rOLYANDRIA DI — PENTAGYNIA. 



27 



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it differs also in its acute leaves^ in the capsule^ which is proportionally 

 short, and in a panicle wliich is much more compacts 

 Flowers* 



7> Macu 



Walt 



\ 



H 



b r II m 

 turn 



ectum 



? 



? 



nigro 



9 



folii 





pimcta 

 cordate 



ovatis, ovalib 

 arete sessilibuj 





Ereet, glabrous dot- 

 ted with black; leaves 

 cordate-ovate and o- 

 val, sessile; panicle 



? 



termi 

 ered, 

 rymb 



? 



closely flow 



somewhat 



CO 



377 



ciilis terminalibus, 

 deiisiiloris, subcorym- 

 bosis. 



Walt. p. 189. Mich. 2. p. 80. 

 H. corymbosum. Sp. pi. 3. p. : 



Stem about 2 feet high, terete, and with every 'part of the plant, except 

 the filajnents and styles, spotted with black dots. Leaye^ sometimes 

 acute, sitting so closely as to embrace the stem. Floicers in a compound 

 compact and somewhat pyramidal pamicle. Leaves of the calyx united 

 and tubular at base, the segments equal. Petals obovate, twice as long 

 as the calyx. Filaments numerous, a little shorter than the corolla. Styles 

 S, longer than the stamens. Stigmas obtuse^ purple 

 3 valved. 



Capsule 3 celled, 



Grows in dry pine barrens. 



r^ 



Augu 



species 



unite 



differ from the shrubby Hypericum's in their habJt, and by their 1 celled 

 capsule. It is })robable however that the germs of these species are natu-< 

 raUy 3 celled, but the partitions being very delicate are effaced by age. 



In the H. maculatum thnse narfitinnc nr^ i»i nil tJmPO HJctln^fKr vIcIKIa 



^ * Fru ticosa, tri^ 



gijna 



8. ASPALATHOIDES. 



H. floribus trigynis 



solitariis 



J 



} 



alaribus -, 



stylis coadunatis; fo- 

 liis fasciculatis linea- 

 ribus, acutis, striatis; 

 caule fruticoso, dicho- 

 tomo. Willd. 





** Shruhhy, tri 

 gynous. 



Flowers trigynoiis, 



solitary^winged; styles 

 united; leaves cluster- 

 ed, linear, acute, stri- 

 ate; stem frutescent, 

 dichotoraous. 





Sp PI. 3.p.Z45J. Pursh. 2. p. 37^. 



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