28 CALYCLFLOE^. 



A small, softly hairy plant, distinguished from the other two by 

 its leaves, which are ovate heart-shaped, crenated and stalked. 

 Flower-stalks bearing one or two small reddish-purple flowers ; 

 boak of the seed much shorter than in E. moschatum. Paignton 

 sands. Teignmouth. (E. B. t. 646.) P. V.-ix. 



OED. XXI. BALSAMINACEJE, 



OED. XXIT. OXALIDACE^l, 

 OXALIS. WOOD-SORREL. 



1. O. Acetosella (common W.) Tn woods and shady places, 

 frequent. A delicate and beautiful little plant. Leaves all grow- 

 ing from the root on long stalks, with 3 inversely heart-shaped 

 leaflets. Flower-stalks also radical, bearing a single, rather large, 

 white flower with purplish streaks. The leaves have a slightly 

 acid taste. The original of the Irish Shamrock, though now re- 

 placed by the far less beautiful Dutch Clover. Cockington lanes. 

 Berry Pomeroy woods. Woods about Gidleigh, near Chagford. 

 Copses on the banks of the Erme, near Ivybridge. (E. B. t. 762.) 



P. Y. 



2. O. corniculata (yellow procumbent W.) Tn shady waste 

 grounds. Stem spreading, with decumbent branches ; leaves of 

 3 inversely heart-shaped leaflets. Flower-stalks axillary, slender, 

 carrying an umbel of from 2 to 5 small pale-yellow flowers. 

 Teignmouth. Exmouth Warren. (E. B. t. 1726.) A. vi-ix. 



OED. XXIII. STAPHYLEACEJE, 



SUB-CLASS II. CALYCIFLOR^S (OED. XXIV.-XLIX.) 

 OED. XXIV. CELASTRACEJE. 

 EUONYMUS. SPINDLE-TREE. 



E. Europseus (common S.) In woods and hedges. A shrub, 

 standing from 3 to 6 feet high, with green and smooth bark, and 

 four-angled branches. Leaves somewhat oval and lanceolate, finely 



