HYPERICACEAE 
Capsule i-celled or incompletely 3-celled. 
Capsule with parietal placentae, 1-celled. 
Tl s 
plac 
Capsule Commpictéls 3-cell 
ed. 
erbs, perennial, cn stoloniferous: stem simple or 
h 
sparingly brane 
Shrubs with tap roots: stem much-branched. 
Styles 5: capsule 5-celled. 
I. CANADENSIA 
Leaf-blades linear. 
Leaf-blades ovate, oval, or oblong. 
epals obtuse or Som hat acute: 
Sepals acuminate: leaf-blades acute. 
leaf-blades obtuse. 
II. VIRGATA 
Styles distinct: stigmas capitate. 
Foliage glabrous: sepals not cilia 
epals conspicuously imbricate, ‘at least the outer 
ae adest at the base: leaf-blades broadest about 
the middle. 
Sepals not conspicuously imbricated, at least the 
outer broadest about the middle: leaf-blades 
2 oadest about the base 
Foli : sepals ciliate. 
Styles a eden at least below : stigmas ute. 
cd 1 road or more pee over 6 mm. 
1 
Corolla I ES 18 mm. broad; capsules less than 
Capsules rondes at the top, about as long as the 
sepa 
Capsdles broadest at the base 
Sepals obtuse: seeds striate n pitted. 
Sepals acute or acutish: transversely 
wrinkled. 
III. AMBIGUA 
Sepals very small or at least not foliaceous. 
. Leaves never in conspicuous axillary clusters ; blades 
relatively broad. 
Sepals obtuse or merely acutish. 
a3 long as the petals : 
E y b 2 a cap- 
Sepals over Ty a done as the petals: eapsules 
Sepals a Ace or acuminate. 
Leaves in conspicuous axillary ARAS blades nar- 
row. 
Leaves of the axillary clusters mostly uch 
smaller than the ene pair; blades neither 
ar nor flesh 
in terminal eeen corymbs: buds 
‘broadly one mountain species. 
Cymes in elongated narrow panicles: buds 
conie : o land species 
Leaves linear-oblong, spatulate or oblanceo- 
E e. 
ves narrowly linear or narrowly linear- 
ula 
spa 
Leaves of s axillary clusters about as large as 
the or slightly shorter; blades 
ace a nea subulate, fleshy, about as 
the petals or fully 15 as 
ng: leaves mostly over 10 mm. long. 
Senne less than % as long as the petals: 
leaves mostly less than 10 mm. long. 
dis foliaceous. 
Leaf-blades eordate-claspin 
Leaf-blades more or less owed to the sessile or 
short petioled base 
Flowers sessile: ade ovoid-globose. 
Flowers pedicelled : buds conic. 
II. VIRGATA. 
mpletely 3-celled by the intrusion of the 
III. AMBIGUA. 
IV. MACULATA. 
ROLIFICA. 
VI. LOBOCARPA. 
PY 
. H. canadense. 
mutilum. 
2, H. 
3. gymnanthum. 
H. 
. denticulatum. 
5. H. acutifolium. 
etosum. 
. dolabriforme, 
turgidum. 
opacum. 
cistifolium. 
11. H. nudiflorum. 
. apocynifolium. 
H. adpressum. 
. H. glomeratum. 
15. H. 
16. H. 
ambiguum. 
galioides. 
H. fasciculatum. 
co 
x 
aspalathoides. 
myrtifolium. 
aureum. 
H. splendens. 
