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HyrerRiIcuM BALEARICUM.. WarRTY 
St. Joun’s-Wort. 
Se a 
Cla/s and Order. 
PoLyADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
* a 
: Generic Charaé&er. 
Calyx 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Neffariumo. Capfula. 
~ Specific Character and Synonyms. 
HYPERICUM Jalearicum floribus pentagynis, caule fruticofe 
foliis ramifque cicatrizatis. Linn. Sy/t. Veget- 
3 : p. 102. 
MYRTO-CISTUS pennzi Clu. Hift. 1. p. 68. 
Is according to Linnaus a native of Majorca; MiLuER 
fays that it grows naturally in the [land of Minorca, from 
whence the feeds were fent to England by Mr. SaLvADOR, 
an Apothecary at Barcelona, in the year +718. 
The ftalks of this fpecies are ufually of a bright red colour, 
and covered with little warts ; the leaves are {mall with many 
depreffions on their upper fides like fears; the flowers are not 
always folitary, but frequently form a kind of Corymbus. 
_ Itis a hardy green-houfe plant, and readily propagated by 
cuttings. | 
“It flowers during moft of the Summer. 
_Crusius informs us in his Hf. pl. rar. p. 68. that he 
received from Tuomas Penny, a Phyfician of London, if 
the year 1580, a figure of this elegant plant, and who the 
_hext year fhewed a dried f{pecimen of the fame in London, 
which had been gathered in the Ifland of Majorca, and 
named by him pupro-xisov, or Myrtle-Ciftus *; it appears there- 
fore that this plant has long been known, if not cultivated 19 
this country. . | 
_ We may remark that Crusius’s figure of this plant is 70% 
equally expreflive with many of his others. 
-_ * The leaves being fomewhat like thofe of the Myrtle, and a gummy 
fubftance exuding from the plant as in the Gum Ciftus. er 
