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VALERIANELLA congesta. 
Close-headed Corn-Salad. 
meres eee 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA4A. 
Nat. ord. VaALERIANE, 
VALERIANELLA. — Calyx margo dentatus y. rectus. Corolla 
bilabiata, 5-fida, basi gibbosa v. calcarata. Stigma 2-3-dentatum. Cypsela 
trilocularis, loculis duobus inanibus nunc apertis. 
Diy. Precrriris; an genus? 
Loculi inanes aperti aleformes. Corolla calcarata. 
V. congesta ; foliis integris, radicalibus spatulatis, caulinis ovatis subdentatis, 
verticillis cymosis congestis. 
Herba annua, variabilis, nunc palmaris, simplex, floribus folits brevioribus, 
nune ramosus, pedalis sesquipedalisve, verticillis longe pedunculatis. Caulis 
angulatus. Folia glaberrima, radicalia obovata v. spatulata, integerrima, 
caulina late ovata, sessilia, subdentata, floralia lineart-oblonga. Flores mo- 
neci, verticillati; verticillis bipartitis, cymosis; mascult majores. Bractee 
multifide, pubescentes, laciniis subulatis coloratis glabris. Ovarium pubescens, 
ovatum, antice bialatum ob loculos inanes apertos, wniloculare. Calyx margo 
rectus integerrimus. Corolla carnea, nunc virescens, bilabiata, 5-fida, lact- 
nits oblongis obtusis, tubo antice gibboso, bast calcarato, calcare breve 
arcuato obtuso. Stamina 3. Cypsele pubescentes, cartilaginee, bialate, 
alis (é locults inanibus apertis) involutis. 
A beautiful annual, native of the north-west coast of 
North America, whence seeds were sent to the Horti- 
cultural Society, by Mr. David Douglas, in 1826. Our 
drawing was made in the Chiswick Garden, in June last. 
By far the handsomest of the genus, perfectly hardy, and 
easily cultivated in the open border of the flower garden. 
It is not very evident to what genus of Valerianee this 
plant is referable. With Centranthus it agrees in having 
calcarate flowers; but it differs from that genus in having 
3 stamens; and from all the genera with ecalcarate flowers, 
in the peculiar nature of the fruit, which is 3-celled, with 
two abortive cells, as Valerianella, but with the empty 
