324 POLYADELPHIA— POLYANDRIA. Hypericum. 



Tutsan, or Park leaves. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 60. f. 9. 



In moist shady lanes, thickets and woods, not very general. 



About North Walsham, Norfolk. Rev. Mr. Hepworth. At Field 

 Bailing, Norfolk, and very plentifully at Asheridge, Herts. Mr. 

 Woodward. Not uncommon in woods in Ireland. Rev. Mr. 

 Butt. In the western part of Scotland chiefly. Hooker. 



Shrub. July, August. 



Rather taller and more branched than the preceding, its branches 

 quadrangular, more or less compressed. Leaves ovate, or some- 

 what heart-shaped, sessile, widely spreading. Panicles terminal, 

 erect, forked, many-flowered, with angular or winged smooth 

 stalks. Fl. an inch wide, yellow, with 3 sets of stamens, and as 

 many styles. Caps, finally pulpy, purplish-black, imperfectly 

 3-celled, as are many of the dry capsules of other species. 



The leaves and other parts have an aromatic scent when rubbed. 

 This species is said not to have been found out of Britain and 

 Ireland, except in Italy and the South of France j but Dr. Sib- 

 thorp gathered it in Greece. 



3. H. quadrangulum. Square St. John's-wort. St. 

 Peter's-wort. 



Styles three. Stem herbaceous, with four sharp angles. 

 Leaves with copious pellucid dots. Segments of the ca- 

 lyx lanceolate. 



Hypericum quadrangulum. Linn. Sp. PL 1 104. Willd. v. 3. 1459. 



'fl Br. 801. EngL Bot. v. 6. t. 370. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t. 52. 



Hook. ScoL 22 1 . DeCand. Prodr. v. 1 . 548. Fl. Dan. t. 640. 

 H. n. 1038. HalLHist.v.2.5. 



H. Ascyron dictum, caule quadrangulo. Rail Syn.344. 

 H. in dumetis nascens. Trag. Hist. 73. f. I. 

 Androssemum Ascyrum dictum, caule quadrangulo glabro. Moris. 



v.2.47\.secLD'.t.6.f. 10. 

 St. Peter's-wort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 60./. 1 I3 calyx had. 



Common in moist meadows and thickets, and about the banks of 

 rivers. 



Perennial. July, August. 



1^00^ somewhat woody, creeping. Hier6 smooth, light green. Stems 

 several, from 1 to 2 feet high, erect, leafy, acutely quadrangular 

 with convex interstices, beset from top to bottom with short, 

 opposite, axillary, leafy branches. Leaves crossing each other 

 in pairs, sessile, elliptical, or ovate, obtuse, many-ribbed, veiny, 

 full of minute, colourless, pellucid dots, and bordered with a 

 more or less perfect row of dark-coloured ones, yielding a blood- 

 red liquor. The uppermost branches form a leafy dense panicle, 

 of numerous lemon-coloured flowers, about half the size of the 

 last. Segments of the calyx lanceolate, narrow, acute, ribbed, 

 entire, without marginal glands. Pet. oblique, sometimes dotted 



