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OXALIS* divergens. 



Diverging Wood Sorrel 



DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Oxalide* De Cand. (Introduction to the natural system 



if Botany, p. 140.) 



OXALIS.— Supra, vol. 1 5. fol. 1249. 



0. divergens, acaulis, glabra, foliolis 3 cuneatis bilobis : W».£^P*^" 

 rotundatis, scapis multifloris, sepalis ovatis apice macula didyma notatis, 



Si Vltfl ctoiYiinimio nrAirinrinnc 



stylis staminibus brevioribus. 

 0. divergens. Benth. in herb. Lindl. 



A native of Mexico, whence bulbs were sent, a lew 

 years since, to the Horticultural Society by Mr. Graham, 

 from whom we have a wild specimen. It is easily culti- 

 vated under a frame which excludes all wet and very 

 severe cold ; and, like all the American species ot the same 

 habit, prefers the open soil to the conBnement ot a pot. 



It flowers from June to September. 



The Botanical affinity of this species is great est with 

 0. grandifolia, like it a Mexican plant with whrte powers . 

 it is also allied to O. violacea ; but the form of the lobes ol 

 its leaves distinguishes it from either species. ^ 



* See fol. 1249. 



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