DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Oxalis. 



5. O. tola hirsuta ; caule erecto ramoso, pedunculis um- 



belliferis petiolis brevioribus, foliis ternatis obcordatis, 



petalis obovatis, stylis longitudine staminum interio- 



xxxm.— fVilld. sp. pi 2. p.^SOO. 

 O. ambigua, Salisb. in act. soc. linn. lond. 2. t. 23. f. 4. 

 O. corniculata. Fl. dan. t. 873. 

 Icon, Jacq. oxal. t. 4. Dill. elth. t. 221. f. 4. 

 In cultivated grounds: Pensylvania to Virginia. 1/ . 



June, July, v. v. Flowers yellow, 



6. O. hirsuta ; caule folioso erecto hirto, pedunculis um- 



belliferis foliis longioribas, foliis ternatis obcordatis, 



coroUis emarginatis. JVilld. sp- pi. 2. p. 799- 

 Icon. Dill. elth. t.22l. 

 In Carolina, Dillenius. . + . Flowers yellow, larger 



than the preceding one, with which it generally is 



confounded. 



823 



stricta. 



Dillenii. 



396. PENTHORUM. Gen. pi. 790. 



P. caule ramoso, angulato ) foliis lanceolatis subsessilibus 

 inaequaliterdense-serratis, spicis terminalibus panicula- 

 tis alternis cymosisque, seminibus scrobiformibus,— 

 mild. sp. pi. 2. p. 770. 



Icon. Act. ups. 1744. t. 2. 



In ditches and small ponds : New England to Carolina. 

 %. June, July, v. v. Flowers white or pale yellow. 

 In the Herbarium of A. B. Lambert, Esq. is a se- 

 cond species, brought by Sir George Staunton from 

 China, which I distinguish by the following charac- 

 ters : Penthorum chinense, caule simplici tereti, foliis 

 elongato-lineari-lanceolatis subpetiolatis inaequaliter 

 serratis, spicis cymosis terminalibus, seminibus ovatis 

 corneis. 



sedoides. 



397. SEDUM. Gen. pi. 789. 



l.S. erectum, glabrum, 1-2-unciale; foliis alternis tere- pusillurru. 



tiusculis oblongis, flovious ad summitatem pauciori- 



bus alternis subpedicellatis. Mich.Ji. amer. 1. p. 276. 

 In North Carolina, on flat locks. Michaux. On the 



cast banks of the Shanadoah River, Virginia. _ P. 



1/. Jane, July. v. v. Flowers white, with eight 



stamina. 

 2. S, glabrum ; caulibus assurgentibus, foliis sparsis pla- pulchelluvi. 



niuscule linearibus obtusis, cyma polystachya, floribus 



sessUibus octaadris, — Mich.Ji. amer, I. p. 277. 

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