. 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. I. Xanthoxalis stricta (L. I Small. Upright Yellow Wood-sorrel. Fig. 2665. Oxalis stricta L. Sp. PI. 435. 1753- Oxalis corniculata var. stricta Sav. in Lam. Encycl. 4: 683. 1797. Xanthoxalis stricta Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 667. 1903- Plants usually low and erect, pale green. Stem commonly branched at the base, the branches spread- ing, 5'-6' long, more or less strigose;
. 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. I. Xanthoxalis stricta (L. I Small. Upright Yellow Wood-sorrel. Fig. 2665. Oxalis stricta L. Sp. PI. 435. 1753- Oxalis corniculata var. stricta Sav. in Lam. Encycl. 4: 683. 1797. Xanthoxalis stricta Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 667. 1903- Plants usually low and erect, pale green. Stem commonly branched at the base, the branches spread- ing, 5'-6' long, more or less strigose; leaves p'-ii' broad; leaflets coarsely cellular, very sensitive, clos- ing when touched; petiole-bases narrowly dilated; flowers yellow, fragrant, in umbel-like cymes, pe- duncles ii'-6' long, stout; pedicels at length de- flexed; sepals linear or lanceolate, about 23" long, ciliolate, erect or ascending; petals 4"-5" long, com- monly reddish at the base; Capsule columnar, 8"-i5" long, abruptly narrowed at the summit. In woods and fields. Xova Scotia to Wyoming. Colo- rado, south to Florida and Texas. Introduced into Eu- rope as a weed. Sheep- or poison-sheep-sorrel. Toad- sorrel. Ladies'-sorrel or -sour-grass. April-Oct. ;. Xanthoxalis corniculata (L.) Small. Yel- low Procumbent Wood-sorrel. Fig. 2666. Oxalis coriiiciilala L. Sp. PI. 435. 1753. ?0. repcu Thunb. Oxal. 16. 1781. Xanthoxalis corniculata Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 667. 1903. Plants depressed, green, sparingly pubescent or nearly glabrous, freely branching from the base and with a few branches above. Stem i'-6' high, the branches loosely pubescent, diffuse, mainly procum- bent and often rooting from the nodes; leaflets ob- cordate, wider than long, about i' wide; petioles slender, dilated at the base into oblong rounded or truncate stipules: peduncles 1-3-fiowered; flowers yellow, 2"-6" long; pedicels strigillose, more or less reflexed; capsule oblong, gradually narrowed to the apex, s&
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