r)S4 ri.ANT 1-lI'K (»I- AI.\i:\M\. 



KUKon . 



Natiir:ili/<Ml ; widely dilViisod on tin' I'acilic coaHt IVoiii ISriliHli Colmiibia to soiitb- 

 »'in t'alilornia. K'aro in tin- Adaiilic Slates. 



Al.Ait.\M.\: Advent ivc with ballast. Mobile; .lime. K'are. Observed lor He vera 1 

 seiusoiiH inatnriii;i seeds well. Aimnal. 



iMoimiiiie uses: ( Onsidered on llie raeilic as (uieut llio nioHt valuable wild pas- 

 ture plants. 



Tyjie loealitv : " I lab, in Kmop.ie HleriiiliMs en His." 



ll"eib. (;ool. Snrv. lleib. M.dir. 



OXALIDACEAE. Wood-sorrel Family. 

 OXALis 1,. sp. ri.i: i:::!. \-->:i.' 



About l'(Ml species, ehietly <»r tropieal Anwrica, South Africa. North Annnii-.i 17, 

 Atlantic S. 



Oxalis coraiculata L. Sji. I'l. 1:1;;,"). 17.58. Cijkepi.nc S()1:i:ki.. 



Ell. Sk. 1:.-)L'(). Gr.iv. Man. ed. tJ, 10.5. Chap. I'l. ed.3,65. Coulter, Contr. Nat. 

 Herb. 2:51'. Wats, lio't. Calif. 1:96. 



Kchoim;, NoiniiKKX Aiuu a, A.'^ia, Mkxico. Cosmopolitan. 



Carolinian and Lonisianian areas. Indigenous in the interior in Missouri, 

 Arkansas. Texas, and Calilbrnia, and Irom all appearances in the Gulf States. 



Alahama: Cultivated and waste places. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Lee 

 County, Auburn (Jlalwi- cf- Earlr, 103). Mobile. Flowers yellow; March, JIay. 

 Not rare. Easily recognized by the low prostrate habit of its growth. Perennial 

 from a creeping rootstock. 



Ty]>e locality: " Hab. in Italia, Sicilia." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Ozalis striata L. 8p. PI. 1:435. 1753. Common Vkllow Soukkl. 



Oxalis corniciildta \;\T stricta Sav. in Lam. I'ncvcl. 4:0)^3. 1797. 



Kll. Sk. l:.5L'(i. Gray, Man. e<l. (J, 105, in ])art. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 65. Coulter, 

 Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 52. Uritt. <Sc Br. 111. Fl. 2 : 346. 



Stem mostly simple, erect or branched at the base from a slender perennial root- 

 stock, 6 to 8 inches high; leaves smoothish or strigosely pubescent, f inch to 1^ 

 inches wide; leaflets little wider than long. Heshy, suniothish, ciliate, broadly eniar- 

 ginate, the cellular structure prominent under the lens; peduncles nmbellate, 

 longer th;in the leaves, 2 to 6 inches long, axillary from the clustered lea ve.s; pedi- 

 cels i to i inch long, almost horizontally deflexed in fruit; pods columnar, 

 abruptly pointed Avith the short styles, ^ to J inch long, seed somewhat acute at 

 the base Avith strong interrupted transverse ridges. Flowers yelli>w, small. 



Alleghenian to Lonisianian area. Canada; New England to JJakota, south to the 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



Ar.AHAMA: Over the State. In low damj) ground, grassy banks, lields, and woods. 

 Flowers May. Connnon. Annual or i)erennial. 

 Tyi)e locality : "Hab. in Virginia."' 

 Herb. Mohr. 



Oxalis recurva Ell. Sk. 1:526. 1817. Large-i i.ovvkukd Wood Sorrel. 



i:il Sk.l. c. Cha].. Fl. ed.3,65. Britt. «fe Br. 111. Fl. 2 : 347. 



A 'vore slender plant than the above, perennial. Stems mostly several from the 

 wiry stolonilerons rhi/.oma, rigid, scarcely over 6 inches in length; leallets thin- 

 ner, about f inch wide and scarcely as long, the cellular structure less prominent 

 under the lens; ]>ednncles slender, nmbellate, longer than the leaves, hirsute with 

 etriguse adpressed hairs; p(!dicels 2 to 4 in the nmbellate cluster, almost filiform, 

 incurved and at length retlexed; ])()d acuminate, crowned with the long styles; 

 seeds with uninterrupted transverse ridges. -' 



Carolinian and Lonisianian area. Northwestern Virginia at sea level, southwestern 

 Virginia at 2,000 feet; southeastern Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina at 

 sea leveL 



' J. K. Small. Two species of Oxalis, Bull. Torr. Clnb, vol. 21, pp. 471 to 479. 1894. 

 Same author, A neglected species of Oxalis and its relatives, op. cit., vol. 23, pp. 265 

 to 2(i!». 1X96. 



- See J. K. Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 471, t. 222. 



