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‘=P €nnsylvania, altitude 750 feet (Porter). 
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Geographical and altitudinal range: Charleston, S. Carolina, at 
sea-level (Elliott); North West, Virginia, at sea-level (Britton & 
Small); Roanoke, Virginia, altitude 1000 feet (Small & Heller); 
Falls of the Hoiston Riv r, southwest Virginia, altitude 2000 
feet (Small); Gold Hill, North Carolina, altitude 200 feet (Small 
& Heller), 
| OXALIS GRANDIS n, sp. 
Oxalis recurva Trelease, Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 4:° 89 
(1888), not Ell. oe lth 
Annual or perennial by a slender rootstock, rather’ stout, 
nearly glabrous or villous throughout, pale or light green. Stem 
frect, 2-4 dm. long, simple or sometimes sparingly branched, 
leafy above, soon naked below; leaves large, 4-7.5 cm. broad ; 
leaflets usually unequal, obcordate, broader than long, mostly with 
a brown Margin, more or less ciliate, sinus shallow but..acute; 
Petioles 4-12 cm. long ; inflorescence subcymose or cymose ; pedi- 
cels 11.5 cm. long, straight in fruit, pubescent, bearing one or two 
Pairs of bracts; peduncles 8-13 cm. long; calyx 4-6 mm. long, 
Parted to the base, segments unequal, ovate or linear-oblong, pu- 
Scent about the apex, sometimes sparsely ciliate and revolute; 
Corolla bright yellow, 12-15 mm. long; petals. 3-5 times as long 
as the sepals, not emarginate, with dark striaz about the centre or 
near the base; stamens persistent; styles very pubescent with 
Spreading hairs; stigmas entire; pod narrowly-ovoid: or oblong, 
acute, 8-10 mm. long; seeds 2 mm. long, rather unsymmetrical, 
oblong, acute, marked with interrupted transverse ridges and two 
“onspicuous longitudinal ridges or crests on the back. (Plate 223.) 
Geographical and _ altitudinal range: Wysox, Pennsylvania, 
altitude 700 feet (Carey); Wall, Pennsylvania, altitude 800 feet 
(Seal); Franklin county, Ohio, altitude 750 feet (Werner); Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, altitude 500 feet (Lloyd) ; Hanover, Indiana, alti- 
tude 1000 feet (Barnes); Mt. Carmel, Illinois, altitude 450 feet 
(Schneck) ; Knoxville, Tennessee, altitude 1000 feet (Kearney) ; 
Caldwell county, North Carolina, altitude 2500 feet (Heller) ; 
Roanoke, Virginia, altitude 1000 feet (Britton); Marion, Virginia, | 
altitude 2100 feet (Miss Vail); Cumberland Mountains, southeast- 
“m Kentucky, altitude 1000-2000 feet (Kearney); Mercersburg, 
