40 HYPERICACEJE. (ST. JOHN'S-WORT FAMILY.) 
* * Capsule 3-celled : styles separate: petals black-dotted : herbs. 4 
3. H. perforatum, L. Stem much branched, slightly 2-edged ; cymes - 
corymbose, many-flowered ; leaves elliptical or linear-oblong, obtuse, with pel — 
lucid dots ; sepals lanceolate, acute. — Old fields, sparingly naturalized. June- 
August. — Stem 1°-2° high, bearing runners at the base. Flowers 1’ wide, 
deep yellow. 
4. H. maculatum, Walt. Stem terete, sparingly branched above ; leaves 
oblong-cordate, obtuse, clasping, marked with pellucid dots ; cymes many-flow- 
ered, corymbose ; sepals lanceolate, acute ; styles twice as long as the ovary. — 
Dry pine barrens, Florida to North Carolina. June- August.— Stem 29-39 - 
high. Leaves 1/-1}/ long, rigid. Flowers small. 
5. H. corymbosum, Muhl. Leaves thin, oblong, slightly clasping ; se- 
pals ovate ; styles as long as the ovary ; otherwise nearly as the last. — Moun- | 
tains of North Carolina, Doris and westward. July.— Stem 19 -2? high. 
Leaves 1’-2! long. 
* * * Capsule 1-celled, or partially Seded by the introversion dem the placente. 
+- Shrubs : leaves evergreen. 
++ Cymes leafy. 
6. H. fasciculatum, Lam. Lowest Jeaves obovate, the others narrow- 
linear, with revolute margins, and numerous smaller ones clustered in the axils ; 
cymes mostly 3-flowered, lateral and terminal; sepals like the leaves, mostly . 
shorter than the obovate one-angled petals. — Var. ASPALATHOIDES has veryshort — — 
(2! — 3") and wider leaves and sepals, the latter one third as long as the smaller 
petals. — Margins of pine barren ponds, Florida to North Carolina and west- 
ward. July and August. — Shrub 2°-6° high. Leaves 6'/—12" long, con- 
spicuously dotted, glossy. Capsule oblong-linear. 
7. H. galioides, Lam. Leaves linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, tapering to the 
base, glossy above, rigid ; those in the axils clustered ; cymes lateral and ter- 
minal, few-flowered, or the terminal ones compound ; sepals equal, linear, acute, 
shorter than the petals ; capsules acute. — Pine barrens, Florida to South Caro- 
lina and westward. 
Var. ambiguum. (H.ambiguum, Ell? Torr.4: Gray.) Leavesoblanceo- ——— 
late, mucronate, pale and thin ; sepals unequal, lanceolate, narrowed at the base, 
longer than the petals. — River swamps, Florida. July and August. — Stems 
29-4? high. Branches often elongated. Leaves 1/-1}/ long. 
8. H. myrtifolium, Lam. Leaves cordate-oblong and partly clasping, 
mostly obtuse, glaucous ; cymes few-flowered, terminal; sepals leaf-like, ovate, —— 
acute, as long as the obovate petals; stamens very numerous ; capsule conical- - 
ovate. (H, glaucum, Michx.) — Pine barren ponds, Florida to South Carolina 
and westward. May- September. — Shrub 1° — 2° high, with scelti uite 
branches. Leaves thick, l'long. Flowers 1’ wide.  . : 
9. H. aureum, Bartram. Leaves oblong, mucronate, narrowed at the — — 
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