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VIII. Some Remarks on the Synonyms ‚dnd native Country of 
Hypericum calycinum. By J. E. Smith, M.D., F.R.S., and 
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Read March 21, 1809. 
Towaznps the end of last August I received from Mr. Hincks, 
Secretary to the Cork Institution, a specimen of Hypericum caly- 
cinum, gathered, by Mr. Drummond, Curator of the botanic 
garden near that city, about three miles from Cork in the road 
to Bandon, where these gentlemen assure me the plant in ques- 
tion grows wild in great abundance. This communication led 
me to investigate the reputed places of growth of this species, 
as well as of the Hypericum Ascyron, with which Linneus and 
some other botanists have confounded it. ‘This confusion was 
first publicly corrected in the Hortus Kewensis, v. 3. 103, where 
the synonyms of the calycinum are rightly given. Two years af- 
terwards Mr. Curtis published this plant in his Magazine, v. 5. 
t. 146, judiciously adopting the corrections in the Hortus Kew- 
ensis, but relapsing into an old error in quoting Bauhin’s Ascy- 
rum magno flore. The occurrence of this quotation chiefly excited . 
in my mind a desire to investigate the whole subject; for I must 
honestly confess that, as Bauhin's plant was gathered by Burser 
on the Pyrenean mountains, I should have been glad to have 
found it the same with our Irish one, as confirming the wildness 
of the latter. My first object therefore was to determine the plant 
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