VALERIANE^]. 



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and marked on each side with a longi- 

 tudinal furrow. When cut across, the 

 seed will be seen to occupy the centre, 

 with a somewhat corky mass on one side, 

 and an empty cell on the other. 



A native of southern Europe, often 

 cultivated for salad, and now a common 

 weed in waste places and cornfields in 

 central Europe. Not unfrequent in 

 various parts of the British Isles. Fl. 

 spring and summer. 



Fig. 481. 



2. Keeled Cornsalad. Valerianella carinata, Lois. 



(Fig. 482.) 



(Fedia, Eng. Bot. Suppl. 2810.) 



Closely resembles the common C. in 

 everything but the fruit, which is ovoid, 

 not compressed laterally, but rather from 

 front to back, without any corky mass 

 at the back of the seed, and the empty 

 cell in the front is not closed in, but open, 

 in the shape of a little cup-shaped ap- 

 pendage. 



More abundant than the common C. 

 in most parts of continental Europe, 

 but much less frequent in England. I 

 have not met with it in cultivation, al- 

 though so similar in foliage. Fl. spring 

 and summer. 



Fig. 482. 



3. Sharp-fruited Cornsalad. Valerianella auricula, DO. 



(Fig. 483.) 



(Fedia, Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2809.) 



Stems generally more erect than the last two species, the branches not 

 proceeding from so near the base, more slender and wiry ; the leaves 

 small and narrow, the cymes small and not so compact, often with single 



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