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7. Pkettt St. John's-wort — {Hypericum pulchrum.) 



V Frequent by waysicles, and on sandy hedgebanks that look sun- 

 wards. Plentiful about Baguley. Fl. July, August. 



Curtis, i. 56 ; E. B. xviii. 1227. 



One of the most elegant of our wild-flowers, recognised immediately, among 

 the St. John's-worts, by its slender stems, pairs of heart-shaped, sessile leaves, 

 red anthers, and red-tipped flower-buds. 



A solitary plant of the Hypericum hirsutum was gathered some years ago on 

 the banks of the IrweU, not far from Agecroft bridge. (J. P.) 



The " Rose of Sharon," a low-growing shrubby plant, with large oval leaves, 

 yellow flowers, two or three inches across, the petals often lobed, five pistils, and 

 stamens innumerable, — a frequent ornament of shrubberies, and blossoming all 

 summer, is the Hypericum calycinum, reputed wild in some parts of England. 

 (E. B. xxix. 2017.) The Hypericum Coris and Hypericum Balearicum are also 

 found in gardens, but rarely. 



IV.— THE CAMELLIA FAMILY. Ternstrdmidcece. 



Beautiful trees and shrubs, Chinese in their most interesting species, 

 but natives principally of the woods of South America. The Asiatic 

 species include the tea-tree or Thea viridis, and the lovely and well- 

 known flower which gives name to the family, and which is the only 

 member of it in ordinary cultivation. The glory of every green-house 

 in early spring, the camellia seems made purposely for evening parties, 

 and ladies' hair and bosoms. The largest and most flourishing and 

 diversified collection of these incomparable flowers, as regards the 

 neighbourhood of Manchester, is that of E. S. Yates, Esq., whose 

 green-houses at Timperley present quite a sea of leaf and bloom. 



v.— THE POPPY FAMILY. Papaverdcea. 



Herbaceous plants, usually of nauseous odour, with simple, alter- 

 nate, often much-divided leaves, and the juice of the stem frequently 

 orange-coloured, red, or milky- white. Sepals two, falling when the 



