VALERIAN FAMILY 61 
2. Valerianella carinata Loisel. Corn Salad. Fig. 5061. 
Valerianella carinata Loisel. Not. Pl. Fr. 149. 1810. 
Valerianella praecox Willk. Linnaea 30: 104. 1859. 
Slender erect annual, 1-2 dm. high, simple below, once to thrice dichotomously forked above, 
glabrous to more or less puber ulent, especially on the lower nodes and leaf-bases, the hairs some- 
what reflexed. Basal leaves spatulate, 1-2 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide: upper stem-leaves linear- 
oblong, 1-2 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, ihc entire or cep and obscurely denticulate ; peduncles 
slender, 1 . long; cymes yor te, mm. bro ract eg . 
linear, 3-4 long, ciliate on the margins; corolla light ies +3 pin ; fru 
about 2 mm. ae and barely half as rsiont ae scent, not navopiate, the fertile cell. fattened, the 
margins of the empty cells incurved, form a broad dee 
Locally adventive on shady banks and eens Niagne and aie Ciuntiia: California, and Marion and 
Clackamas Counties, Creata. April-May 
3. PLECTRITIS* DC. Prod. 4: 631. 1830. 
Usually ieee annual, tage herbs with opposite, oblong to ovate leaves. In- 
floréscences thyrsiform, dens ely to loosely capitate or verticillate to spiciform; bracts 
linear, fused i a a multifid structure. Calyx reduced to a narrow ring. Corolla subcam- 
eer ie to narrowly infundibuliform, white to deep pink, occasionally with spots of dark 
red at the base of the midventral lobe, strongly bilabiate to gcse y regular, the tube 
spurred or merely gibbous. Stamens 3, exserted to include til inferior, 1-celled, the 
stigma bifid, rarely trifid. Fruit pale straw-yellow to dar -brown, vernicose to dull, 
usually more or less pubescent, dorsally keeled, the ventral geet with glands eo in 2 
longitudinal rows near the base of the wings or as 2 prominent mammillae: wings con- 
nivent or spreading, often obsolete, occasionally with glands on the dorsal surface o spose 
those on the ventral surface. Cotyledons accumbent or incumbent. [Name from the Greek, 
plectron, meaning a spur. ] 
A genus of 3 species in the Pacific States, formerly er into many species because of the extreme varia- 
tion of the fruits. Type species, Il” Cierienctia congesta Lindley 
oe pale to medium pink, bilabilate, funnelform, spur usually less than one-third the length of the corolla 
r obsolete; fruit keeled, the keel rarely grooved, acutely angled (with prominent veins) or smoothly 
punsed (with pronounce ed vacuities between the walls of the fruit and the embryo), winged or wingless, 
th oes thin and thin ae pie caer sa pgp ye flexible, evenly tapered, and more or less 
Pic gesta. 
ae ger and essentially regular to light red and strongly bilabiate, tubular or somewhat fadlaitocen, spurred, 
e spur tem more than one-third the length of the corolla; fruit heeled: the keel often with a dorsal 
roove, obtusely angled, raves with visible. areal hina Boies ged or essentially wingless, the wings stiff 
robe often eed the +H ap Pome ype ir ight often groo Pigs cellent the trichomes stiffly clavate, cylin- 
drical, glandular- cylindrical or lor d ‘curly; coty ledoks incumbent, silvery green, with secondary 
and tertiary veins promine m~ on oraiinalinen 
Corolla carne ty regular, white pal le oe: ink, usually without red spots at the base of the igo lip, 
stout and 
with a stout clav. fruit with the bs ggeror ie and Lege or more or less nar- 
rowly cylindrical and ashes tipped, sometimes long and curly, the kee! Hobe 2 brush- like rows 
of hairs, the ventral surface often with a multiseriate row oe hairs along the m a 
Corolla strongly eed Lone to light red, usually with 2 red spots he base of the ventral lip. sender 
and with a ; fruit wi — the trichomes stout, Sint ical = rarely subclavate, never lon 
curl. "the ve gp ag with 2 brush-like rows of hairs, the ventral surface usually lac ing a es 
seriate row of hairs along the eae ib. 3. P. cihosa. 
1. Plectritis congésta (Lindl.) DC. Pink Plectritis. Fig. 5062. 
Valerianell. gesta Lindl. Bot. Reg. 13: pl. 1094. 1827. 
Plectriti. ta DC. Prod. 4: 631. 1830. 
Plectritis congesta B minor H ook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 291. 1833. 
Plectritis bt Suksd eut: Bot. Monatss. 14: 119. 1896. 
h. 
lectr istiraceme losa Gandoger, eee Soc. Bot. Fr. 65: 35. 1918. 
Plectritis ape Gandoger, loc 
Plants 1.5-6.0 dm. ta i, = Leaves obovate ne ovate, pero e below to sessile or amplexi- 
aule above, entire a submuc nate or inflor 3 : 
vertisiatt-¢ spiciform ; corolla fale pink to pink, s beau sh ate to infundibuliform, 4.5-9. : 
long, strongly bilabi ate "be dorsal lobes fused did extended, the ventral free and patent, the spur 
short to obsolescent, the tip usually conspicuously expanded ; fruit wn, 2.0-4.5 
ly pubescent, the al reo gradually and evenly attenuated to a thin point, the 
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walls thin and readily colla 
sharply angled, acute, very slightly eiented dorsally, smooth, or with 1-3 prominent veins, vari- 
ously pube or labrous, casionally with 1 to pbs glands at the wing-roots ; ventral wall 
r: present bo ngitu rows n 
i : psed on drying; fertile cell strongly Pion deeper than broad; keel 
th i 
: broad f 
ally strongly spreading above; cotyledons accumbent, veins above the first order 
inconspicuous when expanded. 
*This treatment is based largely on the recently published work of Dennison Harlow Morey, Jr. 
