OXALIS CORNICULATA 173 
The first and mipgnosti, reference to the Hortus Cliffortianus, 
p. 175 (1787), reads thus 
“4, Oxalis caule ramoso, eter multifloris. 
y Clus. hist. 2, p. 
Oxys lutea. Bawh. hist. 2, p. 388. Boerh. lugdb. 1, p. 319. 
Oxys lutea corniculata repens. Lob. hist, 495. Dalech. hist. 
1355. 
Oxys. Cesalp. s 
Acetosella flore radi capsula corniculata. oie jen. 102. 
Trifolium acetosum corniculatum. Bauh. 330. 
procumbens 8. hist. 2, p. 183, s. 2, t. 17, f. 2 
Crescit in piers sabi Ttali, Sicilie, circa Hispalim & in 
Mader. 
Oxys ‘ies est ac acidus, quod pro nomine plantarum satis 
late petitum, licet a Plinio habeatur, afb substituo aliud 
Plinianum Oxalis, ab eadem metaphora dictu 
A study of these references makes it evident that all the 
authors se are dealing with the same plant, all basing their 
work on that of Clusius, Lobel, the two Bauhins and Morison. 
Dr. Ro piso (op. cit. 388) himself allows that ‘it is . evident, 
from an examination of the figures of Clusius, Lobelius, and 
Morison, that they had before them the creeping proces: 
stemmed plant . which had always been called O. 
niculata. The plant in Morison’s Sara is stated by dice 
and Druce (Account of Morisonian Herbarium, p. 13) to be the 
Same species. With re pene ard to theo sand S taacesstal references, 
J. Bauhin’s nar 4 i very goo of the same species, a 
Casimier De Cand lle (Bull. Herb. "Bolte. 1904 ; 735) states that 
the ‘cane representing Trifolium acetosum corniculatum in Caspar 
Bauhin n herbarium is rnicu 
It is poly quite clear that in the Species gheseadepe Linnzeus 
has merely given the binominal name O. corniculata to the 
“creeping prostrate-stemmed plant,” so swell set forth by the 
authors whose works are cited. Dr. Robinson considers that 
is more probable that the word is used in mere contradistinction 
to the wuniflorous character of the other common Ozalis, viz. 
O. acetoselia. 
. Robinson’s case for using the name ge is based = 
the fact that “there is still preserved at the useum 
specimen of the plant from the Hortus Ciifortians, whiidh 
exhibits the several-flowered (in the young state umbelliform) 
inflorescence of our species no. 2 [0. stricta auct.], pier — 
es [O. eee? and O. stricta] wi mposite,” and 
pro t that according to both the ; acoalule of whe 
of position an that of residues the name QO. corniculata must be 
