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Patrinia (E. L. Patrin, 1742-1814, French traveler in Siberia).
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Valerianaceae. Yellow- or white-flowered valerian-like hardy
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herbaceous perennials, a foot or so high, blooming in early summer;
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resemble Valeriana and Fedia.
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Glabrous or loosely villous herbs: lvs. once or twice pinnatifid or
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pinnatisect, the radical ones rarely entire: cymes
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coryrnbose-panicled bracts narrow, free, but sometimes anpendaged
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with a large 2-nerved and netted-veined bracteole which is appressed
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to the fr.: calyx with a small erect or spreading somewhat dentate
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limb; corolla-tube very short; lobes 5, spreading; stamens usually 4;
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style nearly entire at apex: sterile locules of the fr. nearly as
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large or larger than the fertile ones.—About 15 species in
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extratropical Asia; little planted. They are of easy cult, in damp or
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shady places; bloom May to July- They are grown either in borders or
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in rockwork. Prop, by division of the roots and also by seeds.
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P. intermedia, Roem. & Schult. (P. rupestris, Bunge. Fedia rupestris,
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Hort.). 1-1 1/2 ft.: lvs. pinnatifid, the segms. lanceolate with
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large terminal lobe: fls. yellow, fragrant, in May and June. Siberia.
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B.M. 714 (as V. sibirica).—P. sibirica, Juss. (Valeriana sibirica,
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Linn.). 1 ft., most of the lvs. radical, the cauline ones pinnate
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with entire segms., the radical long-spatulate, serrate, strong-
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toothed or entire (even on same plant): fls. yellow, fragrant.
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Siberia. B.M. 2325 (as V. ruthenica).
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