. 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. Botany. Genus i. WOOD-SORREL FAMILY, I. Oxalis Acetosella L. White or True Wood-sorrel. Alleluia. Fig. 2663. Oxalis Acelosclla L. Sp. PI. 433. 1753. Perennial by a scaly nearly unbranched root- stock, acaulescent, 2'-6' high, pubescent with scattered brownish hairs. Leaves 3-6, long-petioled; petioles jointed and dilated at the base; leaflets obcordate, wider than long; scape
. 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. Botany. Genus i. WOOD-SORREL FAMILY, I. Oxalis Acetosella L. White or True Wood-sorrel. Alleluia. Fig. 2663. Oxalis Acelosclla L. Sp. PI. 433. 1753. Perennial by a scaly nearly unbranched root- stock, acaulescent, 2'-6' high, pubescent with scattered brownish hairs. Leaves 3-6, long-petioled; petioles jointed and dilated at the base; leaflets obcordate, wider than long; scapes 1-3. slightly longer than the leaves, I-flowered, 2-bracted above the middle; flowers broadly carnpanulate, about *' long; sepals obtusish; petals white or pink, veined with deep pink, emarginate or entire, 3-4 times as long as the ; capsule subglobose, i"-2" long, glabrous, its cavities 1-2-seeded; seeds ovoid, longitudinally grooved. In cold damp woods. Nova Scotia to Saskatchewan, the mountains of North Carolina, and the north shore of Lake Superior. Cleistogene flowers are borne on recurved scapes at the base of the plant. Native also in Europe, .'\sia and -northern Africa. Sleeping beauty. Ladies'- or sleeping 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:
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