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at the base ; the flowers are terminating-, large, and of a bright yel- 

 low. It grows most naturally in Majorca. 



JFft/pcriaim Asajron. Great-flowered St. Peter's-wort. This spe- 

 cies has a stem about two feet high, round, smooth, and rufescent ; — 

 the leaves are pale green, paler underneath, about an iitch long and 

 half an inch ^vide, roundish, opposite ; the flowers terminating ; calyx 

 green ; corolla pale yellow, and about five times as large as the com- 

 mon sort. This is a native of the middle sections of the United States. 



Hypericum Androscemum. Common Tustan. This plant has a 

 perennial, thick, woody root, of a reddish color, and sends out a num- 

 ber of very long slender filjres ; the stems are suffi'uticose or under- 

 shrubby, ancipital, two-edged, or slightly winged on opposite sides, 

 from two to three feet liigh, branched towards the top, of a reddish 

 color, and smooth ; branches brachiate or decussated, and spreading ; 

 the leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, entire, smooth, dark green, glauce- 

 ous on the under side, netted with numerous projecting- veins and 

 nen-es, which become through age ferruginous ; on the stem they are 

 about two inches long, and an inch and a half broad at the base ; — 

 those on the branches are smaller, of different sizes, and some of them 

 approaching to lanceolate ; the flowers are small for the size of the 

 plant, and disposed in a cyme ; the peduncles are round, smooth, 

 usually two or three flowered, but sometimes only one flowered ; the 

 fruit is an ovate capsule, assuming the appearance of a berry, at first 

 sight of a yellowish-green, then red or brownish-purple, and lastly al- 

 most black when ripe. This is a native of the southern parts of Eu- 

 rope. 



f/i/pcriaim Cmutriensc. Canary St. John's-wort. This species 

 rises with a shrubby stalk six or eight feet high, and dividing into 

 branches at the top ; the leaves are oblong, set by pairs close to the 

 branches, having a strong smell, but not so foetid as some of the other 

 varieties ; the flowers terminate in clusters, very much like those of 

 the preceding sort. It is a native of the Canary Islands, and flowers 

 from July till September. 



