72 OXALIDACEJl. 



VII. [Chelsea College, 1858-61, destroyed in the alterations, J.Britten; 

 Bot. Chron. 57.] Abundant weed in the gardens of a new square at 

 Netting Hill, 1866 and 1867, Naylor {v.s.). Weed in the garden of 

 70 Adelaide Road, N.W., 1857 ; 8i/me (v.s.). 



First record: Britten, 1868. Well naturalised, and getting more com- 

 pletely so. 



OXALIDACE^. 



OXALIS, Linn. 



147. O. acetosella, L. Wood Sorrel. 



Trifoliutii acetosum Oxys Plinii (Johns.). Trif. acet. vvlgare, C. B. P. 



(Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 270 ; Comp. 136. Syme E. B. ii. t. 310. 

 Woods and shady hedgebanks, and under bushes on heaths; rather rare. 



P. April, May. 

 I. Harefield!; Blackst. Fasc. 101. In the Old Park Wood. Pinner; 

 Harrow Weald Common ; 3felv. 19. 

 IV. Wood at Highgate ; Johns. Eric. Bishop's and Turner's Woods, and 



North Heath, Hampstead. Deacon's Hill, Finchley ; Newb. 

 VI. Winchmore Hill Wood. Hadley ! ; Newb. 

 VII. Under the garden wall of Kenwood, at the entrance to Millfield Lane. 

 First record: Johnson, 1629. 



0. corniculata, L. Cyb. Br. i. 271 ; iii. 402. Syme E. B. 311. VII. Ex- 

 tremely abundant, with 0. stricta, on waste ground in Hollywood School 

 playground, Brompton, 1861; in 1864 0. stricta alone remained; 

 Britten. Waste ground about Chelsea College, 1862, J. Britten ; 

 Thyt. N. S. \i. 349. An introduction in these localities. 



148. * O. stricta, L. 



0. corniculata (Cooper). 



Cyb. Br. i. 272 ; iii. 403. Syme E. B. ii. 312. 



A garden weed ; rather rare. A. or P. July — September. 



II. Weed in gardens at Sunbury, B. G. ; Cooper, 114. 



III. Garden ground, Twickenham. 



IV. Under a garden wall by the roadside near the church, Stanmore. 

 V. Garden at Tmnham Green ; Newb. 



VI. Edmonton. 



VII. Parson's Green. Garden of 70 Adelaide Eoad. Hollywood 

 School playground, abundant; waste ground about Chelsea College; 

 Bntten. (Hi^ l^(U, Iji^ 

 First record: Cooper, 1836. Also introduced, but better established 

 about London than 0. corniculata, for which it is often mistaken. 



