584 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA, 
Evurorr., 
vaturalized; widely diffused on the Pacific coast from British Columbia to south- 
ern California, Rare in the Atlantic States, 
ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile; June, Rare. Observed for several 
seasons maturing seeds well. Annual. 
Keonomic uses: Considered on the Pacific as one of the most valuable wild pas- 
ture plants, 
Type locality : ‘Wab. in Europace sterilibus cultis.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
OXALIDACEAE. Wood-sorrel Family. 
OXALIS 1. Sp. V1.1:438. 17532! 
About 200 species, chietly of tropical America, South Africa. North America 17, 
Atlantic 8, 
Oxalis corniculata L. Sp. Pl 1:435. 1753. CREEPING SORREL. 
Ell. Sk. 1:526, Gray, Man. ed. 6, 105, Chap. FI, ed.3, 65. Coulter, Contr. Nat. 
Herb, 2:52. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1:96, 
Evurorer, NORTHERN AFRICA, ASIA, MEXICO, COSMOPOLITAN. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Indigenous in the interior in Missouri, 
Arkansas, ‘Texas, and California, and trom all appearances in the Gulf States. 
ALABAMA: Cultivated and waste places. ‘Tuscaloosa County (2. A. Smith). Lee 
County, Auburn (Baker ¢ Earle, 103). Mobile. Flowers yellow; March, May. 
Not rare. Easily recognized by the low prostrate habit of its growth. VPerennial 
from a creeping rootstock. 
Type locality: ** Hab. in Italia, Sicilia,” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Oxalis stricta L. Sp. Pl. 1:435. 1753. COMMON YELLOW SORREL, 
Oralis corniculuta var. stricta Sav. in Lam. Eneyvel, 4:63. 1797, 
EM. Sk, 1:526, Gray, Man. ed, 6, 105, in part. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 65. Coulter, 
Contr. Nat. Herb, 2:52. Britt. & Br. LL. FI. 2: 346. 
Stem mostly simple, erect or branched at the base from a slender perennial root- 
stock, 6 to 8 inches high; leaves smoothish or strigosely pubescent, } inch to 14 
inches wide; leaflets little wider than long, fleshy, smoothish, ciliate, broadly emar- 
ginate, the cellular structure prominent under the lens; peduncles umbellate, 
longer than the leaves, 2 to 6 inches long, axillary from the clustered leaves; pedi- 
cels ¢ to 2 inch long, almost horizontally detlexed in fruit; pods columnar, 
abruptly pointed with the short styles, $ to ¢ ineh long, seed somewhat acute at 
the base with strony interrupted transverse ridges. Flowers yellow, small. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, Canada; New England to Dakota, south to the 
Gulf of Mexico. 
ALABAMA: Over the State, In low damp ground, grassy banks, fields, and woods. 
Flowers May. Common. Annual or perennial, 
Type locality: “Hab. in Virginia,” 
Herb. Mohr. 
Oxalis recurva El. 8k.1:526, 1817. LARGE-FLOWERED Woop Sorret, 
MMSk. lc, Chap. Fl. ed. 3,65. Britt. & Br. TL. Fl. 2: 347. 
A ‘nore slender plant than the wbove, perennial. Stems mostly several from the 
wiry stoloniferoug rhizoma, rigid, scarcely over 6 inches in length; leatlets thin- 
ner, about # inch wide and scarcely as long, the cellular structure less prominent 
under the lens; peduncles slender, umbellate, longer than the leaves, hirsute with 
strigose adpressed hairs; pedicels 2 to 4 in the tunbellate cluster, almost filiform, 
incurved and at length reflexed; pod acuminate, erowned with the long styles; 
seeds with uninterrupted transverse ridges.” 
Carolinianand Lonisianian area. Northwestern Virginia at sea level, southwestern 
Virginia at 2,000 feet; southeastern Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina at 
sea level, 
‘J. K. Small, Two species of Oxalis, Bull. Torr. Club, vol. 21, pp.471 to 479. 1894, 
Same author, A neelected species of Oxalis and its relatives, op. cit., vol. 23, pp. 265 
to 269, 1896, 
* See J. K. Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21:47], t. 222, 
