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OXALIS* Cummingi. 



Cumming's Oooalis. 



DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA 



Nat. ord. Oxalides: De Cand. (Introduction to the natural system 



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OXALIS.— Supra, vol. \5.fol 



O. Cummingi, radice annua? stipite carnoso, terete, rubro; foliis ternatis, 

 petiolo glabro, viridi, 2-unciali, suberecto, ad basin articulato rubro; 

 foliolis obversfe cordatis, ciliatis, utrinque Iaete virentibus et pubescentibus ; 

 scapo erecto, pubescente, quadrunciali, viridi, 3-5-floro, stipulato, bifur- 

 cato, ad basin articulato, rubro; pedunculis uncialibus, viridibus, prim6 

 nutantibus, deinde suberectis, in seminando devexis, rubescentibus, uno 

 interfurcali ; calycis foliolis oblongis, subacutis, ciliatis, viridibus, dehinc 

 rubescentibus; corollS. aureola, expansione ^-unciali; staminibus quinque 

 tubo isometris, quinque dupl6 Iongioribus ; stigmatibus filiformibus, tubo 

 brevioribus, in capsula persistentibus. 



N.B. — Lanugo sensim crescente scapo obsolescit. 



- var. p. Stipite viridiore, corolla lutea dimidi6 minore, umbella magis 

 composita et numerosiflora, pedunculis pubescentioribus, stigmatibus 

 provectioribus. — W. H. 



u This beautiful little Oxalis flowered at Spofforth in 

 August and September; the seed, which was brought by 

 Mr. Camming from Chili, having been sown in a small 



pot standing out of doors at the beginning of July. The 

 appearance of the little pot containing four or five seedlings, 

 which produced a constant succession of blossom, expand- 

 ing without sunshine on the wettest days, was very pleasing. 

 It may be considered as a perfectly hardy annual, but will 

 probably not last a second season. An inferior variety 

 was raised from another parcel of seed, collected also by 

 Mr. Cumming in Chili, with much smaller flowers, of a 

 rather paler yellow, the stem less red, the down on the 



* See fol. 1240 



