330POLYADELPHIA— POL YANDRIA. Hypericum. 



11. H. elodes. Marsh St. John's-wort. 



Styles three. Calyx obtuse, glandular. Stem procumbent, 

 creeping, round, shaggy, like the roundish obtuse leaves. 

 Panicle of few flowers. 



H. elodes. Linn. Sp. PL] 106. mild.v.3.l465. F/. Br. 805. Engl. 



Bot. V. 2. t. 109. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 2. 13. Hook. Scot. 223. 

 H. tomentosum. Lob. Ic. 400./, Ger. Em. 540. f. 

 Ascyion supinum villosum palustre. Rati Syn. 344. 

 A. supinum elodes. Clus. Exot. app. 2. auctnar. 7. Ger. Em. 542. 

 Caryopliyllus palustris, foliis subrotundis incaniSj floribus aureis. 



Mentz. Pngill. t. 7. 

 Hoary St. Peter's-wort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 60. f. 12. 



In spongy, especially rather mountainous, bogs. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root of many long fibres. Stems procumbent or prostrate, among 

 wet mosses or grass, branched at the bottom only, where they 

 throw out several radicles ; they are round, or obscurely an- 

 gular, about a span long, regularly leafy, of a spongy texture, 

 and shaggy with soft deflexed hairs. Leaves soft and shaggy also, 

 roundish, or nearly orbicular, with several radiating ribs. Pa- 

 nicle at first terminal, becoming subsequently lateral, imperfect- 

 ly forked, of fewjlowers, whose partial stalks are smooth. Brac- 

 teas minute, ovate, fringed with stalked glands. Cal. divided 

 scarcely more than half way, into 5 obtuse ovate segments, 

 fringed with glands. Pet. expanding in sunshine only, pale yel- 

 low, with green ribs. Filam. much less deeply subdivided than 

 in our other species. Caps, ribbed. 



Some of the earlier writers confound this species, chiefly growing 

 in England, Holland, and the north of France, with H. tomen- 

 tosum of Linnaeus, a native of Spain and the south of France. 

 This latter is H. supinum tomentosum hispanicum of Clusius, 

 in his Hist.v. 2. 181./. 1, though the inflorescence is incorrect j 

 while his alterum,/. 2, is our elodes, the cut being that of Lobel 

 and Gerarde above cited. The tomentosum has longer, more 

 upright, ste7ns ,- oblong leaves ; a forked panicle of ma.ny Jlowers, 

 with racemose branches ; downy partial Jlower-stalks, bracteas 

 and cahjx, the segments of the latter being deep and acute, the 

 bracteas lanceolate, and taper-pointed. 



