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2. L. Boottii, Planchon. Leaves linear, acute; flowers scattered in cymose 
racemes ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved, fringed with glandular hairs ; styles 
united below the middle; capsule imperfectly 10-celled, globose. — Dry soil, 
North Carolina and northward. July. — Stems 1°- 2° high. Flowers larger 
than in No. 1, sulphur-yellow. 
3. L. striatum, Walt. “Flowers terminal; leaves subovate, alternate, 
the nerve and margins decurrent on the stem ; stem branched, striate.” — South 
Carolina, Walter. (*) 
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Orver 30. OXALIDACEZE. (Woonp-SonnEL FAMILY.) 
Chiefly herbs, with sour juice, alternate compound leaves, and regular 
hypogynous decandrous flowers. — Sepals 5, imbricated in the bud, per- 
sistent. Petals 5, convolute in the bud, deciduous. Stamens more or less - 
united. Styles 5, distinct. Ovary 5-celled. Capsule 5-celled, the cells 
few-seeded. Seeds anatropous, pendulous. Embryo straight in the axis 
of fleshy albumen. Cotyledons flat. 
1. OXALIS, L. Woop-Sorret. 
Capsule 5-lobed ; the cells loculicidally dehiscent on the back, 1 —few-seeded. - 
Seed-coat loose and separating. — Leaves 3-foliolate. Leaflets obcordate. — 
1. O. violacea, L. (Purre Woop-Sorret.) Stemless; root tuber- 
ous; scapes umbellately 4 — 6-flowered ; flowers purple, nodding. — Rich woods, 
West Florida to North Carolina, and westward. May and June. — Scapes and 
petioles 5' — 9! high. 
2. O. Acetocella, L. (Warre Woop-Sorret.) Stemless; root creep- 
ing; scape 1-flowered ; flower white, veined with red.— Mountains of North 
Carolina and northward. June. — Scape and petioles hairy, 2/ — 5' high. 
3. O. stricta, L. (YeLLow Woop-Sorrex.) Stems branching, leafy ; 
peduncles axillary, 2 — 6-flowered, longer than the leaves; flowers yellow ; cap- 
sule elongated, erect. — Dry soil, common and varying greatly. April- De- | 
cember. @ and | — O. recurva and O. furcata, Ell, and O. — 
forms of this, . ee 
Orver 31. ZYGOPHYLLACEJE. (Bran-Carer FAMILY.) 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with hard wood, opposite pinnate dotless stipu- _ 
late leaves, and regular hypogynous mostly decandrous flowers. — Sepals- 
and petals 5—6, imbrieated or convolute in the bud. Stamens distinct, 
often appendaged. Xa tet tn Mite Capsu 
