. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. OXALIS OXYDENDEUM 1183 237(as O. caprina). A double-fld. form naturalized about the Mediterranean is also commonly cult. 19:1964. —Both the single and double forms are fre- quently but wrongly listed as O. lutea and O. flava, and sometimes as O. caprina, and the popular name of Bermuda Buttercup is be
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. OXALIS OXYDENDEUM 1183 237(as O. caprina). A double-fld. form naturalized about the Mediterranean is also commonly cult. 19:1964. —Both the single and double forms are fre- quently but wrongly listed as O. lutea and O. flava, and sometimes as O. caprina, and the popular name of Bermuda Buttercup is becoming attached to them. 1603, Oxalis cernua. 15. variabilis, Jacq. (O. va-ridbilis, var. albifldra, Lindl. O. grandifldra, Jacq. O. Idxtila, Jacq. O. pur- purea, var. Idxula, ^oYt. O. 7ngidiila, Jacq. ld,ta,). Lvs. large, rather fleshy, sometimes pur- plish, petioled: fls. large, white or slightly variegated with rose color, yellowish at base. Cape. 1683. Var. rCibra, Jacq. (0. purpurea, Jacq. O. specidsa, Jacq. O. 'veniiKta, Lowe). Fls. rosy to deep rose-pur- ple. Cape. 18:1505. 1712. 16. hirta, Linn. (O. rosdcea, Jacq. O. mulUflbra, Jacq. O. riibSlla, Jacq. O. hirt^lla, Jacq. O. fillgida, Lindl.). Lvs. nearly sessile; Ifts. spatulate: fls. from lavender or pale rosy (var. rosea) to deep rose color. Cape. 13:1073. 1031. 3:213. 17. versicolor (O. elongctta, Jacq.). Glandular: lvs. and peduncles clustered at end of simple stems; petioles mostly elongated; Ifts. liuear-wedge-shaped: fls. white, yellowish below, the petals bordered with red, opening only in full sunshine. Cape. 155. 8:834. Wm. Trelease. 0X£BA (meaning dubious). VerbencicecB. It needs but a glance at any of the colored portraits of Oxera coccinea to show that it is one of the most interesting climbers cultivated in our hothouses. It has ivory- white, trumpet-shaped, sweet-scented fls. 2 in. long and 1 in. across, borne profusely in clusters of a dozen o
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