 

 Willd- n. 9. Vahl n. 24. Ait. n. 8. Jacq. Auftr. t. 269. 

 (V. alpina, fcrophularire foHo ; Bauh. Prodr. 87.) — Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, fimple, unequally tootiied ; the lower ones 

 ftalked ; upper pointed. Stem fimple, rather downy. 

 — Not very uncommon in ftony ground, on the alps of 

 Switzerland, the Grifons, Germany, and the Pyrenees, 

 flowering in July and Auguft. The root is long, creeping, 

 perennial, with a flight degree of the flavour belonging to 

 this genus. Stems a foot high, more or Icfs, afcending, 

 leafy, unbranched. Radical leaves on long ftalks, heart- 

 fhaped or fpatulate, acute, fmooth, an inch or two in length, 

 with various broad, (hallow, wavy teeth ; the reft more 

 oblong and pointed, on fhort ftalks. Floivers numerous, 

 corymbofe, fmall, pale flefli-coloured. 



27. V. intermedia. Ambiguous Valerian. Vahl n. 25. 

 — " Leaves fimple, nearly entire ; the lowermoft oblong- 

 heartfliaped; uppermoft lanceolate ; three pair on the ftem." 

 — Brought from the Pyrenees by Mr. Hornemann. Akin 

 to the laft, though the leaves being not heart-fhaped, nor 

 toothed, as in that, but lanceolate and entire, induced 

 profeflbr Vahl to efteem it diftinft. 



28. V. trij>teris. Three-leaved Valerian. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 45. Willd. n. 8. Vahl n. 26. Ait. n. 7. Jacq. Auftr. 

 t. 268. (V. alpina prima ; Bauh. Prodr. 86. V. alpina 

 faxatilis minor, flore albo ; Barrel. Ic. t. 742. V. al- 

 pina minor, et minima; Pluk. Phyt. t. 231. f. 7, 8.) — 

 Leaves toothed ; the radical ones heart-fhaped, fimple ; 

 thofe of the ftem ternate, ovate-oblong ; their lateral 

 leaflets lanceolate. — Found on the alps of Auftria and 

 Sv/itzerland, intermixed with V. montana, but flowering 

 a little earlier, and the Jlotuers are more generally white. 

 Nevertheleis, thefe two fpecies are fo very nearly akin, 

 that we could almoft fufpedl them to be varieties of each 

 other, and that Vahl's intermedia may belong to one and 

 the fame fpecies. 



29. V. •villofa. Downy Valerian. Thunb. Jap. 32. t. 6. 



Willd. n. 18. Vahl n. 27 Stamens four. Corolla equal. 



Leaves denfely downy ; the radical ones auricled ; floral 

 ones toothed. — Native of various places in Japan, flowering 

 in September and Oftober. The root appears to be peren- 

 nial. Whole herb denfely downy or hairy, a fpan high, 

 unbranched. Leaves all toothed ; the radical ones ftalked, 

 oval, near two inches long, with a pair of much fmaller 

 confluent auricles. Panicle corymbofe, forked. Flowers 

 yellow. Willdenow refers this fpecies, like V.Jtbirica, to 

 the Fedia, but Vahl makes it a Valeriana. Having feen no 

 fpecimen, we are unable to form a decided opinion, the fruit 

 rot having been noticed by Thunberg, whofe figure and de- 

 fcriptioti are our only authority. 



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30. V. pyrenaica. Heart-leaved Valerian. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 46. Willd. n. 14. Vahl n. 28. Don. Herb. Bnt. 

 fafc.4. 77. Sm. Compend. ed. 2. 8. Engl. Bot. t. 1591. 

 (V. maxima, cacalise folio ; Pluk. Phyt. t. 232. f. I. V. 

 canadenfis ; Rivin. Monop. Irr. t. 4. ) — Stem-leaves heart- 

 fliaped, ferrated, all ftalked ; the upper ones pinnate or 

 ternate. — Native of the Pyrenees, and of Scotland ; having 

 been found by the late Mr. George Don, about ditches and 

 walls at Blair- Adam, Kinrofslhire, and fubfequently near 

 Glafgow and Edinburgh, flowering in June. Dr. Brown 

 of Glafgow has alfo met with this plant in feveral woods of 

 the fouth of Scotland, widely feparated from each other. 

