POLYANDRIA Di-PENTAGYNiA. Hypericum, 



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simplex. 



23. H. erectum, simplicissimum, lannlosura ; caule tereti, 

 folii.s oblongis adpiessis, floribus paucis lerminalibus. 

 — Mich.fi. umer. 2. p. 80. 



H. pilosum. Wait. Ji. car. I90. 



H. ferrugineum. Herb. Bunks. 7nss. 



Ascyruni villosum. IVilld. sp. pi. 3. p. 1^/4. 



Icon, Pluk. aim. t. 245./ t). 



In Lower Carolina and Georgia, G • July, Aug. v. s. 

 2.4, H. procumbens, glaberrimum ; raoiis ancipitibus sum- procumbens 

 mitale paucirtoris, foliis linearibus enerviis patiilis, ca- 

 lycinis foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, staminiijus 

 corolla brevioribus, stylis coadunatis. — Mich.Ji. amer. 

 2. /). 8 1 . JFilld. 5p. p/. 3 . p, i 450 ? 



On dry sunny hills of Kentucky. Michaux. +, The 

 calyx is as large as the corolla. 



450. ELODEA, Adanson. 

 Hyperici sp. Linn. 



1. E, foliis sessilibus amplexicaulibus cordato-oblongis ob- campanulata. 



tusissimis, fasciculis pedunculatis paucifloris axillaribus 

 et terminalibus, corollis subcampanulatis, staminibus 

 9 — 12. levissime basi coalitis. 



Hypericum virginicum. IVilld. sp. pi. 3. p. 1455. 



Hypericum campanulatum. IFalt.Jl. car. 191. 



Icon. Bot. rep. 552. 

 (3. E. foliis cordato-ovatis emarginatis, pedunculis axillari- emarginata. 

 bus elnngatis. 



Hypericum emarginatum. Lam. encycl. 4. p. 154. 



In bogs and wet meadows : Canada to Carolina. 1/ , 

 July — Sept. V. V. /3. V. s. in Herb. Lambert. Flow- 

 ers yellowish-red, very handsome. 



2. E. foliis sessilibus, corollis tubulosis, staminibus plus- tululosa. 



quam ad medium connatis. 

 Hypericum tubulosum. Walt. Jl. car. I9I, 

 In Carolina, Walter. -\- . 1 observed in the vicinity 

 of the Dismal -swamp in North Carolina, a species 

 belonging to this genus, of which i have no specimen 

 in ray Herbarium, and which probably may be the 

 species alluded to by Walter. The leaves are elliptic 

 and acute ; the flowers nearly sessile in the axils of the 

 leaves, solitary or by two or three ; tlip petals are long 

 and acute, pale red ; capsules long, prismatic. 



3. E. foliis petiolatis oblongo-ovalibus rotundato-obtusis, peliolatn. 



