VALERIANELLA (a diminutive of Valeriana). SYNS. Fedia (of Gaertner), Odontocarpa, Polypremum (of Adanson). ORD. Valerianeae. A genus comprising about fifty species of small, hardy, dichotomously branched, annual herbs, natives of Europe, North Africa, West Asia, and North America. Flowers whitish, pale bluish, or pink; calyx limb toothed, lobed, or wanting; corolla tube short or rarely elongated, the limb spreading, five-cleft; stamens three cymes sometimes fastigiately corymbose-paniculate, sometimes densely globose at the tips of the branches; bracts free. Radical leaves rosulate, entire; cauline ones entire, toothed, or rarely incised-pinnatifid. VALERIANELLA carinata and VALERIANELLA olitoria are the only species calling for description in this work. For cultural directions, &c., see Corn Salad. VALERIANELLA carinata (keeled). Corn Salad. fr. oblong, boat-shaped; fertile cell not corky; calyx limb indistinct. Europe (Britain). Sir J. D. Hooker regards this as "probably a variety of Fedia olitoria, which it resembles in all characters save those of the fruit." VALERIANELLA olitoria (culinary). Common Corn Salad; Lamb's Lettuce; White Potherb. fl. pale lilac, minute, in capitate cymes. April to June. fr. minute, glabrous or hairy; fertile cell corky on the back, the empty ones contiguous or confluent; calyx limb wanting. l. 1in. to 3in. long, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, quite entire or toothed: cauline ones half-amplexicaul. h. 6in. to 12in. Europe (Britain), &c. An excellent salad. See also Corn Salad.