Obder 34.— the JEWEL-WEEDS. 



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stamens 10, monadelphoiis, hypogynous, the alternate ones longest ; 

 carpels 5, united and forming in fruit a 5-oelled pod ; seeds albuminous. 



OX'ALIS. Wood Sorrel. 



Sepals 5, distinct or united 



at base, persistent. Petals 

 much longer than the sepals. 

 Stamens united at the base. 

 Styles 6. Capsule roundish or 

 pod-shaped, cells several-seed- 

 ed! Herbs mostly y, with 

 trifoliate leaves. 



1 O. Acetosel'la. Wood Soml. FIs. 



white, with purple veins. Plant 

 acaulescent, arising from a 

 creeping root-stock, c. N. Ju. 



2 O. viola'cea. Violet W. Flowers 



violet-purple. Plant acaules- 

 cent, arising from a scaly bulb. 

 Scape with an umbel. May. 



3 O. stricta. Tellow W.. Flowers 



yellow. Plantwith leafy stems, 

 weak, branched. Flowers um- 

 belled. Grows everywhere. 



Fig. 425. Oxalis Acetosella. In the plan of the flower, c*, the 5 carpels in the centre; 

 It, the 10 stamens in two rows; p, the 5 petals; c, the 5 sepals. Fig. 426. The ripe pod. 



Order XXXIV. BALSAMINACE.^. The Jewel-weeds. 



Herbs annual, with a fleshy stem, watery .juice, and simple leaves ; 

 flowers very irregular and unsymmetrioal ; calyx spurred ; 

 stamens 5, on the torus ; pod bursting by 5 elastic valves. 



IMPA'TIENS. Touch-me-not. 



Sepals colored, apparently but 4 (the 2 upper being united), the lowest 

 (y) enlarged into a sac tipped with a bent spur. Petals 4, united into 2 

 double ones {p., p). Stamens 5, short, the anthers united over tlje pistil. 



