HY PERICACEAE. [Vor. II. 
8. Hypericum dolabriforme Vent. Straggling 
St. John’s-wort. (Fig. 2451.) 
Hypericum dolabriforme Vent. Hort. Cels. pl. 45. 1800. 
Straggling and branching, decumbent, 6’-20’ high; branch- 
lets slightly angled. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 8//— 
20’’ long, 1/’-2’’ wide, acute or obtusish, spreading or as- 
cending, with smaller ones clustered in the axils; cymes 
terminal, leafy, few-several-flowered; pedicels about %// 
long; flowers nearly 1’ broad; sepals foliaceous, lanceolate or 
ovate, acute or acuminate, nearly or quite as long as the 
oblique pointed petals; stamens numerous, distinct; styles 
3, united below; capsule ovoid-conical, coriaceous, 3//-4/” 
long, 1-celled; seeds rugose. 
On dry hills, barrens of Kentucky and Tennessee. July-Aug. 
9. Hypericum ellipticum Hook. 
Elliptic-leaved or Pale St. John’s-wort. 
(Fig. 2452.) 
H. ellipticum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 110. 1830. 
Herbaceous, perennial; stem somewhat 4- 
angled, simple or with few branches, erect, 8’— 
20’ high. Leaves thin, spreading, elliptic or 
oval, obtuse, sessile, narrowed at the base or 
partly clasping, 8’/-15’” long, 3//-5’’ wide; 
cymes terminal, few-flowered, leafless but 
bracted; flowers pale yellow, nearly sessile, 
5/’-7/’ broad; sepals spreading, oblong or 
oblanceolate, slightly shorter than the petals; 
styles 3, united below; stamens numerous; 
capsule ovoid-globose, 1-celled, about 2’/ long; 
seeds striate; sepals and petals sometimes 4. 
In swamps and along streams, Nova Scotia to a 
v4 ANS 
Manitoba, Connecticut, northern New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania and Minnesota. July—Aug. 
1o. Hypericum virgatum Lam. Vir- 
gate or Copper-colored St. John’s- 
wort. (Fig. 2453.) 
Hypericum virgatum Lam. Encycl. 4: 158. 1797- 
H. angulosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.2: 78, 1803. 
wl Slender, herbaceous, erect or ascending, 
y<\y simple, or branched above, 1°-2%2° high, the 
stem and branches 4-angled. Lower leaves 
ascending or erect, oblong-lanceolate, acute 
or obtusish, 8’’-15’’ long, 2’/-4’’ wide, sessile; 
cyme terminal, ample, compound, bracted, 
pedicels %’/-2’” long; flowers numerous, cop- 
per-yellow, alternate, 4’’-6’’ broad; sepals 
foliaceous, ovate or lanceolate, keeled, more 
or less shorter than the petals; styles 3, dis- 
ip : 5) tinct; stigmas capitate; capsule 1-celled, ovoid, 
2’’ long, enclosed by the sepals. 
In low grounds, Delaware to Illinois, south to 
Florida, July—Sept. 
Hypericum virgatum ovalifolium Britton, Trans. N. 
Y. Acad. Sci. g: 10. 1889. 
wide, erect, appressed, very obtuse. Pine- 
” 
Leaves oval or broadly elliptic, 2'’-10'' long, 114''-7 
barrens of New Jersey. 
