Order 34.— THE JEWEL-WEEDS. 



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

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



OX' ALTS. Wood Sorrel. 



Sepals 0, 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 2^, with J j 

 trifoliate leaves. 



1 O. Acetoseria, Wood Sorrel. Fls. 



white, \Yith purple veins. Plant 

 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 Wulb. 

 Scape with an umbel. May. 

 8 O. stricta. Yellow W. Flowers 

 yellow. Plant with leafy stems, 

 weak, branched. Flowers um- 

 belled. Grows everywhere. 



Fig. 425. Oxalis Acetosella. In the plan of the flower, 

 8, the 10 stamens in two rows; p, the 5 petals; c, the 5 sepals, 



the 5 carpels hi the centre. 

 Fig. 426. The ripe pod. 



Order XXXIV. BALSAMINACE^. The Jewel-weeds. 



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

 flowers very irregular and unsymmetrical ; calyx spurred ; 

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



IMPA'TIENS. Touch-me-not. 



Sepals colored, apparently but 4 (the 3 upper being united), the lowest 

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

 double ones (jk», p). Stamens 5 short, the anthers united over the pistil. 



