18. OXALID ACE.32 . 
99 
2. Radiola Gm. 
Flax-seed. 
1. R. MILLEGRAXA Sm. 
Hort. Kew. (ed. 2) i. 282 ; EB. t. 893 ; Sm. E. El. i. 243 ; Spr. 
i. 498. R. linoicles (Gm.) DC. i. 428 ; Koch 141. R. vulgaris ser- 
pijlli folia Dill, in Ray’s Syn. 345. 1. 15. f. 3. Linum Radiola Linn., 
Brot. i. 485. — Mad. r eg. 2; cc. Mountain pastures general; rocky 
ridge between the Quinta do Valle and Rib. de Joao Gomez ; 
grassy hills up the Caminho do Meio and about Camacha, &o. 
April-June. — A minute inconspicuous delicate little pi. <3f short 
duration, 1 or 2 in. high, erect and smooth, bushy and regularly 
forked or branched dichotomously from the base, branches 
filiform or capillary stiff corymbose. L. opposite entire very 
small sessile ovate. El. white very minute and numerous 
stalked solitary from the forks of the st. and at the ends of the 
branches. Sep. sharply and deeply trifid. 
Order XVIII. OXALIDACE2E. 
The Wood-sorrel Family. 
FI. regular. Sep. 5 equal persistent imbricate in bud. Ret. 
5 equal clawed often cohering at the base twisted in bud. 
Stain. 10 monadelphous in 2 rows, the 5 inner opposite the 
pet. longer than the 5 outer. Ov. 5-celled ; ovules 1 or more 
m each cell ; styles 5, stigmas capitate. Caps. 5-lobed 5-celled 
5-10-valved or fleshy. Seeds not numerous 1 or more in each 
cell often with an elastic fleshy epiderm (arillus Endl.). Em- 
bryo straight in a fleshy albumen. — PI. with acid juices, often 
stemless. L. mostly trifoliate. 
1. Oxaljs. Fr. an oblong or cylindric 5-angular 5-celled 
5-valved caps. 
1. Oxalis L. 
* Branched ; ped. axillary ; lfts. temate. 
1. O. corniculata L. Bolsa de Pastor. 
Pubescent ; root fibrous without turions or tubers ; st. diffuse 
with procumbent often rooting branches ; lfts. obcordate ; stip. 
oblong-lanceolate adnate to the petioles ; ped. 2-5-fld. shorter 
than the leaves ; pedic. in fr. refiexed ; caps, narrow-oblong ; 
seeds transversely ribbed. — Brot. ii. 223; EB. 1726; Buch 196. 
no. 339 ; DC. i. 692 ; Sm. E. FI. ii. 324 ; Presl 212 ; Spr. ii. 429 ■ 
WB. i. 25; Koch 157; Bab. 68. O. pusilla Salisb. in Linn. 
Trans, ii. 243. t. 23. f. 5. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3 ; ecc. 
Roadsides, waste and cultiv. ground everywhere; one of the 
