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FE'DIA* 
Linnean Class and Order . Tria'ndria-)-, Monogy'nia. 
Natural Order. Valeria'ne.e, Dec. FI. Fr. (3rd ed.) v. iv. p. 
232. — Lindl. Syn. p. 137 ; Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. p. 197. — 
Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 458. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 520. — Don’s Gen. 
Syst. ofGard. and Bot. v. iii. p.665. — Mack. FI. Hibern. p. 139. — 
Hook. Brit. FI. (4th edit.) p. 410. — Dipsace.e, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 
194. — Sin. Gram, of Bot. p. 125. — Syringales; subord. Aste- 
rosaj ; sect. Valerin^e; type, Valerianace^e ; Burn. Outl. of 
Bot. pp. 900, 901, 916, & 917. — Aggregate, Linn. 
Gen. Char. Calyx (see fig. 1 .) small, upright, unequally toothed, 
crowning the fruit. Corolla (see figs. 1 & 2.) superior, of 1 petal, 
funnel-shaped, limb in 5 blunt segments ; tube gibbous at the base. 
Filaments (see figs. 2 & 3.) 3, sometimes more, inserted in the 
tube, and rather shorter than the limb. Anthers roundish. Germen 
(see fig. 2.) inferior, of 3 cells, roundish and oblong. Style (fig. 4.) 
thread-shaped. Stigma notched. Capsule (fig. 5.) various in shape, 
indehiscent, 3-celled, 2 cells abortive, crowned with the teeth of 
the permanent calyx. Seeds (fig. 6.) solitary, smooth. 
The small, unequally toothed calyx, crowning the fruit ; the 
monopetalous, 5-cleft corolla , gibbous at the base ; and the inde- 
hiscent, 3-celled capsule ; will distinguish this from other genera 
in the same class and order. 
Six species British. 
FE'DIA CARINA'TA. Keeled-fruited Fedia. Carinated Corn- 
salad. Lambs’ Lettuce. 
Spec. Char. Capsule oblong, longitudinally boat-shaped, deeply 
furrowed in front, keeled at the back ; the two sterile cells nearly 
equal to the fertile one ; crowned with the straight single tooth of 
the calyx. Flowers capitate. 
Steven in Mem. Soc. Mosc. vol. v. p. 346. — Roem et Schultes Syst. v. i. p. 361. — 
Hook. Brit. FI. (4th ed.) p. 22. — Bab. Prim. FI. Sam. p. 48 . — Valerianella cari- 
nata, Lois. Not. p. 149. — De Cand. Prod. v. iv. p. 629. — Lindl. Syn. (2nd edit.) 
p. 324. — Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. iii. p. 670. — Leight. FI. of Shropsh. 
p. 27. — Valerianella, semine umbilicato nudo oblongo, nobis, Moris. Oxon. 
sect. 7. t. 16. f. 31. 
Localitxfs. — I n corn-fields, hedge-banks, and on walls; very rare.— Oxford- 
sbire ; On a wall in Rose Lane, Oxford, opposite the Botanic Garden ; May21, 
1841. — As this species has been cultivated in the Botanic Garden for these last 
three years, it may possibly have escaped from thence to the wall on the oppo- 
site side of the lane; yet a Fedia has grown there for several years, but, till I 
examined it this season, I had always considered it to be F. olitoria, a species 
which is common about Oxford, but which is not now on the wall in question : 
Fig. 1. Involucrum. — Fig. 2. Germen, Calyx, and Corolla. — Fig. 3. Corolla 
opened vertically. — Fig. 4. Pistil. — Fig. 5. Capsule. — Fig. 6. A Seed. — Fig. 7. 
Transverse section of the Capsule. — All, except figs. 1 & 6, magnified. 
From /edits, an ancient word, synonymous with hoedus, a kid. Don. 
+ See folio 56, note t. 