 It is perennial, from three to five feet high, of a ftout habit, 

 and dark green hue, nearly fmooth, poflefling the fmell, 

 probably the virtues, of V. ojflcinal'is, Diofcoridis, &c. Stem 

 downy about the fummit, as are the u^per foot/lalks all over. 

 Leaves lar^e, with copious, unequal, tooth-like ferratures ; 

 the radical ones, fometimes the others, fimple ; but for the 

 moft part the ftem-leaves bear one or two pair of fmall lan- 

 ceolate leaflets on their ftalks. Flowers rofe-coloured, in a 

 denfe, large, compound, terminal corymb. Spur obfolete. 

 Stamens three. 



31. V. alliarixfolia. Garlick-muftard-leaved Valerian. 

 Vahl n. 29. (V. orientalis, alliarise folio, flore albo ; 

 Tourn. Cor. 6. Buxb. Cent. 2. 19. t. 11.) — Leaves 

 heart-fliaped, unequally toothed, all fimple ; the upper ones 

 feflile. — Gathered by Tournefort in Cappadocia. Diftin- 

 guifhed from the laft, with which Linnseus confounded it, 

 by being perfcftly fmooth, with thinner leaves, befides what 

 is expreffed in the fpecific definition. V.ihl examined Tour- 

 nefort's original fpecimens. The Jlowers arc white. 



32. V. lapathifoUa. Dock-leaved Valerian. Vahl n. 30. 

 — " Leaves heartfliapcd-ovate, undivided, nearly entire ; 

 the upper ones feflile." — Gathered by Commerfon, in the 

 ftraits of Magellan. Root perennial. Stem a foot or more 

 in height, as thick as a goofe-quill, ftriated, fmooth. 

 Leaves three inches long, gradually fmaller upward, acute, 

 entire, or fometimes flightly crenate, ribbed, obfcurely 

 veined, fmooth, except the upper fide of the ribs ; thofe at 

 the root, and lower part of the ftem, ftalked ; upper pair 

 feflile ; loweft floral leaves linear, obtufe, fringed at the 

 bafe. Floiver-Jlalls corymbofe ; the axillary ones oppofite, 

 of few flowers ; terminal ones three-forked, many-flowered. 

 Stamens three. Vahl. We find no fpecimen of this fpecies 

 among the large communications of M. Thouin to the 

 younger Linnaeus. 



33. V. carnoja. Flefliy-leaved Valerian, Sm. Plant. Ic. 

 t.52. Willd. n. 22. Vahl n. 31. ( V. magellanica ; La- 

 marck lUuftr. V. I. 93.) — Leaves oval, toothed, flefliy, glau- 

 cous ; the radical ones on long ftalks — Gathered by Com- 

 merfon, in the ftraits of Magellan. Stems about a foot 

 high, etcft, fimple, fmooth. Leaves all, according to Com- 

 merfon, thick, fucculent and glaucous ; radical ones ob- 

 tufe, an inch or inch and half long, with broad unequal 

 teeth J tapering at the bafe, into a footjlali twice or thrice 

 their own length ; ftem-leaves about three pair, much 

 fmaller, nearly feflile. Flowers purple, nearly regular, 

 triandrous, in fmall, denfe, level-topped corymbs. Seed 

 crowned with teeth, rather than with feathery down ; fo far 

 at leaft as we can judge from our fpecimens. It is not im- 

 poflible that this fpecies may be a Fedia, as Willdenow 

 makes it ; though the feed, like that of Fedia (or Vale- 

 riana) Cornucopia', refembles true Valerians. Indeed our 

 carnofa and polyjlachya appear to form, through V. Cor- 

 vucopiiz, the connefting links of thefe two genera. 



34. V. tuberofa. Tuberous-rooted Valerian. Linn. Sp. 

 PI.46. Willd. n. II. Vahl n. 32. Ait. n. 10. (Nar- 



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