Excerpt from Familiar Wild Flowers: Figured and Described Wood sorrel, oxalis acetosella. Nat. Ord., oxalidacecc. - Calyx of five short ovate sepals, membranous, ciliate, tinged with purple, persistent. Petals five, retuse, ovate-cuneiform, striate with purple veins; claws small, yellowish. Flowers solitary, fragile look ing, drooping. Stamens ten, five shorter than the others. Ovary superior, roundish, bearing five erect and filiform styles. Fruit cap sular, membranous, five-celled, five-valved. Leaves radical, on long, slender, naked petioles; each composed of three equal, entire, obcor date leaflets, purplish beneath; hairy, spreading, dro'oping at night. Flower-stems with two ovate, scaly bracts. Root - stock creeping, jointed, scaly - Woods and shady hedgerows. May. Annual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.