Order IV. 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
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6148 Petals 8, Leaves scattered : the lower rounded ; upper depressed 
6449 Leaves scattered rounded obtuse. Stem simple, Fl. in umbels with 4 petals 
6450 Leaves linear rounded depressed scattered, Cyme open. Petals 4 
6451 Leaves oblong obtuse roundish sessile spreading, Cyme branched 
6452 Leaves subovate adnate-sessile gibbous nearly erect alternate, Cyme trifid 
6453 Leaves subovate adnate-sessile gibbous nearly erect imbricated six ways 
6454 Leaves subovate adnate-sessile gibbous alternate. Cyme branched bifid 
6455 Stem erect solitary annual. Leaves ovate sessile gibbous alternate, Cyme recurved 
6456 Leaves oblong flattish above and peduncles axillary about 1-fl. pubescent, Petals ovate obtuse 
6457 Leaves whorled linear. Stem procumbent panicled, Peduncles villous viscid 
6458 Stem erect, Flowers corymbose fastigiate 
6459 Leaves scattered oblong-cylindrical obtuse, Stems shrubby much branched. Cymes terminal 
6460 The only species 
6461 Peduncles simple 1-fl. Leaves tripartite multifid linear downy 
6462 Peduncles many-fl. at end 
^ 1. Peduncles many-flowered. Stems suffruticose. Cells of ovary usually 1 seeded. 
6463 Stem erect leafy. Umbel 4-fl. the length of leaves, Leaflets entire ovate obtuse 
§ 2. Caulescent, Leaves palmate S-foliate, Leaflets all sessile, obcordate. 
6464 Pedunc. 2-3-fl. somewhat longer thanleaf-st. Lvs. 2-lobed obcord. ciliated. Styles a little longer than inner 
6465 Stem hairy, Umb. 5-6-fl. longer than leaves, Lvs. obcordate. Styles longer than both stamens [stamens 
/3 Stem decumbent, Peduncles 2 or 3-flowered 
6466 Stem erect. Umbels 2-6-fl. about as long as leaves, Leafl. obcord. Styles the length of inner stamens 
6467 Stem rooting, Peduncles shorter than leafst. Leafl. obcordate. Styles the length of inner stamens 
6468 Smoothish, Pedunc. 2-fl. longer than leafst. Leafl. 2-lobed, Styles the length of inner stamens 
Stem rooting, Pedunc. 2-fl. the length of leafst. Leaflets obcordate. Styles middling 
Stem erect, Pedunc. axill. four times as long as leaf at the end corymbose racemose, Leafl. obcordate 
Stem naked at base, Pedunc. lateral umbell. at end, Leafl. cun. emarg. Styles shorter than outer stamens 
\ 3. Caulescent, Leaves sessile, 3-leaved, villous, not glandular, Pedunc. axillary, l-flmuered. 
Stem branch. Ped. much long, than lvs. Bractes next cal. Leafl. lin. emarg. Styles long, than inner stam. 
Ped. 4 times as long as lvs. Bractes appressed to cal. Leafl. lin. cun. obt. Styles shorter than outer stamens 
Stem declined, Branches 1-sided, Leafl. lin. -cuneiform. Peduncles scarcely longer than leaves 
Leafl. lin. cun. ret. Ped. much long, than lvs. Bractes remote from cal. Stam. with neither teeth nor glands 
Stem much branched, Leafl. lin. cuneate obt. Pedunc. much shorter than lvs. Bractes remote from cal 
Leafl. lin. cuneate, Pedunc. much longer than leaves, Bractes remote from cal. Styles intermediate 
Leafl. obi. cuneiform, Pedunc. much longer than leaves, Bractes remote from cal. Styles intermediate 
^ 4. Caulescent, sparingly leafy. Leaves stalked, 5-5-leaved, Pedunc. axill. l-flowered. 
Stem short. Leaves on long stalks, Leafl. 3 ovate-rounded. Styles very short 
Stem branched. Leaves stalked in fascicled whorls with 3 obcordate leaflets. Styles very long 
^ 5. Stemless, Pedunc. 1-2 or many-flowered. Leaves radical, many-leaved, usually S-leaved. 
Leafl. 3 obcordate silky. Umbel longer than leaves, Fl. nodding. Styles intermediate 
Leafl. 3 obcordate smooth, Umb. 3-9. fl. Styles very short, Fl. nodding 
Leafl. 3 obcordate 2-lobed smooth, Umb. 2-4-fl. Flowers erect. Styles very short 
Leafl. 3 obcordate 2-lobed smooth subciliated, Umb. many-fl. Fl. drooping. Styles very short 
Petiole flattish, Leafl. 3 obcordate pubescent, Umb. 2-fl. Sepals entire. Styles very long 
Leafl. 3 obcordate smooth subciliate, Umb. 2-5-fl. Sepals 3-toothed at end. Styles very long 
Leafl. 3 obcordate 2-parted beneath violet. Umbel 2-fl. Styles middling 
Smooth, Pedunc. 1-fl. longer than leaf. Leaflets obcordate. Root tuberous 
6483 ,^ 6477 ^ 6488 
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6471 
6472 
6473 
6474 
6475 
6476 
6477 
6478 
6479 
6481 
6482 
6483 
6484 
6485 
6486 
6465 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
account of its irritable pinnated foUage, and its stamens being distinct, and five of them only being perfect. It 
IS a very pretty annual, and if well managed so as to acquire, as in China, a stem six or nine inches high, is 
abundance™^ o'^jec*- Cultivated in common earth, and propagated by seeds, which it produces in 
1065 Oxalis. The Oxalis of the ancients, which was named from olv?, sharp, or sour, was a very different 
plant from this, which is thought to have been the Oxys of Pliny. The name employed by Linneeus has, 
however, been adopted by his followers, although Clusius, Ray, Plumier, Tournefort, Haller, and others, 
called the genus Oxys. ' ' ' 
This is a tribe of pretty little plants, of which most of the species flower freely, but all of them are without 
ineir [eaves half the year. The root is commonly bulbous ; in some species only thick and fleshy ; in a few 
oranched : the bulbs consist of fleshy scales, sometimes closely imbricate, sometimes loose and diverging. In 
a tew the subterraneous stipe and the terminating fibre of the bulb produce little dog-toothed bulbs, in such 
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