. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Cuckoo-flower. Old names, mrock, hearts, sour-trifoly. vood-sower or wood-sour, cuckoo's meat, sour trefoil, elds the druggists' " Salt of ; May-July. 2. lONOXALIS Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 665. 1903. Perennial acaulescent herbs, with scaly bulbs. Leaves basal, few or many together, with the petioles dilated'at the base, palmately 3-10-foliolate; leaflets notched
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Cuckoo-flower. Old names, mrock, hearts, sour-trifoly. vood-sower or wood-sour, cuckoo's meat, sour trefoil, elds the druggists' " Salt of ; May-July. 2. lONOXALIS Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 665. 1903. Perennial acaulescent herbs, with scaly bulbs. Leaves basal, few or many together, with the petioles dilated'at the base, palmately 3-10-foliolate; leaflets notched at the , with short or elongated lobes, iisually with orange tubercles in each sinus, commonly droop- ing. Scapes erect, solitary or clustered; usually topped by umbel-like cymes. Flowers per- fect, heterogonous. Sepals 5, with tubercles at the apex. Petals 5. rose-purple, rose-violet or white, much longer than the sepals, commonly rounded at the apex. Stamens 10: filaments usually pubescent, united at the base. Capsule sometimes elongated, s-celled. Seeds wrinkled, grooved or tubcrcled. [Greek, purple-oxalis.] .•Vbout 120 species, natives of North and South Amer- ica, most abundant in continental tropical America. Type species: lonoxalis violacea (L.) Small. I. lonoxalis violacea (L.) Small. Violet Wood-sorrel. Fig. 2664. Oxalis violacea L. Sp. PI. 434. 1753. lonoxalis I'iolacea Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 665. 1903. Perennial from a brownish bulb with ciliate scales, acaulescent, 4-9' high, nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves generally 4--8, long and slender-petioled, about i' wide; leaflets obcordate, 'minutely reticu- lated, the midrib sometimes sparingly hairy; scapes several, commonly exceeding the leaves, umbellately 3-12-flowered; pedicels slender; flowers 8"-io" long, heterogonous;, sepals obtuse; petals rose-purple, rarely white, lighter toward the base, obtuse or trun- cate, 3 times as long as the sepals; capsule ovoid, 2" in diameter; cavities 2-3-seede
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