_ Adisp genus, but rnciall y osaiean . 
920. ‘OXALIS. 5" (Wood-sorrel.)- ee 
Calix 5-leaved, persistent. Pi 
connected t the claws. Stamina unequal, con- 
nected at the base, 5 of them gts Soa 
Capsule pentangular, 5-celled, bursting at th 
angles, Sceds covered by an elastic arillus. 
; pce ceous plants with tuberois roots, caulescent or 
sensitive as in Mimosa; leaves at first spi- 
rally ioraiarey scape eee or umbellate, end in- 
ae genus of more than 100 species is, with a few ex- 
pte in Europe and America, peculi indigenous 
= ee %* 
or mid sensitive = a 
i Calix 5 to 10 a “Petals 5 or Hantie- 
Ne le Bel S cusps, and 5-cells, cells” 
y-seeded; seeds minute. 
— cient. margin serrate; flowers terminal, cymosely spiked« 
there i is a second species of this genus, in Sa collect 
ted bys Sir G. Staunton. ° 
2 SED U M. ao (Stonecrop,) Se 3 
% 3. cleft. Petals 5. Five saa tlegooh 
Capsules 5.8u- 
apatite. mosily 
Petals 5, partly ‘ 
oe ves aggregated, alternate, ternate, in a few . 
species es simple or binaie, digitate, or multifid, in 1 pinn: ate ~ 
Es. 1.0. Meétoselin. 2. vislacea. This species i 
ars often to flower again late in the autumn, and.is 
then destitute of leaves. 3. Lyoni. Pu. 4. corniculata. 
ae. F tiricta. 6. Dillenii.. These 2 last are scarcely distinct, 
to the Cape of Good Hope. The leaves of the Races 
ividing © 
and subaquatic; leaves alternate, not sue 
 Spscizs. 1. P. sedoides. According to Mr. Vursh ~ 
alternate, sti ; 
