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 //. perforatum. Segments 

 of the cali/x 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 Ascijrum of the old herbalists appears, by their representation 

 of the calyx, to be this plant, and v\otH. qua rlr unguium, 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. Yi. pulchrum. Small Upright St. John's-wort. 



Styles three. Calyx ovate, with glandular serratures. Stem 



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



smooth. 

 H. pulchrum. Linn. Sp.Pl.\\{)Q. fVilld. v. 3. 146S. FL Br. 804. 



Engl.Bot.v. 18. t. 1227. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1. t.b&. Hook. Scot. 



222. Trag. Hist. 74./. DeCand. Prodr. v. 1.551. Fl. Dan. t. lb, 



not 73. Elirh. Fhytoph. 36. 

 H. n. 1041. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 6. 



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

 Anflrosaemum. Louie. 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 1 2 

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

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

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

 heart-shaped, or ovate, short, convex : dark green, with a glau- 

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

 coming yellow, or more frequently bright red, which combined 

 with the goldeny/o^fer.s-, ti])ped externally with scarlet, and the 

 red anthers, gives the ))lant a peculiarly gay as})ect, rendering 

 it worthy of the a])pellation o( pulchrum, adojjted originally by 

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

 and their black glandular fringes, like those of the petals, add 

 also to the beauty of [hvjlowrrs. Tiie capsule is ovate, smooth 

 and even. 



