ORDER 34—THE JEWEL-WEEDS. 181 
stamens 10, monadelphous, hypogynous, the alternate ones longest; 
carpels 5, united and forming in fruit a 5-celled 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 5. Capsule roundish or 
pod-shaped, cells several-seed- 
ed. Herbs mostly 2, with 
trifoliate leaves. 
1 O. Acetosel’la. Wood Sorrel. Fis, 
white, with purple veins. Plant 
acaulescent, arising from a 
creeping root-stock. co. N. Ju. 
2 O. viola’cea, Violet W. Flowers 
violet-purple. Plant acaules- 
cent, arising from a scaly bulb. 
Scape with an umbel. May. 
8 O. stricta. Yellow W. Flowers 
yellow. Plant with leafy stems, 
weak, branched. Flowers um- 
belled. Grows everywhere. 
Fig. 425. Oxalis Acetosella, In the plan of the flower, 0, the 5 carpels in the centre: 
8, the 10 stamens in two rows; p, the 5 petals; ¢, the 5 sepals. Fig. 426. The ripe pod. 
OrpER XXXIV. BALSAMINACEA. The Jewel-weeds. 
Herbs annual, with a fleshy stem, watery juice, and simple leaves; 
jlowers very irregular and unsymmetrical ; calyz 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 asac tipped with a bent spur. Petals 4, united into 2 
double ones (p, p). Stamens 5 short, the anthers united over the pistil. 
