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the Warberry-hill, &c. [Torquay] : Tor. Fl. — C. Also common in 
this county. Sennen cove : Bail. Corn Salad. 
I V. carinata (Loisel.) — Fedia E.B.S. 2810. — Hedge-banks, 
rare, — D- Near Dawlish (Sept. 1848): Mr. A. Henfrey in Bat. 
Gaz. i. 193. Hele, near Ilfracombe : Bor. in Rav. Lambs' Lettuce , 
V. Auricula (DC.) — Fedia E.B.S. 2809. V. dentata DC. — - 
Cultivated land. — " Common in a wheat-field at Wembury 
[near Plymouth], and seen elsewhere in that neighbourhood, in 
July, 1865 ; also between that place and Down Thomas, growing 
with F. dentata :" Briggs in Journ. Bot. iii. 351. Bolt-head (Pro- 
fessor Babington) : Hore in Phytol. 1842, p. 161. In a field about 
half a mile from Dawlish toward Mount Pleasant, growing with 
F. dentata (Sept., 1848): Mr. A. Henfrey in Bot. Gaz. i. 193. 
Torquay : Bor. in Rav. Broadclyst : Parf. ib. Mortehoe : N.D.H. 
— C« 111 a waste by the roadside, near Antony, with F. dentata ; 
cornfield between Trevol and St. John's : Briggs loc. cit. Landulph 
(Rev. Mr. Bree) ^ : Hore loc. cit. 
In a " Note on some of the British Valerianellas," Mr. Arthur Henfrey^ 
after saying that Dr. Bromfield " more than suspects V. Auricula to be a 
mere variety of V. dentata,'^ thus writes in Bot. Gaz. i. 109 : — 
"When botanizing in the neighbourhood of Dawlish, last September [1848], 1 
found plants, side by side, in a corn-field, undistinguishable by any character but that 
of the fruit ; and as the inflation of the barren cells in V. Auricula rendered the 
fruits just so much larger than those of V. dentata, I think that this must be 
regarded as an accidental condition of the latter plant. In another field not far from 
Dawlish, in the direction of Exeter, where a potato crop had been destroyed by the 
' disease,' and which had apparently been well manured, I found a Valerianella growing 
in profusion all over the field, and, on examination of several fruits, it proved to be 
V. carinata. 1 gathered a number of specimens and dried them. On looking them 
over after my return to town, I was surprised to find several of the specimens with 
the fruit of V. olitoria. The carinata plants have the cymes fuller of flowers, while 
in the olitoria the stems are rather stouter, the hairy lines upon them more distinct, 
as are also the cilia of the bracts ; the bracts are a good deal larger, and extend be- 
yond the flowers, while in my specimens of carinata they are about equal to the 
flowers. The difference on the whole is, that the olitoria form has all its vegetative 
parts more luxuriant and bears fewer flowers, while in carinata the flowers and fruits 
are especially developed. Dr. Bromfield mentions that M. de St. Amans (Flore 
1 According to Hooker, Mr. Bree's plant is the var. V. tridentata (Wood's 
MS.), described in Koch's Flora Gcrmanica, p. 373. 
