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THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
* 
Oxalis - continued. 
caulescent, rarely suffruticose. Three or four species 
are found in the temperate regions, one or two are 
broadly dispersed between the tropics, and the rest 
are almost equally distributed through South Africa, 
tropical and sub-tropical America, and extra-tropical 
South America. Flowers yellow, pink, or white, some- 
times dimorphous, regular, on axillary or radical, one or 
more flowered peduncles; sepals five, imbricate; petals 
five, contorted. Leaves radical or cauline, exstipulate, 
alternate; digitately or pinnately tri- to many-foliolate ; 
leaflets entire or emarginately bilobed. Stipules scale- 
like, adnate to the petioles, or none. All the species 
are of very easy culture, and thrive best in sandy soil, 
and in a warm and dry situation. They are interesting 
and pretty as borders to other plants, or when forming 
large masses among the latter. They are also suited for 
points of rockwork, associated with ferns, or when forming 
masses in nooks or corners in woods, or on the turf. 
2 for the taller-growing species, The plants root fast, 
a and spread rapidly. species are most effective 
pot-plants, and may either be kept under glass all the 
year round, or laid on their sides out of doors, when 
dormant, and thoroughly dried off. Propagated by seeds, 
by cuttings, and by divisions of the root. The species 
here described are greenhouse perennials, except where 
otherwise stated. 
(Acetosella).* 
Common Wood Sorrel. 
uberu- 
orthern 
obcordate, 
than the. leaves, one- flowered. S pring. 
A. Zin. 
lous. Root of many scaly joints, creepin 
hemisphere (Britain). (Sy. En. B. 310.) Of t his perennial s 2 
there is a very interesting but somewhat rare variety, with deep 
rose-purple flowers, 
O. arenaria (sand-loving),* — violet-purple, lin. to 1}in. 
across, 3 d in Lin umbels af * ee to tu. kor three or — 
ane sessile, bilo! bordate leaflet, glancons beneath. Rhizome of 
Y Be he Ain. Chili, 1 Half-hardy perennial. (B. M. 
©. articulata ( me) t mauve- lin, in diameter, 
viel on fs 1 ar K trifoliolate, with 
== = Fa 3 — t . with reddish 
8 ones wood y» . to 3in. high. South 
A very distinct plan (B. M. 6748.) 
Barrelieri (Barrelier’s).* fl. Bone ellow, with two oran n- 
55 at the base of each lamina, a ton cy thm ii united 
claws; peduncles polilary, from the upper — 
coon oh April. J. spreading; sane — rhombeo- 
ovate, glabrous. Stem Sin. to 12in. hi; B reenhouse 
annual. (B. M. 3748.) 
o. . (two spotted -· se ET A area with 3 
petals truncate, unequally crenate ; 
panei y n and (as well as he. petioles 2 
i, three, sessile, — iy Pag ubescent 
oan smooth above. k. Ein. Brazil, 1826. (B. N. Nel) 
Fig. 807. OXALIS BOwIEI. 
0. 
Bowiei (Bowie 
large ; poesia ut equal in length to the leaves, umbelli- 
Used as edgings, from 6in. to 12in. apart is sufficiently | 
O. Acetosella f white, 
beautifully veined with purple ; petals N blunt; scapes longer 
AA N yellowish at the base inside, 
f 
Fig, 808. OXALIS CORNICULATA, showing y aa Bin and (a) detached 
Oxalis—continued. 
ferous. August. l., leaflets three, obtuse, almost sessile, ing 
green above, slightly ubescent, underneath, ciliated. A. 
10in. Cape of Good Hope, 1824. An elegant species. ge 
Fig. 807. (B. i. 25; B. R. 1585.) 
O. caprina, Goat’s Foot. fl. bluish flesh-colour, with a yellow 
8 — erect; scape umbelliferous, two or three-flowered. 
March to June. l., leaflets three, obcordately two-lobed, smooth, 
somewhat ciliated. Bulb ovate, triangular. A. Sin. Cape of 
Good Hope, 1757. 
O. carnosa (fleshy). fl. yellow, with obtuse, emarginate, some- 
times denticulated petals; scape two, three, or many. flowered. 
Autumn. “., leaflets nearly sessile, obcordate, fleshy, marked 
beneath with crystalline dots, — 75 short, scaly. Root fusiform. 
h. Fin. to bin. Chili, 1825. (B. M. 2866; B. R. 1065.) 
O. cernua (drooping). fl, yellow, m first drooping; scape um- 
belliferous, many-flowered, Spring. e three, obcordatel: 
two-lobed, smooth, or a little ciliated, bin. Cape of 
Hope, 1757. There i is a variety, 9 having double flowers. 
Bud, (b) Expanded Flower, and (c) Capsule. 
O. corniculata (horned).* fl. yellow, with emarginate 
— — somewhat umbellate. Spring to autumn. ., 2 
t in very 
SEG. 4617 Sy. En. 
O. o. K ty : 1 very eee 1 hardy, annual or bien- 
It is a pretty plant for edging, and for 3 nk — patches 
but it increases so rapidly that it 8 a weed. 
Fic. 809. BULBS OF OXALIS CRENATA. 
ellow, stri with 
P K Tia puni 
O. crenata (scolloped-petaled). 
; peduncles umbel 
petal s crena ; 
onger than the leaves. September. Stem 
i See 
8 leaflets obovate. 
erect, leafy. A. 2ft. Lima, 1829 reenhouse Se 
on OSB F. G. ser. l mesg 2 
3 O. Deppei (Deppe's). A synonym of O. tetraphylla. 
elegans (elegant). * le, large; sepals acumina with 
we spots og — > top oe oe ee eac. hs Beapes Yer very long, two to e 
aly. ee, broad, roundish-obovate, 
violet on the under surface, and, Su 
h. bin. Peru. ti deni stemless. (B. NM. 1480. m oaa, : 
lla (nine-leayed),* white or pale rose-coloured, 
le veins; peduncles cao of the ea June. 
smooth, 
Pc floribunda ee A zynongim of O. ross. 
