HYPERICACEAE 867 
petals. Androecium of few or many stamens, dd in grouped, the 
groups sometimes alternating with the glands. Gynoec of 3~7 united 
earpels. Fruit a capsule —Ten genera and more than 300 species, mostly 
in temperate and tropieal regions 
Sepals 4, in more or less unequal pairs: petals mostly 4. 
Pairs of sepals very unequal in size or shape or both, the ar pair enclosing 
the capsule. . ASCYRUM. 
ue of sepals nearly equal in size and shape, much sur- 
sed by the capsule. 2. CROOKEA. 
Sepald dud petals mostly 5. 
etals yellow. 
Plants without basal branches, or with elongate ones 
with opposite leaves: pens deciduous: capsule 
Sor dehiscent to the bas 
Leaves with flat, more or on spreading blades. 3. HYPERICUM. 
Leaves reduced to erect or uos URS or 
slightly elongate scales, without bla 4. SAROTHRA. 
Plants with" clusters of short oe with o 
decussate, bladeless leaves the base, and 
remotely scaly flowering Um which y A "n 
slender-branched cymes: petals marcescent: capsule 
dehiscent to the base 5. SANIDOPHYLLUM. 
Petals pink, sometimes tinged with green or purple. 6. TRIADENUM. 
1. ASCYRUM L. Shrubs. Sepals 4, very unequal. Corolla yellow, 
Stamens not in groups. Styles hig cin short. Capsule included in the 
calyx.—Seven species, American.—ST. PETER'S-wORTS. ST. ANDREW’S-CROSSES. 
Styles 2: inner sepals very small, petal-like or obsolet 
Peduncles reflexed at maturi ity : calyx without bacc conspicuously surpassing 
the leaves. 1. A. pumilum. 
Peduncles not recurved: calyx e a pair of ` 
bractlets, not conspicuously surpassing the leaves. 
Outer sepals ovate at maturity: capsule included. 2. A. hypericoides. 
rs sepals elliptie at maturity: capsule exserted at 
ip. . A. linifolium. 
SMS 3-1. : "ia er sepals EY smaller pons the outer. 
ter sepals obtuse or rounded at the a 
Le af-bla ^d predominately cuneate A "obovate cuneate, 
: outer sepals suborbicular 4, A. cuneifolium. 
Lent blades S duin. of an elliptic or oval type, 
somewhat clasping: outer sepals broadly ovate-or- 
bicular 
Outer Sepals acute or acuminate at the apex. 
Leaf-blades predominately of an ova type: outer 
sepals quite different from the lea 
ert ides DOO of an “elliptic or linear- 
e type: outer sepals resembling the leaves. 7. A. tetrapetalum., 
D. A. stans. 
. A. Edisonianum. 
ilum Miehx. Shr ub, depressed, the short stems often matted: 
ar blades oval, ee pn linear- Row in ks 9 mm. long: outer sepals ovate 
to suborbicular, 6—10 lon 
obsolete or nearly S0: petals yellow, obovate: 
capsule about 5 long.—Pinelands, 
Coastal Plain, "Fla. aa Ga. to Miss. d 
sum 
A. hypericoides L. Shrub, e pun 
blades dd often narrowly so, 5—15 m 
long: outer sepals cuneate- obovate to elliptic 
or apti. Jacobs te, 7-9 long, 
inner E ne petals Ean RNC 
7—8 long.—(ST. ANDREW'S-CROSS. 
Dry ert thickets, and inno ie various 
provinees, Fla. to Tex., Nebr., and Mas 
OF. I. )—Spr. ^ fan or all year. 
