POLYADELPHIA— POLYANDRIA.Hypericum.327 



A pretty little procumbent smooth species^ with the lemon.like 

 scent of H. dubium and perforatum. Root fibrous. Stems va- 

 riously branched, compressed, or two-edged, slender. Leaves 

 elliptical, obtuse, pliant, various in breadth, their margin dotted 

 with black. Fl. few, bright yellow, somewhat corymbose. Cal. 

 remarkably leafy and large, dotted at the edges, sometimes 

 furnished, like the petals, with marginal glands. Caps, red in 

 ripening, a colour which the leaves assume in decay. 



7. H. montamim. Mountain St. John's-wort. 



Styles three. Calyx with dense, prominent, glandular ser- 

 ratures. Stem erect, round, smooth. Leaves ovate, naked, 

 clasping the stem. 



H. montanum. Linn. Sp. PL 1 105. Willd.v.3. 1463. FL £r.803. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 6. /. 37 1 . Hook. Scot. 222. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 

 18. 19. DeCand. Prodr. v. 1.552. FL Dan. t. 173. 



H.n. 1042. HalLHist.v.2.6. 



H. elegantissimum non ramosum, folio lato. Raii Si/n. 343. Baiih. 

 Hist.v. 3. p. 2. 383./. 



Androsagmum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 288. /. Fuchs. Hist. 76. /. 

 Camer. Epit. 677 ? 



A. campoclarense. Column. Ecphr. 73. t. 74. 



Tway-blade St. John's-wort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 60. f. 7. 



On wild bushy hills, on a gravelly or chalky soil. 



Perennial. July. 



Root fibrous, scarcely creeping. Stems very straight and upright, 

 about 2 feet high, simple, round, smooth, most leafy in the 

 lower part. Leaves 1^ or 2 inches long, sessile, clasping the 

 stem, ovate, generally rather acute, smooth, besprinkled with 

 small pellucid dots 3 the under side paler, marked at the edge 

 with black dots. Panicle dense, of a few elongated forked 

 branches, not leafy. Bracieas opposite, lanceolate, pinnatifid, 

 fringed, like the lanceolate calyx, with numerous, dark, stalked, 

 viscid glands. Pet. pale lemon-coloured, elliptical, entire, 

 without spots or glands. 



Though not an ostentatious plant, this species well deserves John 

 Bauhin's epithet of " most elegant." The glutinous dark fringes 

 of its calyx and bracteas resemble the glands of a Moss Rose. 



8. H. barhatum. Bearded St. John's-wort. 



Styles three. Calyx and petals fringed and dotted. Stem 



erect, somewhat angular. Leaves ovate, naked, dotted 



and glandular, clasping the stem. 

 H. barbatum. Jacq. Austr. v. 3.33. t.2^^. Linn. Hyper. 6. Amctn. 



Acad. V. 8. 323. Willd. Sp. PL y. 3. 1462. Comp. ed. 4. 126. 



Engl. Bot. V. 28. t. 1986. Hook. Scot. 222. 



