324 DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Agrosterama. 



the south of Italy, the Wood-sorrel is said to be called Juliola, 

 barbarously corrupted, as Bauhin observes, into Alleluja ; whence J 

 also came its medical name Litjula. 1 



2. O. coriiiculata. Yellow Procumbent Wood-sorrel. 



Stem branched, procumbent. Flower-stalks in small um- - 

 bels. Stipulas united to the base of the footstalks. ■^ 



O. corniculata. Linn. Sp. PI. 623. Willd. v. 2.800. Berkenh. Outl. 



v.2.\27. Syn.v. 2. \4]. Fl. Br. 492. Engl. Bot. v. 24. t. 1726. 



Hook. Scot. 141. Hopk. Glott. 60. Jacq. Oxal. 30. t. 5. Ehrh. 



Herb. 136. 

 O. pusilla. Salish. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 2. 243. t. 23. /. 5. 

 Oxys n. 929. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 402. 

 O. lutea, Ger. Em. 1202./. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 388./. 

 O. lutea corniculata. Dalech. Hist. 1355. f. 

 O. flavo flore. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 249. f. 

 Trifolium acetosum. Cam&r. Epit. 584./. 1 . 

 T. acetosum corniculatum. Bauh. Pin. 330. 



In shady, rather moist, waste ground. 



About Exeter ; Mr. J. Turner. Berkenhout. Abundant in several 

 parts of Devonshire. Engl. Bot. Near Cuckfield, Sussex ; Mr. 

 Fearon. Mrs. Charlotte Smith. Not far from Stirling. Dr. Ha- 

 milton, late Buchanan. On a wall between the Avon and Barn- 

 cluith. Mr. Hopkirk. 



Annual. May — October. 



Root fibrous. Stems several, spreading widely on the ground, artd 

 often taking root, round, reddish, downy, leafy. Leaves alter- 

 nate, or occasionally opposite, on long spreading footstalks; 

 leaflets inversely heart-shaped, downy, acid like the former. <Sii- 

 pw /as lanceolate, attached in pairs to the base of each footstalk ; 

 by the want of which in 0. stricta Mr. Salisbury has well distin- 

 guished the latter, now become almost a weed in gardens, though 

 reported to be of American origin. The flowers of O. corniculata, 

 which owes its name to the oblong capsule, contrasted with O. 

 Acetosella, grow scarcely more than 2 together, on axillary stalks. 

 The petals are yellow, strongly combined. Stam. in like nganner 

 monadelphous. Seeds numerous in each cell. 



241. AGROSTEMMA. Cockle. 



Linn. Gen. 231. Juss. 302. Fl. Br. 492. Gcertn. t. 130. 



Nat Ord. Caryophyllece. Linn. 22. Juss. 82. See «. 232 — 

 237, and n. 242 — 244. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, tubular, coriaceous, strongly ribbed, 

 5-toothed, permanent. Pet. 5 ; their claws as long as the 

 tube of the calj'x ; border spreading, obtuse. Filain. awl- 



