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tals retuse obovate. On the cliffs of the River 

 Kentucky, 8 to 12 inches high, flowers large 

 pale yellow, estival. 



247. OXALIS CESPITOSA Raf. creeping, ces- 

 pitose pilose, stems assurgent, petiols filiform, 

 folioles obcordate ciliate, sinus acute, pedun- 

 cles filiform longer than ieaves 2-3flore, pedi- 

 cels equal to flowers, bracks linear, petals obo- 

 vate double of calix, capsules piloseGlades of 

 West Kentucky and West Tennessee, abund- 

 ant, vernal, found in May and June 1823: near 

 to O. lyoni, 3 to 5 inches, forming small tufts, 

 leaves small, flowers large one inch broad pale 

 or lemon color. 



248. CAPSELLA ACUTIFOLIA Raf. stem simple 

 smooth, radical leaves short pinnatiiid, pinnules 

 ovatoblong dentate acute, stem leaves sagittate 

 lanceolate very acute subentire amplexicaule, 

 raceme naked, silicules short deltoid hardly 

 emarginate, pedicels long filiform spreading. 

 In the Alleghany mts. pedal annual with white 

 flowers and estival, as all the sp. of this Genus 

 of Mench, Ventenat and Decandole, who ad- 

 mits of only one sp. C. bursa, with 4 varieties 

 minor, integrif. coronopif. apetala ; but I 

 have 8 or 10 sp. in my herbal, whereof 6 from 

 N. America, and many more exist perhaps in 

 Africa and Asia. 



249. CAPSELLA INTEGRIFOLIA Raf. Var. do 

 Dec ? stem slender simple radical leaves cun- 

 eate acute, attenuate in petiol at the base, quite 

 entire, stem leaves oblong acute sessile not sa- 

 gittate entire, silicules deltoid emarginate 

 Hills of Pennsylv. and Kentucky, semipedal, 

 certainly as distinct a sp. as can be ! leaves 

 not even toothed as in the next, nor sagittate 

 above. 



