POLYADELPHIA— POLYANDRIA.Hypericum.S29 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root branching at the crown, sending up several erect stems, which 

 are about 2 feet high, straight, round, leafy, panicled at the top, 

 with or without short axillary branches, and clothed, like the 

 foliage and stalks, with short downy hairiness, very soft to the 

 touch. Leaves sessile, ovate, bluntish, furnished with pellucid 

 dots, intermixed with a few dark ones ; paler and most downy 

 beneath, with many lateral ribs. Fl. very numerous, of a uni- 

 form bright yellow, about the size of H. perforatum. Segments 

 of the calyx lanceolate, ribbed, smooth, fringed, like the brac- 

 teas, with numerous black viscid glands on shortish stalks^ such 

 as also terminate the petals. Caps, smooth and even. 



The Ascyrum of the old herbalists appears, by their representation 

 of the calyx, to be this plant, and not H. quadrangulum, to which 

 last some of their synonyms have been referred. If, instead of 

 copying, from Dioscorides and each other, various futile accounts 

 which afford no information, they had plainly told us whether 

 their plant were smooth or downy, with a round or four-wing- 

 ed stem^ all would have been clear and satisfactory. 



10. H. pulc/irum. Small Upright St. JobnVwort. 



Styles three. Calyx ovate, with glandular serratures. Stem 

 erect, round. Leaves clasping the stem, heart-shaped, 

 smooth. 



H. pulchrum. Lin7i. Sp. PI. 1 106. TVilld. v. 3. 1468. Fl. Br. 804. 

 Engl. Bot. v.XB.t. 1227. Curt. Lond.fasc. \.t.56. Hook. Scot. 

 222. Trag.Hist.74.f, DeCand. Prodr.v.l. 55). Fl.Dan.t.7b, 

 not 73. Ekrh. Phytoph. 36. 



H. n. 1041. Hall. Hist. V. 2.6. 



H. pulchrum Tragi. Baii Syn. 342. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 383./. 



Androssemum. Lonic. Kreuterb. 158./. 3. 



Upright St. John's-wort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 60./ 6. 



In woods and bushy heathy places on a clay soil, frequent. 



Perennial. July. 



Root branching, woody and tough. Herb very smooth. Stem 12 

 or 18 inches high, erect, straight, slender, round, rigid, leafy, 

 panicled at the top, and with many short leafy axillary branches 

 all the way up. Leaves firm and rigid, sessile, often deflexed, 

 heart-shaped, or ovate, short, con vex 5 dark green, with a glau- 

 cous tinge, above J paler beneath 5 the lower ones soon be- 

 coming yellow, or more frequently bright red, which combined 

 with the goldenshowers, tipped externally with scarlet, and the 

 red anthers, gives the plant a peculiarly gay aspect, rendering 

 it worthy of the appellation of pulchrum, adopted originally by 

 the venerable Tragus. The segments of the cahjx are ovate, 

 and their black glandular fringes, like those of thepetals, add 

 also to the beauty of ihejlowers. The capsule is ovate, smooth 

 and even. 



