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FEDIA Auricula.
Round-fruited Corn Salad.
T R IA N D R IA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Corolla superior, five cleft, gibbous at
the base. Fruit one seeded, without a feathery
crown.
Spec. Char. Barren cells two, contiguous ; crown
erect, of one membranous leaf. Flowers distant.
Upper leaves inciso-dentate at the base.
Syn. Fedia Auricula. Woods in Tr. of Linn. Soc.
v. 17. 431. t. 21. f . 15. Hooker Brit. FI. ed. 3.
v. 1. 24. Mertens & Koch, Deut. Fl. v. 1. 400.
Reich. Ic. t. 63.
Valerianella Auricula. Fl. Fr. v. 5. 492. De Cand.
Prod. v. 4. 627. Dietrich in Sp. PI. ed. 6. v. 2.
655.
V. olitoria, as to the magnified dissections. FL
Lond. ed. 2. v. 1.
ß. Calyx larger, more evidently divided, permanent.
Fedia tridentata. Reich. Ic. t. 64.
Valerianella tridentata. Dietrich in Sp. PI. ed. 6.
v. 2. 656.
Y. dentata. De Cand. Prod. v. 4. 267 ?
OuR specimens of this plant were gathered in Ore Lane,
near Hastings, where it was discovered by Dr. Bromfield.
It had previously been observed by the Rev. R. F. Bree,
at Landulph, in Cornwall; and has since been noticed by the
Rev. Mr. Billingsley, at Upper Slaughter in Gloucestershire;
by Mr. Borrer, at Torquay, and at Combe Martin in
Devonshire; and by Mr. Babington at Oughterard, in Galway,
and in the Island of Jersey. The Valerianella serotina
elatior fo r e albo semine turgidiore of Morison, Hist. Ox.
Sect. 7. t. 16. f . 37., quoted by Ray in the Synopsis, p. 201,
and said to have been found “ in the corn-fields, between Ore