AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 39 
runners of a strawberry plant, is the Straw- 
berry Saxifrage, Saxifraga Sarmentosa ; it has 
concave leaves dangling at the end of the long 
stem, and its flowers are like London Pride, 
but having the two lower petals hanging down 
and three upper and smaller ones erect, almost, 
like a little orchid. The Saxifrages are a very 
interesting portion of the Flora of Alpine | 
regions. 
The little Wood-Sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella, 
abundant in woods and copses, and in gardens, 
where it sometimes becomes too plentiful, is 
of Linn. Cl. Decandria, but stands alone in the 
Natural System, giving name to the Nat. Ord. 
Oxatipacez& This well-known plant has 
sensitive leaves, which bend down in the form 
of little pyramids when gathered, or in cloudy 
weather; and its seed vessels, when ripe, 
jerk out their seeds by the contraction of a 
membrane which invests them. We have two 
other species, whose flowers are yellow; but it 
is doubtful whether they are native. I col- 
lected one of them, O. Coruzculata, apparently 
wild, in North Lancashire some years ago; and 
the other, O. stricta, is a weed in our West 
Sussex gardens. The former has the leafy ap- 
