GERANIACE^E 63 



flowers large, pink, in small umbels with two small 

 bracts at the base, flowering stems springing from the 

 root, leaves all radical, bipinnate, a hairy plant with a 

 goaty smell. E. macradenum, L'He'r., resembling the 

 last, but smaller, less hairy, with a very penetrating 

 odour. 



Order XX. OXALIDE^. 



Flowers regular; seed-vessel a capsule, not beaked, 

 splitting by elastic valves; otherwise like Geraniaceae. 

 A very small order ; not alpine. 



I. OXALIS, L. 



Flower-stalks axillary, one- or several-flowered ; leaves 

 ifoliolate ; whole plant acid. 



Our English Wood Sorrel, O. Acetosella, L., is found 

 where in woods. O. stricta, L., with yellow flowers 

 in small umbels, exstipulate leaves, and underground 

 stolons; and O. corniculata, L., with yellow flowers in 

 small umbels, leaves with small stipules, and no stolons, 

 are weeds in cultivated land. 



Order XXL BALSAM INE^E. 



Flowers irregular ; sepals coloured, the outer one 

 spurred ; seed-vessel a capsule. A very small order, 

 chiefly Indian ; not alpine. 



I. IMPATIENS, L. 



Sepals 3 or 5, two of them very small; petals 3; 

 anthers coherent ; capsule splitting elastically, and throw- 

 ing out the seeds to a distance, the valves then twisting. 



