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XX. The Characters qfi wo Species of Oxalis. By Richard ‘Anthony 
Salfburÿ, Efq. F. R. S.. and F, L. S. 
Read Odi. 2, 1792 
N making a catalogue of the plants in my garden, having had 
lately occafion to inveftigate feveral Oxalides, the refult of my 
enquiries refpeéting two fpecies, which many botanifts have 
thought only varieties, may poflibly be interefting enough to be: 
laid before the Linnean Society. 
OXALIS AMBIGUA. Tas 23 f.4 
O. caule repente; folis 5-natis; petiolis. /emiteretibus, ex/lipulatis y 
laminis emarginatis: corolla laciniis obovatis. integerrimis +. ftylis 
altitudine filamentorum longiorum,, patulis. 
Oxalis corniculata. Berg. Phyt. v. 2. b 17. cum Ic. Oxalis comi 
culata. n m Fl, Dan. fafc. x5. $- 4.f. 873. Oxalis ftricta;. 
à Linn, Sp. Pl, ed. 2. p. 624. Oxys lutea americana, DiM. Hort. 
` Elh. P 209. t. 221. f. 4, | 
| THOUGH the primary ítems of this plant in fome de- 
gree anfwer to the definition which Linné has given of the term 
A. : ffricius, 
