TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Valeriana. 89 
(E. Bot. 1531. E.)— Riv. 3. 2—Dod. 351. 1 —Lob. Ohs. 184. 2—Ger. Em. 
678. 1 — Park. 123. 11— Ger. 550. 1 —H. Ox. 7. 14. 15— J. B. iii. 211. 2. 
(Stems one to two feet high. Whole plant very smooth. Bloss. in a dense 
corymbose head; rose-colour. Leaves somewhat glaucous, rather suc¬ 
culent ; upper ones sometimes toothed. E.) 
Red Valerian. (Welsh: Triaglogcoch. E.) In gardens; flowers some¬ 
times white. H. Ox. ib. p. 102. On old walls and rubbish: Devon and 
Cornwall, common. Hudson. Sandy hills near Dartford, by the road 
side. Gent. Mag. 1797. p. 217. (Old Walls at Oxford, Cambridge, and 
Norwich. Mr. Woodward. In the chalk-pits of Kent. Glastonbury 
Abbey. E. Bot. On the walls of Hulm Abbey, near Alnwick. Mr. 
Winch. On the East-gate, Warwick. Perry. Llanidan church-yard 
wall, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Old walls at Inverleith. Grev. Edin. On 
the cliffs, Dawlish. E.) P. May—Aug.* 
(2) Flowers with three stamens. 
V. dioPca. Barren and fertile flowers on different plants: radical- 
leaves egg-shaped; stem-leaves winged, leafits very entire: 
somewhat serrated. Barren plants, with imperfect pistils. 
( E. Bot. 628. E.)— Curt. 278 — Kniph. 11 — Riv. 2. 3. V. minor—FI. Dan. 
687. 1 — Walc.— Blackw. 484 — Trag. 62 — Matth. 41 — Ger. 917. 3. 
Fertile plants with imperfect stamens. 
Curt. 278 — Riv. 2. 2. Flor. Exig. — FI. Dan. 687. 2— Clus. ii. 55. 2 — Dod. 
350. 1— Lob. Obs. 411. 3 — Ger. Em. 10T5. 3 — Park. 123. 13 — J. B. iii. 
211. 1 — II. Ox. vii. 14. 5 — Mor. Umb. 10. d. e. 
(Stem erect, six to eight inches high. E.) All the leaves and leafits more 
or less serrated. Root-leaves egg-shaped. Stem-leaves winged or wing- 
cleft ; the terminal leafit like the root-leaves. The barren Jlowers have 
sometimes a short minute pistil, at others no appearance of any. Fertile 
Jlowers have the summit three-cleft, and have either no stamens, or im¬ 
perfect rudiments only. The blossoms in these are smaller than in the 
other; in both they have a tinge of red. In Portugal I have observed 
fertile flowers producing perfect seeds on the same plant with the barren 
flowers; the stamens in the latter varying from one to four, though in ge¬ 
neral each flower has only one stamen. 
Small Valerian. (Welsh: Triaglog byclian y gors. E.) Moist meadows, 
not uncommon. P. May—June. 
V. officinalis. Leaves all winged and toothed. 
Curt. — (E. Bot. 698. E.)— Woodw. 96 — Ludw. 99 — Kniph. 5, the 2d jigure 
—Matth. 40 —Clus. ii. 55. 1— Dod. 349. 2—Lob. Obs. 411. 2—Ger. Em. 
1075. 2—Ger. 917. 2 —Col. Phytol. 26—H. Ox. vii. 14. 2—Riv. 1 —FI. 
Dan. 970 — Fuchs. 857 — Trag. 61. 
* (From the progress of time and intercourse with foreign parts, so many exotics 
have become naturalized in Britain, that it is scarcely possible to define what may strictly 
be considered indigenous; and in the present state of scientific research, were we 
rigidly to adhere to aborigines, excluding those plants which there is reason to suspect 
may have been gradually propagated from gardens or other adventitious sources, our 
catalogue would be deemed extremely incomplete. V. rubra and pyrenaica are instances 
of these dubia, being more properly natives of the south of Europe, yet not unfrequently 
growing wild with us. E.) 
