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*2. F. ]}yrendica (L.) ; 1. heartshaped serrate stalked, upper 
1. with 1 — 2 pairs of small lanceolate leaflets. — E. B. 1591. — 
St. 2 — 3 feet high, furrowed. Fl. light rose-coloured. — Woods, 
rare. P. VI. VII. E.S.I. 
3. V. dioica (L.) ; fl. imperfectly dioecious, root-l. ovate stalked, 
stem I. pinnatijid with a large terminal lobe, f r. glabrous. — E. B. 
628. St. 9.— St. a foot or more in height, simple. Fl. flesh- 
coloured ; rather large with protruded stam. when barren ; or 
small with included stamens and forming a closer corymb when 
fertile. Stoloniferous. — Boggy places. P. V. VI. E. S. 
3. Valeeianel'la Pollich. 
* Fruit with 2 barren cells, fertile cell corky on the back. 
1. V. Locus' ta (Betcke) ; fr. compressed oblique, barren cells 
without furrows, dissepiment incomplete, bracts ciliate. — V. 
o/jVoria (Poll.) ; E. B. 811. St. 2. 3. R. xii. 708.— About 6 
in. high. L. ovate-spathulate, upper ones narrower. Fl. in 
terminal dense cymes with oblong linear opposite bracts. Fr. 
3-celled ; 1 cell fertile with its back formed of a thick gibbous 
spongy mass usually traversed by one furrow, separated by a 
groove on each side from 2 barren slightly confluent cells each 
having a slender rib on its side and their junction marked by 
a slight furrow, [glabrous or (var. lasiocarpa) pubescent]. — Cornfields 
and banks. A. V. VI. Corn-Salad. E. S. I. 
** Fruit u'ith 2 barren consjdcuoiis cells, fertile cell not corky. 
J2. F. carincUa (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. — E. B. S. 2810. 
R. xii. 708. — About 6 in. high. Fl. pale blue. Eoot-1. spathu- 
late, st.-l. oblong. Bracts ciliate. Fr. -section crescent-shaped. 
— Hedge-banks, rare. A. IV. — VI. Lambs' Lettuce. E. S. I. 
3. V. 7-im6sa (Bast.) ; fr. subglobose crowned with 1 erect 
membranous leaf, bai-ren cells larger than the fertile onesinflated 
contiguous having a narrow furrow between them, fl. scattered. 
—E.B.S. 2809. ^. xii. 709. V. Auricida (DC.).— About a. foot 
high. Fl. distant, in the forks of a repeatedly forked cyme. 
Lower 1. obovate attenuate downwards, upper 1. oblong. 
Bracts ciliate. Section of the fruit nearly round. Crown of 
one oblong-blunt obliquely truncate tooth, sometimes with a 
minute tooth on each side ; or of 3 acute teeth, of which one 
is much the longest and often 3-pointed. — Cultivated land. 
A. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 
