WOOD SORREL FAMILY 
( Oxalidacece) 
(A) White Wood Sorrel (Oxalis Acetosella) is one 
ot the most delicate and dainty of our woodland flowers. 
It is commonly found in cool, damp situations and is 
very partial to mountainous regions. The flowers are 
very frail looking, about an inch broad, borne on long 
slender peduncles from the root. The leaves are alsS 
on long, slender petioles from the root; they are tri¬ 
foliate or clover-like, each of the three leaflets beiim 
inversely heart-shaped,—that is, with the end notched 
and with two rounded lobes. White Wood Sorrel is 
found from N. S. to Saskatchewan and south to N. E 
-IN. Y. and m mountains to N. C. 
(B) Violet Wood Sorrel (Oxalis violacea ). The 
long slender flower stalks bear at their summits three 
or more pale magenta flowers, similar, except in color, 
but a trifle smaller than those of the white species. 
lhe leaves of both these sorrels are very sensitive 
and fold up, if handled; they also close at dusk and 
open in the morning. 
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