. Flowers of the field. Botany. valp;rian' *2. Kextuaniiii '^ (Spur-A'alerian).^Glabrous, leafy plants; ftmi'ers in terminal, [lanicled cymes, bracteolate; pappus deciduous ; curolla with 5 unequal lobes, a lon^L; compressed tube, and a spur. (Name from the Greek kentraii, a spur, aiitlios, a flower.) 1.* K. ruber (Red SpurA'alerian).â (llaucous, 1â2 feet high ; haves entire, ovate, acute ; floieers crimson, deep rose-red, or white.âChalk-pits, raihvay-banks, limestone-quarries, and old garden-walls ; common, but not indigenous. A very handsome garden plant.âFl. JuneâSeptember. I'erennial.
. Flowers of the field. Botany. valp;rian' *2. Kextuaniiii '^ (Spur-A'alerian).^Glabrous, leafy plants; ftmi'ers in terminal, [lanicled cymes, bracteolate; pappus deciduous ; curolla with 5 unequal lobes, a lon^L; compressed tube, and a spur. (Name from the Greek kentraii, a spur, aiitlios, a flower.) 1.* K. ruber (Red SpurA'alerian).â (llaucous, 1â2 feet high ; haves entire, ovate, acute ; floieers crimson, deep rose-red, or white.âChalk-pits, raihvay-banks, limestone-quarries, and old garden-walls ; common, but not indigenous. A very handsome garden plant.âFl. JuneâSeptember. I'erennial. 2r K. Cahilrapa, differing chiefly in having pinnatifid eauliiw leaves, occurs as a garden escape at Eltham, Kent. ^^ tf 3""^^^ 3- V.'\I,ERIANELL.'\. (Com- â '^''â ^" '^ salad).âSmall plants, repeat- edly forked ; leaves simple ; flowers minute, solitary or in crowded bracteate cymes in the forks of the branches; calyx igenerally distinguishable as teeth on the fruit ; corolla 5- lobed, obconic, polysymmetric; p-uil .generally of 2 empty barren and i fertile (i-seeded) chambers. (Name, a diminu- tive of I'aleruina.) I. I . olitoria (Common Corn-salad, Lamb's Lettuce). â Sniooth, flaccid, brittle, 4 â12 in. liigh ; /p(Vji« long and narrow, a little toothed near the liase, the upper ones clasp- ing the stem ; floicers very minute, pale lilac, in dense terniinal leafy heads; the fertile chamber of the ovary thick and corky at the back, crowned by the 3 calyx-teetli .---Cornhelds ; common. It is sometimes cultivated as a salad. â Id. May, |une. .\nnual. 2.* I . enocdrpa (Woolly-fruited (Yirn-salad), differing in having a hairy /rail, crowned by a large, nearly regular, campanu- late ccdyx, ami with its fertile chamber not corky, occurs occasionally, but is not native, âh'i. |une. Annual. 3.* r. curiudia Keeled-fruited Corn-salad), differing in its blue flowers and oblong, boat-shaped jruit, crowned by i sepal, with its fertile chamber not corky and-tl
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