OXALIS CORNICULATA AND ITS ALLIES 891 
an excellent and highly characteristic specimen ‘ex herb. ig oe 
now in the Gray Herbarium, and by another collected by 
Jermyn, ‘ex herb. W. W. Newbould,” at ae: British Museum Fran 
France the following specimens have been examined :—Pont de 
d i n 
la commune ‘Tale stele de Limoges (Haute Vienne)": and no. 2645 
of Billot’s Fl. Gall. et Germ. exsicc. ae ‘* Se reproduisant spontané- 
ment dans un jardin & Besangon (Doubs). The wide distribution 
of this species in America (where obviously indigenous), its limited 
specially ees its i 
given in the French exsicecat#, render it probable that it is of 
American origin, and merely introduced in Europe. 
O. 8 unb. Main stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes 
and extensively creeping; floriferous branches short, erect; no sub- 
terranean stolons; inflorescences mostly 1-2-flowered ; aire? 
usually deflexed in fruit——Thunb. Oxal. 16 (1781) ; Jacq. Oxal. 3 
t. 78, f. 1 (1794). O. corniculata L. Spec. Pl. i. 435 (1758), as +5 
ipsa pl. figured by Clusius, Bauhin, Morison, &c.; Jacq. Oxal. 
80, t. 5 (1 794), and most Kuropean and recent American authors, 
Fl. Germ 
examined from the Mediterranean Region, the oe Islands, 
South Africa, British India, China, and several of the Pacific 
Islands, as well as fr om various parts of the United Sta 
B 
of pi a shows that the “ Ozalis stricta ” in . corniculata ” 
of English authors should be reversed, that the ‘congaaaital wo, 
stricta’’ should be O. eligi that the continental ** O. cornicu- 
lata’’ should be 0. repens, and, finally, that the true 0. stricta, in- 
digenous and widely Visteibuted 3 in North America, occurs in South- 
estern England, on the Channel Islands, and in Central and 
bers France, itinks it has been passing as O. Navieri. e 
pram shares any regret which may be felt regarding the pear 
of so much change in current and long-established usage, but se 
no way eof avoiding it without an arbitrary and inconsistent ake 
ment of the species concerned. , 
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. 
