OX'ALIS CAPRI'NA. 
goat’s-foot wood-sorrel. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. PENTAOYNIA . 
Natural Order. 
OXALIDACE li. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
C. G. Hope 
18 inches 
Mar. &. Tone 
Perennial. 
in 1757. 
No. 819. 
Oxalis, see No. 433. Caprina, from Capra, the 
Goat; the shape of its leaves resembles a goat’s 
foot. Each leaf of this genus is generally divided 
into three parts, and exhibits the phenomenon 
usually called the sleep of plants. Some remarks 
on these subjects will be found under No. 735. 
Oxalis caprina we introduce as the first of our 
Window Plants, and consider it a pleasing subject 
for the purpose. In some parts of the country it 
is wholly unknown, whilst in others it will be met 
with in cottage windows, and sometimes in greater 
beauty than under the frame or greenhouse man- 
agement of a good gardener. 
It produces an exceedingly handsome show of 
flowers. Three or four bulbs, in a pot, throw up an 
abundance of flowering stems, for at the least two 
months, each scape bearing from a dozen to twenty 
flowers; and, as these open in succession, and con- 
tinue some time in perfection, a mass of gaiety is 
the consequence. When the sun’s cheerful rays of 
April and May fall on this plant, it excites 
pleasure, from an almost irresistable feeling that 
it is enjoying the genial warmth. Its flowers that 
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