324 DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Agrostemma. 



the south of Italy, the Wood-sorrel is said to be called JuUola, 

 barbarously corrupted, as Bauhin observes, in to .4ZZeZi(/'a; whence 

 also came its medical name Lujula. 



2. O, cornicidata. Yellow Procumbent Wood-sorrel. 



Stem branched, procumbent. Flower-stalks in small um- 

 bels. Stipulas united to the base of the footstalks. 



O. corniculata. Linn. Sp. PL 623. Wllld. v. 2. 800. Berkenh. Outl. 



v.2.127. Sijn.v. 2. 14). FL Br. 492. Engl. Bot. v. 24. t.\72Q. 



Hook. Scot. 141. Hopk. Glott. 60. Jacq. Oxal. 30. t. 5. Ehrh. 



Herb. 136. 

 O. pusilla. Salisb. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 2. 243. t. 23. /. 5. 

 Oxys n. 929. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 402. 

 O. lutea. Ger. Em. 1202./. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 388./. 

 O. lutea corniculata. Dalech. Hist. 1355./ 

 O. flavo flore. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 249. f. 

 Trifolium acetosum. Camer. Epit. C)S4.f. I. 

 T. acetosum corniculatum. Bauh. Pin. 330. 



In shady, rather moist, waste ground. 



About Exeter ; Mr. J. Turner. Berkenhout. Abundant in several 

 parts of Devonshire. Engl. Bot. Near Cuckfield, Sussex ; Mr. 

 Fearon. Mrs. Charlotte Smith. Not far from Stirling. Dr. Ha- 

 milton, late Buchanan. On a wall between the Avon and Barn- 

 cluith. Mr. Hopkirk. 



Annual. May — October. 



Root fibrous. Sterns several, spreading widely on the ground, and 

 often taking root, round, reddish, downy, leafy. Leaves alter- 

 Viate, or occasionally opposite, on long spreading footstalks; 

 leaflets inversely heart-shaped, downy, acid like the former. >S/i- 

 ;w /as lanceolate, attached in pairs to the base o^ e^ich footstalk ; 

 by the want of which in O. stricta Mr. Salisbury has well distin- 

 guished the latter, now become almost a weed in gardens, though 

 reported to be of American origin. Tho: flowers of O. corniculata, 

 which owes its name to the oblong capsule, contrasted with O. 

 Acetosella, grow scarcely more than 2 together, on axillary stalks. 

 The petals are yellow, strongly combined. Stam. in like manner 

 monadelplious. Seeds numerous in each cell. 



241. AGROSTEMMA. Cockle. 



Linn. Gen. 231. Juss. 302. Fl. Br. 492. Gcvrtn. t. 130. 



Nat. Ord. C«rj/o/^%ZZ^^. Linn. 22. Juss. 82. See??. 232 — 

 237, and 7i. 24-2—244. 



Cal, inferior, of 1 leaf, tubular, coriaceous, strongly ribbed, 

 5-toothed, pennanent. Pet. 5 ; their claws as long as the 

 tube of the calyx ; border spreading, obtuse. Filam. awl- 



