OXALIS. 
and, if we miftake not, indicate this to be the female plant; 
~ the former the male. 
O. crifpa, t. 23, ‘and leporina, t. 25, two whitifh-flowere d 
{pecies of this ie€tion, in both which the /fyles {urmount all 
the spice may probably be diftinét, as differing confider- 
ir eaves, though otherwife nearly related to 
ably in 
each o a 
Se&. 3. With ternate Leaves, and a fingle- cinta Stalk. 
Here Willdenow has thirty -two “Spe 
O. ihr angi Woed paid 
Willd. n. 8. oe ae 
flower “7 Leaflet emargina 
ftalks.—Nearly sled ra oni fnina, though unqueftionably a 
very diftinc {pecies. . The /eaflets are ternate, broad, obo- 
vate and emarginate, quite entire, without any cartilaginous 
aiks alfo very bro lowers 
Jacq. t. 
— ote 
edge. Wings of the /votfa ad. 
yellow, very pale at the ba vernal [ glandular and 
rather fhort, with five prominent teeth bafe. Styles 
of an intermediate length between the nee and fhorter 
rena a Wood Sorrel. Jacq. t. 
em none. Stalks Gale 
ufe, downy 5 3 the pine ones 
oO. ne 9. 
aflet Soba apieie f 
e an 
flow Le abe 
dilated, the middle one contracted, 
red. Petals yellow, externally downy. There are a few 
glandular hairs, befides the fimple ones, on the calyx of /a- 
burnifolia, and the teeth of its longer famens are rather 
fhorter and thicker than in the other, which, all things con- 
fidered, soon | fhews joe charadters to be variab 
©. Acetofella. Common Wood Sorrel. Linn. 8 
rit. n. I. aa Bo 
bared Med. os te 20. 
oo 
es 
Styles and ftamens 
0 r 
ing a ‘eles 
flower, whofe white or ‘bluth. colou 
age touch, by means of their i oni or tunic. 
me old authors have named this plant Lujula, whi 
italiane are -faid to have earl into Alleluia ; and 
then, to account for this novel appellation, ala uppofed it 
e fame ee “has Tipe “the 
medicinal ufe of this very grateful prepa 
; Se Bordered Wood al. ace: t. 68. 
Willd. 7.—Stem none. Flower-ftalk fingle-flowered, 
but half i length of the footitalks. Leaflets fquarifh, 
aed ara Calyx fringed. Stamens without teeth.—The 
root 18 bulbous, with a {mooth coat. Leaves dark green, 
’ four deafiets on a ftalk. Cavanilles faw it i 
downy, broad and fhort, on red ftalks, ae | a denfe tuft. 
" : 
& 
female variety, 
here being nothing that ‘indicates a fccine aoa but 
abe a peculiar conformity, in the reft of the plant 
Se&t. 4. With ternate Leaves, and a many, ro Stalk, 
Nine Species in Willdenow 
O. megalorrhiza. Great-rooted Wood Sorrel. Jac cq: 
Oxal. 33. Willd. age ee ue flore, radice craf- 
fiffima; Feuill. Peruv. 734. t. 25.)-——Stem none. 
Stalk umbellate. Leaflets prceney ‘heart- fhaped. 
very nay much branched at the fummit. ae ah of the 
mountains o Peru _ «ti is known only fro 
g he flowers are 
aa three caches high. The a: are Seren. with 
re 
0. “retraphylla. po aaa Wood Sorrel. Cavan. Ic. 
n. 43, feems a molt trifling Vae 
ae of the following: which ha appens to ns fometimes 
the garden at 
Madrid, to which it was fent from Mexico 
Violet rar giae Wood Sorrel. 
are Hort. he t.180. Oxal. t. 80. 
- 44. pp —Stem none. Stalk um- 
bellate, beeedly yoni) gone at Leaves ins 
verfely heart-fhaped, fringed. — Native of Virginia and 
Canada. Mr. Aiton, like Jacquin, marke j it asa Hae ee 
plant, flowering in May and June. The roofs are bulbous,. 
Linn. Sp. 
aggregate, with el e a Leaves numerous, 
ee roadly obcordate, on ftal out a fpan high. 
wer-fialks rather at umbellate, metimes, re no 
0 
conti forked, with a folitary intermediate 
The bloffoms are at Grit piesa then ere&, ak Cie 
recurved, ftriated, light purple ts Tips of the calyx- 
leaves fometimes abrupt and glandular 
Se&. 5. — ternate Leaves, fingle- cg lei an and & 
m naked below. Fiftee 
O. oa. "Fringe tesed Wood . a 30. 
Willd. n. .—Stem erect, fim Leaves 
cluttered at its top. Tae elipie-oblongs emarginae, 
hairy. Bra€teas linear, clofe t fl —From the 
Cape. Sent by Mr. Maffon in 1 . tisa fecat h 
set Stem vaasee or — rae high, = leafiefs, except 
t the top, where isa clu merous, glaucous, ade 
fern leaves, oF a aan lita form, with a n at 
end. Flowers red, on fimple /faiks taller fina the 
een with a ta ir of Sais linear bradeas clofe to the 
The ffyles rife above all the flamens, and like them 
Glandular Wood Sorrel. Jacq. t. 31, 
Ait. n. 30.—Stem decumbent, fimple, naked 
below. —Leaves chaltera at itstop. Leaflets 
BraGeas linear, clofe. to the flower. am en 
Jacq. 
er but confider it however a 
Jacq. t. 32, for the fame reafons that have led to our pre- 
ceding opinions. The /fyles are very fhort in arcuata, very 
long in Anearis. 
O. natans. Floating Wot —_ Linn. Suppl. 243. 
Willd. 
illd 
