40 IIYI'ERICACK.E. (ST. JOIIN's-AVOKT FAMILY.) 



* * Capsule 3<elled : styles sqmrate : petals black-dnih d : hi rbs. 



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 l°-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- 

 cred, corymbose ; sepals lanceolate, acute; styles twice as lonjr as the ovary. — 

 Dry pine barrens, Florida to North Carolina. June -August. — Stem 2°-S° 

 high. Leaves l'-lV long, rigid. Flowers small. 



5. H. corynibosum, 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, northward and westward. July. — Stem l°-2° high. 

 Leaves l'-2' long. 



* * * Capsule \-celled, or partially 3-relIed by the introversion of tin; placental, 



-*- Shrubs : leaves evergreen. 



■w Cymes leafy. 



6. H. fasciculatum, Lam. Lowest leaves 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. — Yar. ASPALATHOIDKS has very short 

 (2"-3") and wider leaves and sepals, the latter one third as long a- the smaller 

 petals. — Margins of pine barren ponds, Florida to North Carolina and west- 

 ward. July and August. — Shrub 2°-G° high. Leaves 6"- 12" long, con- 

 spicuously dotted, glossy. Capsule oblong-linear. 



7. H. galioides, Lam. Leaves linear-oblanccolatc, 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, 

 Bhorter than the petals ; capsules acute. — Fine barrens, Florida to South Caro- 

 lina and westward. 



Var. ambiguum. (H. ambiguum, Ett. f Tanr.fr Gray.) Leaves oblancco- 

 late, mucronate, pale and thin ; sepals unequal, lanceolate, narrowed at the base, 

 r than the petals. — Giver swamps, Florida* July and August.— Stuns 

 2°-4° high. Branches often elongated. Leaves l'-lj' long. 



8. H. myrtifolium, Lam. Leaves cordate-oblong and partly clasping, 

 mostly obtuse, glaucous; cymes few-flowered, terminal ; sepal* Leaf-like, ovate, 

 acute, as long as the obovate petals ; Btamens very numerous ; eapsule conicat 

 orate, ( II. glaucum, Michx.) — Pine barren ponds, Florida to Booth < larolina 

 and westward. May- September. — Bhrub l°-2° high, with spreading terete 

 bronchi Deav thick, I 1 long: Flowers I' wide. 



''■ FI. aurcura, Bartram. Leaves oblong', mucro nate, narrowed at the 

 base, wavy on the margins, glaucous beneath ; lowers very large, mostly solitary 

 at the summit of the 2-edged branches ; sepals leaf-like, shorter than the thick and 

 tardily deciduous petals ; stamens very numerous ; capsuk ovate, much smaller 



