OXA 
From the very infoluble compound which it forms with lime, 
it is a Nea e teft of the latter fubftance. It muft, how- 
ever, be obferved, that the fuper-oxalat of lime is foluble, 
hence the acid fhould not. be pao in excefs. The proper 
way is to ufe the oxalat of amm 
It has the property of diffolving ae red rie of iron in 
common with the citric and tartaric acids, b a greater 
ree. If it could be sound hey it ar be a valuable 
acquifition to the calico prin 
ALIS, in Botany, ie ae four, a name adopted 
from the Greeks; whofe ofas;, however, is probably the 
y vario of their ow 
worth naa: offibly this may be the 
Oxys of Pliny, which he fays bore ternate leaves, and was 
achs.—Lin 
given to perfons with weak ftom n. Gen. 231. 
Schreb. 311. Willd. Sp v. 2.972. Mart. Mill, Dit. 
v.3. Sm. Fl. Brit. 4g1. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. 116 
7 t. 391. 
tn. t. 113. (Oxys; 
Tourn. t. 19.)—Clafs and order, Decandria Pentagynia. 
Nat. Ord. Gerania, Juff. Rather perhaps allied to his 
Cal. Perianth of five, rather fhort, permanent 
tile, elliptical, t 
with five agin fy les bake thread- fhaped, various in length 
3; ftigmasobtufe. Peric. Capfule 
membranous, w s, five cells, and five valves, 
burfting longitudinally at ie angles. Seeds one or more in 
each cell, roundith, flightly compreffed, polifhed, widely 
by their claws. Sta 
the bafe. Capfule amet of five cells, btn at the 
peda wit elaftic tunic of two 
re genus, of which aly. I 2 Teecies 
2 Girt pei of ee a cies ia i 
augmented ae that number i ft. ed. 1 
The eee of recent ae ae % the Cae ‘of Good 
roots will put forth freth leaves. y 
Europe, nor do they indeed all readily 
ft of 
OXA 
Three have fimple, four twin, and fix digitate leaves. 
few a will illuftrate cach of the fections, which are 
nine in a 
Se@. 1. With fimple Leaves. 
O. monophylla. rie ara wee Sorrel. Linn. oe 
241. Thunb. Oxal. I. Jacq. Oxal. t. 79. 
f.3. Willd. n.. ae em none. Stalks fingle- 
owered. Leaves elliptical, obtufe. Filaments fmooth. 
Native of fandy hills at the Cape. Sent by Mr. Maffon to 
Kew in 1774, where it is faid to have iced in O&ober 
and November. The du/b is ovate, about as big as a hazel- 
nut, witha very fibrous coat. Leaves four or five, fcarcely 
an inch long, entire, finely downy at the edges only, on ftalks 
foe the fame length. Flower-flalks taller than ite leaves, 
round, downy. Calyx downy. Corolla pale purple, an inch 
longs ¥i claws. Stamens much fhorter than the 
orolla, all {mooth; five of them very fhort, the reit rifing 
muc e the files aie are clothed at the top only 
with glandular hairs. Pie 
O. le id 
a. Jacq. t 
Holland genus Boronia, and has been cited, by the pales 
of the prefent article, as one indication, atmongit others, of 
another conjecture, that the two fpecies of Oxalis in quettion 
may be fexual varieties; in one of which, effetually male, 
rofirata, the flamens are mof perfedt; in the other, lepida, 
i piftils. Le eile only can fettle this curious oe 
ich appears not to have entered into the min their 
oleae and defcriber, he me apa i feems to 
be the cae ig ordinary ftat me plant, in whic 
the /famens and /tyles bear cae ce base tion to each otner, 
pple sabe’ in mee ee {pecies 
Se&. 2. With twin Leaves. 
O. sa Affes-eared Wood Sorrel. 
se - 4. Ait. n. 3.—Stem none. 
Leaflet seca ae lanceolate. 
e-glandulr, and taller than the ftyles.— 
leaves are numerous, each pair on a winged obovate foot~ 
re leaflets glaucous, two inches or more in length, with 
crenate, cartilaginous edges. 
falls rather taller than the foliage. 
mooth ; the reft glandular, 
jection at their bafe, ~~ ove to nearly twice the height of 
the flyles, which feems to be their moft proper and ufual 
proportion in this us. 
We cannot but oaks the fame remark as in the former 
feGtion, refpe€ting Janceafolia, (an ill-conftru€ed name), 
Jacq. t. 26; which though fubje& to have fome ternate 
leaves, fcarcely differs otherwife trom the afinina, except in 
having the /lamens all {mooth, without a projection at the 
bafe, on nearly of equal length, feemingly feeble and im- 
perfe&t, while the vigorous /éyles rile much above them, 
and, 
Jacq. 
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