Tap. 6563. 
HYPERICUM Coris. 
Native of Mid. and 8. Europe. 
Nat. Ord. Hypericinem.—Tribe HypErice®. 
Genus Hypericum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 165.) 
Hypericum (Coridia) Coris ; glabrum, ramis e caule suffrutescente humili numero- 
sissimis gracilibus simpliciusculis erectis v. ascendentibus teretibus, foliis 
sub-verticillatim fasciculatis linearibus obtusis marginibus revolutis, panicula 
terminali verticillatim ramosa, ramis apices versus floriferis, sepalis lineari- 
oblongis obtusis fructu erectis, marginibus glandulosis non imbricatis, petalis 
oblique ovato-oblongis obtusis eglandulosis, staminibus triadelphis, stylis 3, 
capsula septicida trivalvi. 
H. Coris, Linn. Sp. Pl. n. 1107; DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 553, ewcl. citat. et Synon. ; 
Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vol. vi. t. 351. 
In a very early volume of the Borantcat Macaztyn, 
published in 1792 (and in other works), a plant is figured 
(Tab. 178) under the name of Hypericum Coris, which has 
been rightly distinguished by Willdenow and all subsequent 
authorities as a different species from the Linnzan plant of 
that name, and called H. empetrifoliwm. This and the 
fact. that the two plants are frequently confounded in 
gardens, both being now commonly cultivated, renders it 
very necessary that a good figure of the true H. Coris 
should appear in this Magazine, to a place in which work 
its beauty fully entitles it. Lee 
The differences between these plants consists in H. em- 
petrifolium being a more shrubby, though not a bigger 
plant, with very short sepals which are spreading in fruit, 
and in having broader and less oblique petals. They have 
further, a very different geographical distribution, 17. Coris 
being dispersed from the South of France to the Tyrol and 
occurring in many parts of Italy, whereas H. empetrifolium 
is confined to the Grecian Archipelago and neighbouring 
shores of Greece and Asia Minor. With regard to the fact 
that the Crimea is assigned to H. empetrifolium im this 
JUNE lst, 1881. 
