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OXALIS* Cummmgi. 

 ( 'umming's Oaalis. 



DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Oxalide/E De Cand. (Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 140.) 



OXALIS.— Supru, vol. \5.foL 1249. 



O. Cummingi, radice annua ? stipite carnoso, terete, rubro ; foliis ternatis, 

 petiolo glabro, viridi, 2-unciali, suberecto, ad basin articulato rubro ; 

 foliolis obverse cordatis, ciliatis, utrinque lsete virentibus et pubescentibus; 

 scapo erecto, pubescente, quadrunciali, viridi, 3-5-floro, stipulato, bifur- 

 cato, ad basin articulato, rubro ; pedunculis uncialibus, viridibus, primo 

 nutantibus, deinde suberectis, in seminando devexis, rubescentibus, uno 

 interfureali ; calyeis foliolis oblongis, subacutis, ciliatis, viridibus, dehinc 

 rubescentibus; corolla aureola, expansione g-unciali ; staminibus quinque 

 tubo isometris, quinque dupl6 longioribus ;. stigmatibus filiformibus, tubo 

 brevioribus, in capsula persistentibus. 



N.B. — Lanugo sensim crescente scapo obsolescit. 



var. /3. Stipite viridiore, corolla lutea dimidio minore, umbella magis 



composita et numerosiflora, pedunculis pubescentioribus, stigmatibus 

 provectioribus. — W. H. 



" This beautiful little Oxalis flowered at Spofforth in 

 August and September; the seed, which was brought by 

 Mr. Cumming from Chili, having been sown in a small 

 pot standing out of doors at the beginning of July. The 

 appearance of the little pot containing four or five seedlings, 

 which produced a constant succession of blossom, expand- 

 ing without sunshine on the wettest days, was very pleasing. 

 It may be considered as a perfectly hardy annual, but will 

 probably not last a second season. An inferior variety 

 was raised from another parcel of seed, collected also by 

 Mr. Cumming in Chili, with much smaller flowers, of a 

 rather paler yellow, the stem less red, the down on the 



* See fol. 1249. 



