Mr. SacisBurY's Second Species of Oxalis, M3 
frifus, yet the branches, which break out near the root, dre ĉon- 
ftantly creeping, as in the following— There is, however, even in 
this refpect, an obvious difference between them to the cye, but 
it is not eafy to be concifely exprefled in botanic language; and 
fortunately there is no neceflity to have recourfe to it for a fpe- 
cific character. 
OXALIS PUSILL A. Tas..23. £. 5 
O. caule repente: foliis 3-natis; petiolis teretiufculis, bafi fipulatis; a- 
minis emarginatis: corollz laciniis obcunesformibus, apice erofulis : 
ftylis vix altitudine filamentorum longiorum, faftigiatis. 
Oxalis corniculata. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2. p. 623. "Trifolium ace- 
tofum corniculatum. —Baub. Pin. p. 330. Oxys flavo flore. 
Cluf, Hif. Pl, lib. 6. p. 248. cum Lc. 
-= THE older botanifts, regarding this plant as a fpecies of Trifolium, 
gave it the fpecific epithet of corniculatum, from the figure of the 
feed-vefiel, which in the prefent improved ftate of the fcience is 
very indefinite, being equally applicable to the whole genus. 
Above are all the (ynonyms I dare at prefent fay certainly belong 
toit. It is perennial, but liable to be deftroyed by fevere froft, and 
always of much dwarfer growth than the former. I received the 
Íceds. of it from Spam, and it is alfo found wild occafionally in De- 
vonfbire ; a certain proof of the mildnefs of that climate, where many 
other fouthern plants occur, fuch as Pinguicula lufitanica, Sibthorpia 
europea, Lobelia urens, and Erica vagans, This circumftance, together - 
with that of the Arbutus Uedo and Andromeda Dabeocit, which laft 
grows alfo in Tenerife, being found wild in Zre/azd, feems to 
ftrengthen the conjecture, that fome violent- concuffion of the 
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