38 HYPERICINE.E. [Hypericum. 



cliffs on the south isles of Arran ; near Dingle, and on Ireland's Eye. 

 Near Ballintoy ; Mr. Templeton. Fl. July, Aug. %. 



Ord. 12. HYPERICINEiE. Juss. Tutsan Family. 



Calyx 4 — 5 cleft, or of 4 — 5 sepals, persistent, often unequal, 

 with an imbricated aestivation, and dotted or glandular. Petals 

 4 — 5, alternate with the divisions of the calyx, often with ob- 

 lique veins, sometimes with black glands, the aestivation con- 

 torted. Stamens indefinite, usually polyadelphous at the base ; 

 filaments long; anthers small, versatile. Ovary 1. Styles 

 several, often combined ; stigmas simple or capitate. Fruit a 

 many, or 1-celled capsule or berry. Placentae entire, central, 

 or several at the margins of the valves. Seeds numerous. Al- 

 bumen none (De Cand.) Embryo straight. Radicle inferior. — 

 Herbaceous or shrubby plants, variously and copiously glandular, 

 the leaves (which are entire and mostly opposite J often with pellucid 

 dots. Flowers generally yellow. 



A small but very extensively distributed family, yielding a re- 

 sinous and slightly purgative and febrifugal juice. 



1. Hypericum. Linn. St. John's-wort. 



Calyx inferior, in 5 deep divisions. Petals 5. Filaments united 

 at the base into 3 or 5 sets. Capsules many-seeded. — 

 Name, the vwepiKov, of Dioscorides. 



Polyadelphia. Polyandria. 



* Styles 5. 



1. H. calycinum, Linn. Large-flowered St. John's-wort. Styles 

 5 ; flowers solitary ; segments of the calyx unequal, obovate, 

 obtuse ; leaves oblong ; stem shrubby, branched, square. Br. 

 Fl. 1. p. 335. E. Fl. v. Wi.p. 323. E. Bot. t. 2017. 



Woods at Mucruss, 1804 ; in Powerscourt woods, perfectly natural- 

 ized ; it has also been observed, apparently wild, near Cork, by Mr. J. 

 Drummond, but in each case it is probably only the outcast of gardens. 

 Commonly cultivated in shrubberies on account of its beauty. Fl. 

 July — Sept. V} . — Flowers very large, yellow, as in all the genus. Sets 

 of stamens, five. 



>|j sjs Styles 3. Calyx segments entire at the margins. 



2. H. Androscemum, Linn. Tutsan. Styles 3; capsule pulpy ; 

 stem shrubby compressed ; calyx-leaflets unequal ; leaves ovate, 

 sessile. Br. Fl. 1. p. 335. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 364. E. Bot. t. 

 1225. — Androscemum officinale, All. — Lindl. 



Hedges and shrubby places. Hedges and woods in the County of 

 Dublin, County of Down, and various other parts of the country. Fl. 



