Order 34.— THE JEWEL-WEEDS. 



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stamens 10, monadelphous, hypogynons, the alternate ones longest; 

 carpels 5, united and forming in fruit a 5-celled pod ; seeds albuminous. 



OX' ALTS. Wood Sorrel. 



Sepals 5, distinct or united 

 at base, persistent. Petals 

 much longer than the sepals. 

 Stamens united at the base. 

 Styles 5. Capsule roundish or 

 pod-shaped, cells several-seed- 

 ed. Herbs mostly y, with 

 trifoliate leaves. 



1 O. Acetosel''la. Wood Sorrel. Fls. 



■white, with purple veins. Phmt 

 acaulescent, arising from a 

 creeping root-stock, c. N. Ju. 



2 O. viola'cea, Violet W. Flowers 



violet-purple. Plant acaules- 

 cent, arising from a scaly bulb. 

 Scape with an umbel. May. 

 8 O. stricta. Yelloio W. Flowers 

 yellow. Plant with leafy stems, 

 weak, branched. Flowers um- 

 belled. Grows everywhere. 425 



Fig. 425. Oxalis Acetosella, In the plan of the flower, o, the 5 carpels in the centre! 

 «, the 10 stamens in two rows; p, the 5 petals; c, the 5 sepals. Fig. 426. The ripe pod. 



Order XXXIY. BALSAMINACE^. The Jewel-weeds. 



Eerls annual, with a fleshy stem, watery juice, and simple leaves; 

 flowers very irregular and unsymmetrical ; calyx spurred; 

 stamens 5, on the torus ; pod bursting by 5 elastic valves. 



IMPA'TIENS. Touch-me-uot. 



L Sepals colored, apparently but 4 (the 2 upper being united), the lowest 



(y) enlarged into a sac tipped with a bent spur. Petals 4, united into 2 

 double ones (j?, p). Stamens 5 short, the anthers united over the pistil. 



