TRIANDRIAMONOGYNIA, §, 
CLASS III. 
T R I A N D R I A. 
^he plants of this clafs have three ftamina^ and from omt 
to three pjiils. 
MO NO G T N lA comprehends fuch plants as have hut 
one piftil, 
VALERIANA. Valerian. 
T he flower conflfts of one petal. The tube is gib”* 
bous and contains the nedar in the lov/er flde; \ 
the limb is quinquifid, and the fegments obtufe. There 
are three Tubulated, ered; filaments of the length of the 
corolla, with roundifli antherae. The germen is beneath 
the receptacle, the flyle is like thread, of the length of 
the {lamina, with a thickifh fliigma. The fruit is a 
capfule that fplits and falls off, and the feeds are Angle 
and oblong. 
Obf. Linn. There is a great diverfity of the parts 
of frudiflcation in this genus, both as to number and 
Agure, e. g. The margine of the cup in fome is fcarce 
obfervabie-, in others it is quinquifld. The tube of 
the corolla in fome is oblong in others it has got a mel- 
liferous fpur, in others it is very fhort. The limb in 
fome is equal, in others bilabiated and the upper lip 
biAd. There are three Aamina in fome, in others two, 
in others only one; in the Abirica four. The Aigma of 
the piftil in fome is triAd in others emarginated, in 
others globofe. Scarce any feed veflei in fome*, in others 
a thick capfule, in others bilocular. The feeds of fome 
have down, others have none. Thefe obfervations have 
relation in general to the exotic valerians. 
Officinalis, Great wild Valerian^ the flower of Vvhich 
has three ftamina, and all the leaves are pinnate. In 
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