528POLYADELPHIA~POLYANDRIA.Hypericum. 



In bushy places in Scotland. 



By the side of a hedge, near the wood of Aberdalgy in Strath 

 Earn, Perthshire. Mj\ G. Don, 



Perennial. September, October. 



Stems herbaceous, a foot or more in height, erect, straight, leafy, 

 simple, except at the top, smooth, round j slightly quadrangular 

 in the upper part 3 purplish below. Leaves sessile, clasping the 

 stem, ovate, entire, slightly revolute, smooth, veiny, besprinkled 

 with pellucid dots, and less regularly with dark glandular spots, 

 a little prominent on both sides in the dried specimen ; the lower 

 ones most obtuse ; upper somewhat pointed. Ft. bright yellow, 

 in a terminal, upright, forked, somewhat leafy panicle. Brae- 

 teas, as well as the segments of the calyx, ovate, acute, plenti- 

 fully streaked and dotted with dark purple, the edges of both 

 densely and elegantly fringed with long pale hairs, not tipped 

 with black glands like the preceding species. Pet. obovate, mi- 

 nutely fringed or toothed, especially at the extremity, and mark- 

 ed with black glandular dots. Stam. in 3 sets. Caps, covered 

 with resinous dots, but not wrinkled. 



Dr. Hooker well observes that the long hairs of the margin of the 

 calyx render this species very distinct. No botanist has remark- 

 ed its great affinity to H. perfoliatum of Linnaeus, or to Willde- 

 now's ciliatum, to the latter of which belongs the hitherto neg- 

 lected synonym of Columna, Androscemum alterum apulum, 

 Ecphr. 77. t.78.f.l. In both these the calyx is fringed with 

 short glandular bristles, and in the former of them the capsule 

 is strongly wrinkled transversely. DeCandolle seems to have 

 omitted this species. 



9. H. hlrsutum. Hairy St. John's-wort. 

 Styles three. Calyx lanceolate, w ith glandular serratures. 

 Stem erect, round. Leaves ovate, downy. 



H. hirsutum. Linn. Sp. PL 1 105. mild. v. 3. 1465. Fl. Br. 804. 



Engl. Bot. V, 17. t. 1 156. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. ^.49. Hook. Scot. 



222. DeCand.Prodr.v.\.55]. Fl. Dan. t. 802. Ehrh. Herb. 



160. 

 H. n. 1043. Hall. Hist. v. 2.7. 

 H. Androseemum dictum. Rail Syn. 343. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 



382. f. 

 H. in dumetis nascens. Trag. Hist. 73. f. 2. 

 Androssemum Ascyron dictum, caule rotundo hirsuto. Moris, v. 2. 



47\.sect.5. t. 6.f. 11. 

 A. alterum hirsutum. Column. Ecphr. 75. t. 74. f. 2. 

 Ascyrum. Fuchs. Hist. 74. f. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 287. f. Camer. 



Epit.676. larger/. Dod. Pempt.78.f. Ger.Ein. 542./. Lob. 



Ic. 399./. Dalech. Hist. 1155./. 

 Tutsan St. John's-wort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 60./. 10. 



In thickets and hedges, chiefly on a dry chalky soil. 



