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XXIII. STAPIIYLEACE-^. 



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below. Caps, angular, 5-celIed. Seeds with an elastic inte 

 ment. — Named from o^vq^ sharp or acid. 



1. O. Acetosella L. (common W.)\ leaves all radical ternate 

 leaflets inversely heart-shaped hairy, scape single-flowered root 

 scaly. E. B. t. 762. ' 



Woods and shady places, frequent ; also at a great elevation on the 

 mountains, among shady rocks, 0. 5, and on the mountains till 8. 

 Leaf-stalks long and slender, reddish. Leaflets drooping at ni(j*ht. 

 Scape with two scaly hracteas. Flowers handsome, drooping, white 

 with purplish veins. The leaves have a most agreeable acid flavour' 



This appears to be the original Seamrog or Shamrock of Ireland • 

 although the name has long been applied to the much less beauti- 

 ful Trifolium repens or Dutch Clover, both in the Irish and Gaelic 

 lanojua'xes. 



2. O. co?mictddta L. (yellow procumbent TF.) ; stem branched 

 branches pro(;umbent, peduncles mostly 2-flowered shorter than 

 the ternate leaves, stipules united to the base of the petioles 

 E. B. t. 1726. 



Shady waste ground, chiefly in the extreme south of England, 

 Devonshire. ©. 6 — 9, 



(O. strlcta L. is stated to be naturalized in gardens near Penzance* 

 at Ilsington, Devon; in fields near Northam, North Devon; and in 

 an Orchard at Cuckfield, Sussex. This latter station is generally 

 given for 0. corniculnta^ from which 0. stricta differs by havinf^ a 

 more upright, less branched stents more numerous and often whorled 

 leaves, with longer flower -stalks and several flowers in an tanbel, and 

 no evident stipules at the base of the petioles.) 



Ord. XXIII. STAPHYLEACE^. LindL 



Sepals 5, connected at the base, imbricated in jestivation- 

 Petals 5, alternate with the sepals, inserted into or under the 

 margin of a free crenate concave hypogynous disk, imbricated 

 in aestivation. Stamens 5, opposite the sepals, inserted into th* 

 margin of the disk. Ovary free, of 2- 



2 — 3 distinct or combined. 



more or less cohering. 



Styles 



3 carpels distinct or 



J^?'MzY membranous, chartaceous, or fleshy. Seeds globose, bony, 

 with a large truncate hilum^ little or no albumen^ thick cotyledons 

 and short radicle. — Shrubs. Leaves usually opposite^ pinnate^ 

 with common and partial deciduous stipules. Flowers in terminal 

 stalked racemes. 



1. Staphyjlka iz?iw. Bladder-N^ut. 



Cal. coloured. Pet. erect during flowering. Carpels united 

 more or less at the base. Caps, membranaceous, bladdered.- 

 Name from ararpvXr]^ a bunch of grapes^ its flowers being m 

 racemes. 



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