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which became more and more interesting, as it was discovered 
at new and widely separated localities. For some reason every 
time I encountered the plant it suggested to me the name 
Oxalis recurva. After Elliott published that species* it received 
+ little recognition in the works of later botanists, and by them ules 
generally recorded in an arbitrary manner as being identical with 
O. stricta or ignored altogether. When Dr. Trelease revised the 
genus in 1888+ he attempted to reestablish Elliott’s O. inc, 
but, not having access to the type specimen, he went widely 
astray of the mark and applied Elliott’s name to a very different 
plant. Dr. Trelease was apparently a little too unmindful of the 
laws of geographical distribution in concluding, especially 
without having seen the original specimen, that O. reer 
discovered on the coast of South Carolina, was a typically 
Middle States species. t 
As recorded in the Memorrs of the Torrey Botanical Club, 2: 
44, Dr. Britton and party found what was then supposed to be 
Oxalis recurva at Roanoke and Eggleston’s, Virginia. The ee 
lowing year (1891) Mr. Heller and myself, while passing pre 
Roanoke, picked up some small specimens along the south ban 
of the Roanoke River, and pronounced them Oxalis egies | 
‘account of the strongly recurved pedicels; but on learning what’ 
was then known as that species, and being unable at that time to oe 
learn the cause of an evident confusion, the specimens be a 
distributed as Oxalis stricta. Besides this locality, we also we 
similar plants a few days later near Gold Hill, in middle eet: : 
Carolina. Little more was thought about the matter until the 
same plant turned up again further to the southwest, at the Fa 
of the Holston River, in Smyth county, Virginia, during the si of 
dition of the Torrey Botanical Club. to that region in 1892. ie 
the report on that excursion § ‘the plant was reluctantly plac € 
under O. stricta, and the supposed O. recurva, found further wa 1. 
same river, recorded as such. In the spring of 1893, while at 
lecting in company with Dr. Britton about the Great — : 
* Bot. S.C. & Ga. 1: 526. 
+Mem. Bost, Soc. Nat. Hist. 4: 71-104. 
¢ Mem. Bost, Soc. Nat. Hist. 4: 87. 
§ Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 4: 109. 
