OXALIS. 
Willd. n. a Fo n. 35- Thunb. Oxal. 9. t. 1. f. 4. 
Jacq. t == Sten floating, n nee below ea 
cluttered ii ‘ ae. Leaflets nels heart-fhaped, {mooth. 
Calyx fmooth.— Native of pools and ditches at the Cape; 
the flender fem varying in length according to the depth of 
the water, the tufts of /eaves floating on the furface. Flowers 
ere€t, white, yellowith at the bafe, on f imple ftalks, fcarcely 
fo long as the aves. The footfalks in our {pecimens are 
hairy, efpecially their fammits clofe to the caflets. 
verficolor. as Pare ood or ms 
Sp. Pl 622. Wi uo . Pid. 
t. 7. Curt. Mag Jac a eae e anes ie 
Stem weak, faked eee Leaves meat about its top. 
Leaflets linear, emarginate, with 
callous points be- 
neath.—An elegant fpeci ies, co afpicuou for the crimfon 
margins of the white petals, which give the buds a {pirally 
ftriped appearance 
SeG. 6. With ternate a JSagle- fone Stalks, and a 
leafy Stem. Twelve 
Tube ow ered Gat cont 
O. tubiflora. 
Ait. 0. 4. 
Willd. n. 67. 
leafy, hairy. 
linear-vedge-fhaped, ey | Tube 
longer than its border,—The fem is aban a 
round, hairy, befet with numerous, SS {mall, + 
feffile, hairy, narrow, ternate /eav FF head rfl a 
lary, folitary, many times longer t ne the lea Owers 
crimfon ; their claws united into a cylindric a ag tube, 
confiderably above an inch long, and nearly twice the lengt th 
> ae - Willdenow ee with this Jacquin’s canefcens, 
ofe flower is 0 ramore blueifh purple. In 
both ‘he fue are aeae cee any of the /famens, and we 
— to efteem them male plants; macroffylis of the fame 
uthor, t. 9, in aan ae “files rife above all the /famens, 
baie the female. Thefe two plants are fo exatly the fame, 
that nothing but a determination to affume an arbitrary 
charaéter, and to carry it through in fpite of nature, could 
induce any perfon to feparate them. 0. fecunda, t. 12, is 
Pe Si coed variety. 
n Curt. Mag. under O. rubella, t. 1031. Jacq. 
it. has remarked that hirta, 
Jacq. t.1 
t. 13, 
no 
were writing a a complete hifto 
a a ce fome other fupp 
0. birta, by | its long ftyles, feems a female v 
Se&. 7. With ternate Leaves, many poe ob and 
a St Sixteen Sve 
O. frida. Yellow a Wood sei Linn. Sp. 
Pl. 624. Willd. n. 80. Ait. n J 
Dan 
oc. Vv. 2. — Root creeping. Stem 
8 branched. Leaflets inverfely heart-fhaped. Umbels 
alked, axillary, folitary, many-flowered.—Native of North 
now naturalized as a weed in many Eng'ifh gar- 
widely creeping, peren Stems a toot high, 
more, ere ere€t, flightly panei. leafy, round, red- 
difh, fucculent, {mooth or downy. 
tered, on long flalks. Umbels folitary, on long, axillary, 
folitary ftalks, about equal to the footfalks, but Reighee. 
Flowers numerous, aay devel a about as long as 
the longer /ffamens, hair e of frida well diftin- 
a this from the Pllc: “for ees fome have mif- 
aa 
it. 
0. corniculata. Yellow Procumbent Woed Sorrel. Linn. 
Leaves numerous, fcat- the 
Willd. n. 84. 
Sp. Pl. 623. . 53. Jacq t. § 
Engl. Bot. t. 1726. (O. pull Sahl Tr. of ‘Con 
Soc. v. 2. 243. t. 23. ff. O. lutea; Ger. e 
5s o2 .) 
—Stem branched, creeping, diffofe. "leak inverlely 
heart-fhared. Umbels ftalked, axillary, foltary, of few 
flowers. —Native of various patts of Europe. Found abun- 
authors called it Trifolium corniculatum, ine to the long 
feed-veffels. Both thefe lait are acid, and might fupply the 
place of O. Acetofella, if wanted for medical ufe. 
O. Barrelieri. 'Twin-cluttered Wood Sorrel. Linn. Sp 
Willd. n. 8 (Trifolium acetofum 
americanum, rubro flore ; . 4139.) 
ere&t, ane hed, lea fy. Leaflets ovate, it 
Clutters n pairs, on a ners axillary ema ive of 
the hone parts of So er We: e it not in 
our gardens. Jacquin has it in his ove; 2 and complains of 
the difficulty of faving feeds, as the capfules are fo elaftic. 
The root is fibrous and annu ih Siem twelve or as ee 
on a longer 
hea {mal}, numerous, pale 
red, ina eal divaricated, ftalked, axillary clufters. 
Jule fhort, ova 
Se&. 8. Leaves fingered. Six Species. 
O. haa ae eae leaved _ one ae Fee 
Willd 39. $ nume- 
rous, hee teaceek ae ae oath Stalks folitary, 
-——otem 
fingle-flowere ative e—The eaves {prea 
like a fan ; each leaflet has a black line at the bafe. Flowers 
large, of a golden yellow. This is a very handfom ae 
as well as Jacquin’s flava e 73, which has narrow linea 
gle rade ag t. 74, ‘an d pedinata, t. 75, both which 
e broader oblong /eaffets, and feem to us one {pecies,, 
differing merely ,in the comparative ee cf their 
ftamens and Sigtes, like others already mentio 
If we thus prefume to curtail the pede. we do it with 
e much vefpeet for the able authors who have fo aed 
augmented the number, and we merely with to fuggeft ou 
{cruples, which are altogether theoretical, for the bane 
tion of practical obfervers and cultivators. 
Set. 9. Leaves pinnate. 
This feGion is at prefent known to contain only 
enfitive Pinnate Wood Sc 
illd. n. : 
3" 
| Pee 
teens 
> 
a 
3 
many pair of obtufe Kaffes. 
Flowers yellow, in numerous aie umbels. S. 
AL1s, in Gardening, contains plants of the hardy, her- 
baceous, perennial kind, of which the fpecies eae are 5 
the upright 
t wood forrel 
But there are many other ein a may be cultivated. 
Method of Culture.—The firt fort may be readily in- 
creafed, by planting the divided roots in a moift fhad 
y bor- 
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