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242 VALERIANE


*2, KentrAntuus (Spur-Valerian).—Glabrous, leafy plants ;
flowers in terminal, panicled cymes, bracteolate; pappus deciduous ;
corolla with 5 unequal lobes, a long compressed tube, and a
spur. (Name from the Greek heniron, a spur, anthos, a flower.)

1.* K. ruber (Red Spur-Valerian).—Glaucous, 1—2 feet high ;
leaves entire, ovate, acute; flowers crimson, deep rose-red, or
white.—Chalk-pits, railway-banks, limestone-quarries, and old
garden-walls ; common, but not indigenous. A very handsome
garden plant.—Fl. June—September. Perennial.
» 2.° K. Caletivapa; ditferme
j chiefly in having pinnatifid
cauline leaves, occurs as a
garden escape at Eltham, Kent.
. VALERIANELLA (Corn-
salad).—Small plants, repeat-
edly forked; leaves simple ;
flowers minute, solitary or in
crowded bracteate cymes in
the forks of the branches ;
calyx generally distinguishable
as teeth on the fruit ; corolla s-
lobed, obconic, polysymmetric ;
fruit generally of 2 empty
barren and 1 fertile (1-seeded)
chambers. (Name, a diminu-
tive of Valeridna.) |

1: V. olitoria (Common
Corn-salad, Lamb’s Lettuce).
— Smooth, flaccid, _ brittle,
4—12 in. high ; leaves long and
narrow, a little toothed near
the base, the upper ones clasp-
ing the stem; flowers very
minute, pale lilac, in dense terminal leafy heads; the fertile
chamber of the ovary thick and corky at the back, crowned by
the 3 calyx-teeth.-Cornfields; common. It is sometimes
cultivated as a salad.—Fl. May, June. Annual.
2.* V. ertocadrpa (Woolly-fruited Corn-salad), differing in
having a hairy fruzt, crowned by a large, nearly regular, campanu-
late calyx, and with its fertile chamber not corky, occurs
occasionally, but is not native.—Fl. June. Annual.
