VALERIAN FAMILY. Valerianaceae. 
crimson dots on each side of the lowest lobe, three dark 
brown anthers, and a calyx without a border. This is 
rather pretty, growing in long grass in damp places, but 
the flowers are too small to be effective. 
There are many kinds of Valerian, rather tall perennials, 
chiefly of cool regions and some in the Andes. They are 
more or less bad-smelling plants, especially the root; the 
leaves mostly from the base and the small flowers in 
terminal clusters, some of them perfect, some with stamens 
and pistils on separate plants, some with the two sorts 
mixed; the calyx with from five to fifteen bristle-like teeth, 
curled up and inconspicuous in flower, but spread out and 
feathery in fruit; the corolla white cr pink, more or less 
funnel-form, with five nearly equal lobes; the stamens 
three; the style sometimes with three minute lobes. The 
name is from the Latin, meaning ‘‘strong,”’ in allusion to 
the medicinal properties. 
ares ee A very handsome and attractive plant, 
ae much like the kind that is cultivated in 
sitchénsis gardens. It grows from one to three feet 
White, pinkish tall, from a creeping rootstock, with 
Sopa smooth, juicy, hollow stems and handsome 
Wash., Oreg. . . : 
bright green foliage. The leaves are 
smooth and the leaflets of the stem-leaves are coarsely 
toothed. The flowers are white or pinkish, with pink 
buds, and are crowded in fine large, rather flat-topped 
clusters. The stamens are long and give a pretty feathery 
appearance to the cluster. The flowers are strongly sweet- 
scented, but the roots usually have a horrible smell when 
they are broken. V. sylvdtica looks much the same, but 
the leaves are mostly toothless, and it is widely distributed 
in the United States, both East and West, also growing in 
Asia. Both are woodland plants, liking rich moist soil. 
An attractive plant, from three to nine 
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eee Oe See inches tall, with smooth hollow stems, 
Valeridna 
Arizonica smooth leaves, and pretty clusters of 
Pink flowers, but not nearly so large as the last. 
rowmes They are purplish-pink and slightly sweet- 
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scented. This grows in crevices in the 
rocks in moist places. 
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