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Sandy woods, Nantucket ! Long Island! and New Jersov ! to Virf^inia. 

 May. — About a span high: primary branches elongated; floral ones very 

 short. Leaves 3-4 lines long, rather scattered on the old stems. Stamens 

 about 15. 



2. H. montana (Nutt.) : minutely pubescent ; stems decumbent ; leaves 

 filiform-subulate, partly imbricated ; peduncles longer than the flowers ; calyx 

 campanulate, lanuginous ; sepals acuminate, the outer ones longer and subu- 

 late ; capsules villous, mostly 3-seeded. Nutt.! gen. 2. p. 5; DC. I. c. 



On the highest summits of the mountains of N. Carolina; particularly on 

 Table Rockj' of the Catawba Ridge, Nuttall .'—Stem 3-5 inches high. 

 Leaves about a line longer than in H. ericoides. Peduncles about an inch 

 long in fruit. Flowers more than twice the size of those of the preceding 

 species ; the capsules 3 times the size, and furnished with distinct central 

 septiforra sutures. Stamens 15-30. Null. 



3. //. tomentosa {^Mii.) : canescently tomentose; leaves minute, ovate- 

 oblong, acute, very closely imbricated; flowers nearly sessile (the peduncles 

 not longer than the leaves) ; sepals obtuse ; capsules ovate, glabrous (about 

 3-ovuled), commonly 1-seeded.— AW^ .' sren.2.p. 5; Bigel. Ji. Host. ed. 2. 

 p. 213; DC. I. c.; Sweet, Cist. t. 57; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 73. H. 

 ericoides, Lam. ill t. 407 ? ; Richard.^, app. Frankl. journ. ed. 2. p. 18. 



Shore of the ocean from Massachusetts ! to Maryland ! and of all the 

 Great Lakes, from Lake Champlain to Slave Lake, and on St. Peter's 

 River ! May. — Stems ascending, intricately branched : branches short. 

 Leaves about a line long. Flowers smaller than in the other species. Outer 

 sepals very minute. Stamens 9-18. 



Order XXI. HYPERICACE.E. Jiiss. 



Sepals 4-5, distinct or united at the base, often unequal, persistent : 

 aestivation imbricated. Petals as many as the sepals and alternate 

 with them, hypogynous, marcescent or deciduous ; veins oblique : testi- 

 ration twisted. Stamens hypogynous, usually very numerous and 

 more or less cohering at the base into three or more parcels, rarely 

 definite and monadelphous or quite distinct, often persistent : anthers 

 fixed by the middle, introrse. Ovary composed of 2-') united carpels : 

 styles slender, distinct or partly united, persistent : stigmas simple or 

 somewhat capitate. Fruit baccate, or capsular with 2-5 valves and a 

 septicidal dehiscence, either (completely or incompletely) 2-5.celled 

 with the placenta; in the a.xis or 1 -celled with the placentae nearly or 

 quite parietal. Seeds very numerous and minute, or rarely few, straight 

 or a little curved, anatropous : testa coriaceous ; the tegmen mem- 

 branaceous or rarely fleshy : albumen none. Embryo cylindrical, 

 straight.— Herbs, shrubs, or trees, having a resinous juice, variously 

 and copiously dotted with glands. Leaves opposite, entire, exstipulate, 

 copiously dotted with immersed pellucid resinous glands, and often 

 (as also the sepals and petals) sprinkled with black glandular dots or 

 lines. Inflorescence various. Flowers commonly yellow. 



