OXALIS CORNICULATA AND ITS ALLIES 887 
Baker, the subject was again taken up. The chief difficulties 
encountered arose not so much from the plants themselves, as in 
the unravelling of the eo ae and in determining the 
precise application of the wan O. corniculata and O. stricta, 
species founded on mixed erate and subject to much confusion 
from the time of their first publication. Several allied species, well 
trail and distribution of the ave been well noted is a 
poss proceed setelinease to the consideration hei 
Taiinclatorial history, or to see what names they should logically 
bear. 
SPE o. 1. Main stems prostrate, regularly rooting at the 
nodes, bik: dostitate of basal filiform s are nean runners ; fertile 
tl 
an 
America, occurring naturally in Italy, Spain, and Florida; like- 
wise found in cooler regions of Europe and America as a frequent 
weed in bares 
SPE no. Br or yellowish green; main stem erect, 
Seetcnbons, or at length aia. not rooting - the nodes except 
rarely at the decumbent ase; soon developing filiform subter- 
ranean stolons; inflorescences 2—7-flowered, + “frst umbelliform, 
but in well-grown individuals becoming cymose ; petioles, nome ae 
and eens covered with a fine widely spreading pubescen 
Sre o. 8. Pale or greyish green, mostly pienser ee but 
iufenee 6 Aeoting at the nodes sp very near the base) nor stoloni- 
ferous; inflorescences chiefi 2-flowered, both pedicels turned to- 
Bearing in mind the nature of cond te oe fds wa pro- 
‘ ceed to the interpretation of the Linnwan specie ich were de- 
scribed in the first edition of the Spectes ; Pilctaiom: is ras yer, as 
follows :— 
11. Oxatis caule ramoso diffuso, pedunculis Sie. 
eris. Hort. cliff. 175. Hort. ups. 116. 
lugdb. 458. Sauv. monsp. 178. Gort. gelr. 91. corniculata, 
Oxys flavo flore. Clus. hist. 2, p. 249. 
Trifolium acetosum corniculatum. Bauh. pin. 
330. eae minus repens et jam procum- 
bens. “is. hist. 2, p. 188, s. 2,t.17, f. 2. 
Habitat in Ttalia, Sicilia. 
sie oh Oxalis lutea ere floribus dentatis. 
ew, per. 3, p. 49, € 
