. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 2632. Garden Heliotrope—Valeri- ana officinalis (X%). The roots are eaten by Indians. The leaves are thickjsh and strongly veined. The African or Algerian Valerian is Fi'dia Cornucbpice, Gaertn. (Valeriana C'ornueopii
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 2632. Garden Heliotrope—Valeri- ana officinalis (X%). The roots are eaten by Indians. The leaves are thickjsh and strongly veined. The African or Algerian Valerian is Fi'dia Cornucbpice, Gaertn. (Valeriana C'ornueopiie, Linn. Valerianella Conm- eopise, Loisel.). It is an Algerian annual used for salad, after the manner of corn salad. It does not appear to be in the Amer. trade. Glabrous, branching, 1% ft. or less high: lvs. oval-oblong, thickish, simple, somewhat toothed, those of the stem clasping: fls. long-tubular, pink, in terminal clusters. Cult, as for corn'salad, although it endures loss eohl. It thrives well in warm weather when not allowed to suffer for water. 2:155.— V. tripteris, Linn., of Europe, appears to have been offered in this country, although little known here: about 1 ft. tall, glabrous: radical lvs. oval or cordate, dentate: stem- lvs. with 3 leaflets or lobes, the terminal one large: fls. rose- eolored, polygamous. L H B VALERIANELLA (diminutive of Valeriana). I'ale- rian&cecv. Including Corn Salad or Fetticus. A genus of nearly 50 species of annual, dichotornously branched herbs, with a basal rosette of entire lvs. and small white, bluish or pinkish fls. borne in terminal cymes, which form compact globular or flatfish clus- ters. Corolla nearly regular, 5-lobed; stamens 3: fr. 3-loculed, 2 of the locules being empty. These plants are mostly native to the Mediterranean region. V. oli- toria is the common Corn Salad and V. eriocarpa the Italian Corn Salad. To the account given in this work at page 376, the following may be added: Corn Salad is both a salad
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