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12. Oxatis caule eng erecto, pedunculis umbelli- 
f Gron, virg. 161 stricta. 
Oxys Hee ha erectior. T ournef. inst. 80 [88]. 
Trifolium acetosum corniculatum luteum ma- 
jus pe indicum gs. virgineum. Moris. 
84, 3. 2, t. 17, f. 3. 
H abitat in Virginia a. 
An examination of some extant specimens, as well as the pre- 
Linnean literature and figures, shows clearly tha Piltious confused 
under each of these specific heads at least two plants, Tf attention 
Species, which igs sete identifiable by its filiform stolons.* 
the other hand, it igs are evident, from an examination of the 
no. 1. This element, as we have s seen, is in Southern 
Europe, and in this connection it is of interest Fe oaca the Linnean 
habitat, Italy and Sicil ly. 
To pass now to O. os it will be seen that the first reference 
is to Gronovius, whose @ plant was collected by Clayton in Virginia 
Happily this eon of Clayton (no. 474) is ‘still preserved in the 
British Museu and is unmistakably our no. 3, with appressed 
in fr h 
teresting, since, notwithstanding its obvious crudeness and incon- 
' sistency, 5 aovea ec impossible pendulous capsules, it shows clearly 
a Pen nr cymose inflorescence, which can be identified 
our no. 
It is thus evident that both of the Linnean species were compo- 
bone and that w hue O. corniculata rests upon our species nos. 1 
nos. 2 and 8 
ce with one of the most serious oo of modern classification, 
namely, the relative validity of type ee oe subject there has 
never been any detailed or qoutes, ae g, and it is 
much to be regretted that, although the American nesses, 
SU ISGs Peet geet eee ee ere 
may be noted that Linnzeus, in the Hortus Cliffortianus, describes the 
inforestenas of ba plant al tec eet ‘ous, which is an added proof that the 
e in mind was not 1-2- 
lwsesd pededalan ot the creeping species, which habitually has 
