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la capsule évidemment pluriloculaire avec insertion aile 
(Rich.) et le fruit uniloculaire accompagné de l'insertion su- 
turale, caractéres communs au Sarothra et à l Hypericum 
elodes. Cependant la Sarothra différera toujours essentielle- 
ment des Hypericum par ses étamines en nombre déterminé, 
par son style et son stigmate unique, et enfin parcequ'il a bien 
certainement un périsperme, tandis que J'ai reconnu Pab- 
sence de ce corps dans tous lec Hypericum dont j'ai dissequé 
la semence,"—'The wonder is, that so accurate a Botanist 
as M. de St. Hilaire should have overlooked 2 out of the 3 
styles, which most assuredly exist in this plant, which may 
be seen even with the naked eye, and which almost every 
Botanist who has mentioned the plant describes. It is to be 
regretted that neither Mr. Lindley nor Mr. Arnott in their 
Treatises on the Natural Affinities of Plants, have alluded to 
this genus; so that we are ignorant of their ideas respecting 
it. In the Nouveau Dictionnaire des Sciences Nat., we are told 
that the genus Sarothra has been suppressed and incorrectly 
united to Hypericum, “dont il trés éloigné:" but without 
any information as to its right place in the Natural Method. 
In the Dict. Class. d’ Hist. Nat., itis merely stated that the Sa- 
rothra gentianoides **had been placed among the Caryophyllee 
by Jussieu, who, however, indicated its relation to the Gen- 
tianee: but that the elder Richard having examined the 
plant with care, determined it to belong to Hypericum.” 
Sprengel refers it to Cistoidee in his edition of the Genera 
Plantarum of Linneeus; Bartling, in his Ordines Naturales 
Plantarum, to Hypericee : and, lastly, Torrey, in his * Cata- 
logue of North American Genera of Plants, arranged accord- 
ing to the Orders of Lindley's Introduction to the Nat. Syst. 
of Botany,” refers it to Hypericum itself. 
Amid so many conflicting opinions, it became the more 
necessary to judge for ourselves, and to submit our specimens 
to a minute examination, of which, (allowance being made for 
the circumstance of our only being able to have recourse to 
species in a dried state,) the following is the result:— 
