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shrubby looking- plant, from three to three and a half feet in height ; 

 the stem is suffruticose, and round ; branches are somewhat wing-ed ; 

 leaves ovate, very blunt ; calyx lanceolate, acute ; peduncles some- 

 times bibracteate ; stamens equal in length with the corolla. The 

 herb is scentless. Native of Greece and die Levant. Flowers in 

 September. 



Hypericum Jioribtmdum. Bundle-flowered St. John's- wort. This 

 is a shrubby plant, varying in height from two to four feet, with a round 

 stem ; leaves sessile, lanceolate, numerous, without dots ; peduncles 

 dilated and somewhat compressed towards die apex; calyx obtuse ; 

 corolla and stamens marcescent. It is a native of the Canary Islands, 

 and flowers during the month of August. 



I/ypericum cordifoUum. Heart-leaved St. John's-wort. This is 

 a shmbby looking plant, sending up a round stem about two feet high ; 

 leaves elliptical, acute, coriaceous, smooth, somewhat stem-clasping, 

 without dots ; flower-bearing branches crowded, and leafy below ; 

 bracteas ovate-cordate, acute ; sepals ovate, mucronate, without dots ; 

 petals oblong, unequal-sided, obliquely mucronulate ; stamens short ; 

 styles unconnected, scarcely longer than the corolla. This plant is a 

 native of Nipaul, and flowers from April till October. 



Hypericum cpiinqucncrvium. Five-nerved-leaved St. John's-wort. 

 This is a small, delicate looking plant, with a stem about one foot in 

 height ; and which is tetragonal ; leaves somewhat stem-clasping, 

 ovate, obtuse, obscurely five-nerved, full of pellucid dots, which are 

 acute on the under surface ; corymbs dichotomous ; sepals linear-lan- 

 ceolate. This is a perennial, herbaceous, hardy plant. NaUvc of the 

 United States, and found quite plenty from Canada to Carolina, in over- 

 flowed places. It is also found on Mount Quindiu, in South America. 



Hypericum, axillare. Axillary-flowered St. John's-wort. This 

 species has a shrubby, round stem, somewhat diffused ; leaves lance- 

 olate-linear, naiTOwed at the base, with revolute margins ; sepals rather 

 unequal ; styles at first joined, but afterwards free ; peduncles on the 

 top of the branches axillary, three-flowered, with the middle flower 



