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Fedia.~\ 
3. Fedia Vahl. (Valerianella Moench.) Corn-Salad. 
Cor. gibbous at the base ; the limb 5 -cleft. Starri. 2 — 3. Caps. 
crowned with unequal teeth, indehiscent, 3-celIed, 1 -seeded; 
2 cells abortive or empty, rarely confluent. (Limb of cor. equal, 
and slam. 3 in all the British species.) — Name given by Adan- 
son ; and supposed to be derived from fedus (the same as hadus), 
a kid, on account of the smell. 
* Fertile cell of fruit with a corky mass at the back. 
1. F. olitdria Vahl. (common C., or Lamb's Lettuce ) ; fruit 
laterally compressed oblique crowned with the 3 obscure in- 
flexed teeth of the calyx, fertile cell corky at the back, sterile 
ones usually confluent, flowers capitate, bracteas leafy ciliato- 
dentate. Valeriana Locusta L. : E. B. t. 811. 
Banks and corn-fields, especially in a light soil. ©. 4 — 6. — Stem 
3 inches to a foot high, dichotomous, more or less rough. Root- 
leaves spathulate ; those of the stem oblong, obtuse, entire or the 
upper ones a little toothed. Flowers pale blue, or rarely white, in 
terminal compact heads, at the base of which are linear-oblong often 
divided bracteas forming a kind of involucre . — Frequently cultivated 
as a salad. 
** Fertile cell not corky at the back. 
f Empty cells conspicuous contiguous. 
2. F. carindta Stev. (carinated C .) ; capsule oblong with a 
wide usually concave groove in front glabrous crowned with 
the short straight bluntish limb of the calyx, the two empty 
cells thin and incurved at the edge, cymes capitate. E. B. S. 
t. 2810. 
Hedge-banks, rare. Devon; Kent; Church Stretton, Shropshire; 
Askrigg, Yorkshire ; and between Gresford and Wrexham, Denbigh- 
shire ; Jersey. ©. 4 — 6. 
3. F. Auricula Gaud, (sharp-fruited C.) ; capsule ovate acu- 
minate, with a narrow groove in front glabrous crowned with 
the single entire or 3-toothed limb of the calyx, empty cells 
rounded on the back, larger than the fertile one, cymes lax. — 
a. calyx-limb nearly entire. E. B. S. t. 2809. — (5. calyx-limb 
acutely 3-toothed. F. tridentata Stev. Valerianella dentata DC. 
Corn-fields, in many parts of England ; Isle of Wight. Jersey. 
Fifeshire. — /3. Llandulph, Cornwall: Rev. R. T. Free. ©. 6 — 8. 
— Habit of the last species, for which it is no doubt often passed 
over ; but t\\e fruit is quite different, being broader and more inflated, 
obscurely furrowed in front, with large empty cells, and crowned with 
the small limb of the calyx. 
