560 DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Oxalis. 
(E. Bot. 695. E.)— FI. Dan . 113— Clus. ii. 60. 2—Dod. 129. 1— Ger. Em. 
512. 1— H. Ox. xii. 6. 6— Pet. 42. 5—Clus. ii. 60. I —Ger. Em. 513. 6— 
II. Ox. xii. 6. 7— Pet. 42. 6—Fuchs. 33 —J. B. iii. 692. 3—Ger. 412. 1. 
Stems six to twelve inches high. Branches often reflexed. Leaves green, 
frequently tinged with red, not crowded, lower ones bowed back, quickly 
falling off. Calyx segments six or seven. Petals from five to seven. 
Stamens ten or twelve. Pistils and nectaries six. Flowres bright yellow, 
(numerous. E.) 
(Var. 2. S. rejlexum /3. FI. Brit. S. glaucum. Donn. E. Bot. 2477. Differs 
in being of a more glaucous hue, with much more slender leaves, espe¬ 
cially on the radical shoots. Branches of the cyme more uniformly 
spreading ; segments of the calyx narrower and more pointed. Sm. Eng. 
FI. E.) 
Yellow Stonecrop or Sengreen. (Welsh: Bywydog Llwyndu r fagwyr. 
E.) Walls, roofs, and rocks, frequent. P. July. 
S. rupes'tre. (Leaves awl-shaped, spurred at the base, in five rows, 
crowded: flowers in tufts: segments of the calyx elliptical, 
obtuse. E.) 
E. Bot. 170— Dill. Elth. 256. 333—Pet. 42. 8. 
{ Stems often reddish, six to ten inches high. E.) Leaves sea-green, more 
thickly awl-shaped than in S. rejlexum . Linn. Stems before flowering 
closely tiled. Leaves scattered. Flowers in a close, thick, branched tuft. 
Blossom yellow. Woodw. The disposition of the leaves in five rows may 
be best observed by viewing the plant with the ends of the branches 
opposite to the eye. Their points are not bent back as in those of S. re¬ 
jlexum. The Jlowers have frequently six or seven respective parts. 
Rock Stonecrop. On Cheddar and St. Vincent’s Rocks. (Titterstone Clee 
Hill, Shropshire. Dr. Evans. On the Breiddin Hills, Montgomeryshire. 
Aikin. Walls about Darlington. Mr. Robson. Bot. Guide. Rocks near 
Babicombe, Devon. Rev. J. P. Jones. Rocks and walls about the Peak 
of Derbyshire. Wick Cliffs, Gloucestershire. E.) P. July.* * 
(S. Forsteria'num. Leaves spurred at the base, those of the branches 
semi-cylindrical, bluntish, pointed, spreading, in many rows: 
flowers cymose: segments of the calyx elliptical, obtuse. 
E. Bot. 1802. 
Very distinct from S. rupestre in the bright green colour of its foliage; but 
the short rosaceous tufts of spreading leaves, which are blunt, with a 
small bristly point, more essentially distinguish it. Flowers in a true 
cyme , all the primary stalks springing from one point. 
Welsh Rock Stonecrop. At the fall of the Rhydol, near the Devil’s 
bridge, Cardiganshire. Mr. E. Forster. On the rocks of Hisvae, over¬ 
hanging the valley of Nant-phrancon. Dr. Richardson and Mr. Llwyd. 
P. July. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
OX'ALIS.f Calyx five leaves : Petals connected at the base : 
Capsules five-sided, opening at the angles. 
* Both this and S. rejlexum are cultivated in Holland and Germany to mix with lettuces 
in salads. It is acrid to the taste. 
*f (From ot-vg, sharp : 6^o.K)g t so called from the acidity'of its leaves. Dioscor. Plin. E. ) 
