POLYADELPHIA—POLYANDRT A. Hypericum. 323 



very numerous, generally oblong, roughish, without al- 

 bumen. 

 Perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple^ \\\\\\o\xi stipulas^ 

 opposite and entire, full of pellucid dots, lodging an es- 

 sential oil. Pet. yellow, often glandular, deciduous. 



1. H. calycinum. Large-flowered St. John*s-wort. 



Styles five. Flowers solitary. Stem shrubby, branched, 

 (juadrangular. Segments of the calyx obovate, obtuse, 

 permanently spreading. Leaves oblong. 



H. calycinum. Linn.MantA^^u JVllld. v. 3. 1442. Cothp.ed.4. 

 12:}. Ir. of Linn. Soc. v. 10. 2GC. Engl. Bot. v. 29. t. 2017. 

 Curt. Mag. ^.146; excl. Baiihm's sijn. IIoo/c. Scot. 22 1 . DcCand. 

 Prodr. V. I. r)4G. Jacq. Fragm. 10. /. G. /. 4. 



Androsaenium constantinopolitanum flore maximo, tl'hdcr's Jour- 

 ney 205. t. 9. 



A. flore et theca seminal! quinquecapsulari omnium maximis, Mo- 

 ris. v. 2. sect. 5. t. 35. y. 2; descr. erroneous. 



In bushy places in the west of Ireland and Scotland. 



Tin-ee miles from Cork, in the way to Bandon, very abundantly, 

 and undoubtedly wild. Mr. Drunimond. Woods above Largs, 

 on the western coast of Scotland, perfectly indigenous ; Nlr. 

 Hopkirk. Hooker. 



Shrub. July — September. 



Hoot creeping. Stems shrubby, erect, 12 or 18 inches high, with 

 simple leafy square branches, smooth like every other part. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, varying in bluntness, coriaceous, ever- 

 green, about 2 inches long, on very short stalks. ^7. 2 or 3 

 inches wide, of a bright golden yellow, with innumerable, red- 

 dish, tremulous anthers. Pet. often lobed at one side. Styles 

 sometimes but 4. 



A great ornament to shrubberies and parks, excellent as a shelter 

 for game, and bearing any cold of our climate. 



2. H. Amlrosectiudn. Tutsan, or Park leaves. 

 Styles three. Capsule pulpy. Stem .shrubby, comju'cssed. 



H. Androsaemum. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 1 02. II Hid. v. 3. 1 44(J. Fl. Br. 



800. Fni:l. Bot. V. 1 8. /. 1225. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. t. 18. Ilooli. 



Scot. 22 \. 

 H, maximum, Androsapmum vulgare dictum. Baii Syn. 343. 

 Androsa*mum. I)od. Pempt. 7f^.f. Dalcch. I list. 1 15()./. 2. 

 A. maximum, (piasi frutescens, bacciferum. Moris. i\ 2. 472. sect. J. 



t.G.f. 12. 

 A. maximum frutescens. Jianh. Pin. 2S0. 

 A. oflieinale. /Illion. I'ed. v. 2. 47. I)c( and. Prodr. v. 1 . 543. 

 ("Ivinenon Ilalorum. Cur. Km. 543. f. Lob. Ic. 632./. 



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