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OXALIS* variabilis. 

 Variable Oocalis. 



DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Oxalide^ De Cand. {Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 140.) 



OXALIS.— Supra, vol. 2. fol. 117. 



§. Acetosellse, acaules aut substipitatce, foliis petiolatis trifoliolatis, 

 petiolis immarginatis, foliolis subtus non glandulosis, scapis unifloris. 

 De Cand. 

 O. variabilis; acaulis, puberula, foliolis subrotundis medio basi cuneato, 



pedunculis unifloris, staminibus basi tuberculatis. 

 « fioribus albis. 



O. variabilis ». Jacq. monogr. oxal. t. 52. Willd. no. 19. De Cand. 

 prodr. no. 108. Spreng. no. 17. 



O. grandiflora. Jacq. t. 54. Willd. no. 20. Spreng. no. 35. 



O. laxula. Jacq. t. 57. 



? O. breviscapa. Jacq. t. 58. Willd. no. 23. D. C. no. 106. Spreng. 

 no. 38. 



Of the two Oxalises now figured, the white one is 

 O. grandiflora of Jacquin, the other the red O. variabilis 

 of the same author. It can scarcely be necessary to do 

 more than place them side by side to shew that they are 

 both the same species. And we scarcely anticipate any 

 objection to the union of all the other supposed species 

 mentioned in our list of synonyms, after the following very 



* See fol. 1249. 



