Spring Flora of Oklahoma 
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ters, pale pink or whitish. Sepals ovate, ciliate, awn-pointed, ovary- 
lobes hispid-pubescent. Beak nearly 1' long, short-pointed. 
In waste places. April-June. Common. 
2. Geranium Bicknellii Britton. Bicknell’s Crane’s-bill. Sim¬ 
ilar to preceding species, but taller. Leaves slender-petioled, some¬ 
what angulate in outline, the segments oblong or linear-oblong, mostly 
narrower. Peduncles 2-flowered. Flowers in loose clusters. Sepals 
lanceolate, awn-pointed. Ovary lobes pubescent. Beak about V long, 
long-pointed, its tip 2"-3" long.. 
Waste places. M'ay-September. Oklahoma County. 
FAMILY 41. OXALIDACEiE. Wood-Sorrell Family. 
Low perennials from small, bulblike, or elongated root¬ 
stocks, stemless or with stems. Leaves alternate or all 
basal, palmately 3-several-foliolate, the leaflets mostly ob- 
cordate. Flowers in scapose cymes or in few-flowered ax 
illary clusters. Calyx of 5 sepals. Petals rose or yellow. 
Stamens 10, the filaments united at the base. Pistil of 5 
united carpels. Fruit a capsule, the seeds transversely 
wrinkled. 
Plants acaulescent, with bulb-like or scaly rootstocks; 
corolla white, pink, or rose-purple. I. Ionoxalis. 
Plants caulescent; corolla yellow. II. Xanthoxalis. 
I. IONOXALIS Small. 
Perennial, acaulescent herbs, with leaves and scapes ris¬ 
ing from scaly bulbs. Petioles elongated. Leaf blades 
palmately 3-several-foliolate, the leaflets narrowly to broad¬ 
ly obcordate, with cuneate bases. Flowers in bracted, cy- 
mose clusters at the end of long, slender, weak, scapelike 
peduncles. Sepals 5, with tubercles at the apex. Stamens 
10. Filaments usually pubescent, united at the base. Cap¬ 
sule elongated, 5-celled. 
1. Ionxalis violacea (L.) Small. Violet Wood-sorrel. Peren¬ 
nial from a brownish bulb with ciliate scales, acaulescent, 4'-9' high. 
Leaflets obcordate, the midrib sometimes sparingly hairy. Flowers 
