In meadows, dry or damp or rocky thickets, on seepage slopes, along wooded 

 streams and on slopes in s.e. Okla. (McCurtain Co.) and e. Tex., June-Aug.; from 

 Ga. to Tex. and Ark., n. to s.e. N.Y., Ont. and Minn. 



6. Hypericum galioides Lam. Fig. 528. 



Shrub 3-18 dm. high; leaves narrowly linear to linear-oblanceolate, narrowed to 

 the base, obtuse to acute at apex, to 3 cm. long and 5 mm. wide, usually noticeably 

 verticillate and marginally revolute in drying; flowers numerous, terminal or axil- 

 lary; sepals linear to linear-spatulate, 3-4 mm. long; petals bright-yellow, narrowly 

 cuneate, obliquely or almost laterally pointed, 4-7 mm. long; capsules triangular- 

 conic, subtruncate-rounded at base, tapering to the acute apex, deeply sulcate, 5-6 

 mm. long, the persistent 3 styles about 2 mm. long. 



In wet pinelands, swamps and depressions, about ponds and lakes, and along 

 ditches in s.e. Tex., May- Aug.; from Fla. to Tex., n. to Tenn. and N.C. 



7. Hypericum fasciculatum Lam. Sand-weed. Fig. 528. 



Shrub to about 1 m. high; bark dark-brown, spongy-thickened, exfoliating in 

 tissue-thin sheets; leaves verticillate, numerous, crowded, typically linear-filiform 

 or very narrowly linear, coriaceous, revolute, 1-2 cm. long, mostly about 1 mm. 

 wide, with a cluster of smaller leaves in the axils of the larger ones; flowers several 

 terminating the upper branches; sepals linear, 3-4 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide; 

 petals bright-yellow, obliquely apiculate, 7-8 mm. long; capsules ovoid to ovoid- 

 conic, 4-5 mm. long, 3-lobed. H. galioides var. fasciculatum (Lam.) Svens. 



In wet places about ponds and lakes, in low pinelands and along forested streams, 

 in s.e., Tex., June-Aug.; from Fla. to Tex., n. to N.C. 



This species is closely allied to H. galioides. The juvenile leaves found on seed- 

 lings and sometimes on adult plants are very similar to the leaves found on that 

 species. 



8. Hypericum nudiflorum Michx. 



Shrub to 2 m. high, usually much smaller, the stems ligneous below, sending up 

 long subherbaceous brown-barked 4-angled flowering branches; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate to linear-oblong, obtuse, thin, to about 7 cm. long, pale-green, minutely 

 punctate beneath, revolute in drying, usually without axillary fascicles; flowers 

 numerous, in open terminal dichotomous cymes; bracts lance-subulate, 2-3 mm. 

 long; sepals firm, linear to oblong, 2-5 mm. long; petals to 1 cm. long; styles 3; 

 capsules ovoid, to 7 mm. long, with 3 inwardly projecting placentae. 



In moist sandy woods, thickets or swamps in e. Tex., June-Aug.; from Fla. to 

 Tex., n. to Va. and Tenn. 



9. Hypericum apocynifolium Small. 



Shrub 4-7 dm. high, the stems with red somewhat shreddy bark and the branch- 

 lets narrowly 4-winged; leaves essentially sessile, oblong to oblong-elliptic, more 

 or less cuneate at the base, rounded to emarginate at apex, 2-4 cm. long, thin, 

 bright-green, pale beneath, minutely punctate, rarely revolute; flowers 3 to 5 in 

 terminal cymes; sepals spatulate to elliptic or oval, obtuse, persistent, 3-5 mm. long, 

 at least one half as long as the petals; petals yellow, oblong, 8-9 mm. long; capsules 

 oblong-conic, thick-walled, to 14 mm. long, acute. 



In swamps and marshes in n.e. Tex., June-Aug.; from Ga. and Fla. to Tex. 

 and Ark. 



10. Hypericum cisfifoHum Lam. 



Slender subherbaceous perennial; stem somewhat woody, reddish-brown, promi- 

 nently 2-winged and simple or very sparingly branched, to 9 dm. high; leaves firm, 

 linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, to 3 cm. long and 6 mm. wide, obtuse to sub- 



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