286 HYPERICACE^. Hypericum. 



and more or less lilack-dotted : flowers solitary (sometimes in threes) and terminal, on long 

 peduncles, about an inch broad : sepals obovate, not half so long as the petals : capsule 

 conical, 4 to 5 lines long. — Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 1, xliv. 80; Chapm. Fl. 39. — Cliffs, moun- 

 tains of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The original form of the specific 

 name is that given above, and not H. Buckleyi, as commonly printed. 



++++++ Styles 3 : capsule 1 -celled, or almost 3-celled by the projecting placenta : shrubby 

 at least at base. 



= Placental projecting nearly to the centre of the ovary. 



a. Sepals broad, ovate, foliaceous : flowers large and showy, solitary or in leafy cymes : 

 leaves rather broad and somewhat coriaceous : shrubby. 



H. aureum, Bartram. Widely branched above, 2 to 4 feet high : leaves oblong, more or 

 less attenuate at base, obtuse or acute, 1 to 3 inches long, 3 to 9 lines broad : flowers often 

 solitary, 1 to 2 inches broad, very showy : sepals very unequal, often enclosing the capsule : 

 petals orange-yellow, firm, reflexed : stamens excessively numerous : capsule ovate-conical, 

 not lobed, 3 to .5 lines long. — Travels, 383 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 161. H. frondosum, Michx. 

 Fl. ii. 81 ; Chois. in DC. Prodr. i. .544. H. ascyroides, var. |3, Poir. Suppl. iii. 694. //. amoenum, 

 Pursh, 1. c. 375 ; Nutt. Gen. ii. 16 ; Chois. 1. c. — South Carolina and Georgia to Tennessee, 

 Alabama, .and Texas. The leaves and sepals vary much in size, certain mountain forms 

 having leaves closely resembling those of H. prob'Jicum. 



H. myrtif olium, Lam. More or less branching : leaves cordate-oblong, clasping, obtuse 

 (rarely acute), | to 1 inch long, 3 to 6 lines broad, those of the cyme usually much smaller: 

 flowers less than an inch broad, in compound cymes : sepals resembling the leaves, often 

 larger than the floral bracts, often reflexed : capsule as in the last, but coriaceous and 3- or 

 4-lobed or -angled. — Diet. iv. 180; Chois. 1. c. 547 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 161. H. glaucum, 

 Michx. Fl. ii. 78 ; Chois. 1. c. H. roswarinif olium, Chois. 1. c, not Lam. H. sessiliflorum, 

 Willd. in Spreng. Syst. iii. 346; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 166. Myriandra glauca, Spach, 1. c. — 

 From South Carolina to Florida and Alabama. 



b. Sepals small, very narrow : flowers small, axillary and terminal : leaves narrow and 

 much fascicled in the axils : shrubby and branching. 



H. fasciculatum, Lam. One to ten feet high : leaves very narrowly linear and revolute, 

 coriaceous, crowded, closely sessile, not tapering at base, 2 to 8 lines long : sepals resembling 

 the leaves : capsule 3-lobed, oblong-conical to ovate-conical, few-seeded, a line or two long. 



— Diet. iv. 160; Chois. 1. c. 554 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 160. H. nitidum, Lam. 1. c. H. as- 

 palathoides, Willd. Spec. iii. 1451 ; Pursh, 1. c. 376. H. fasciculatum, var. aspalathoides, 

 Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 672. J\[yriandra nitida, hrachyphylla, & galioides of Spach, 1. c. — Wet 

 pine barrens, North Carolina to Florida, Louisiana, and Eastern Texas. Very variable in 

 length of leaves, the rather striking short-leaved forms being the var. aspalathoides, although 

 tliey represent Lamarck's tyj)e material of the species. Certain large forms, four to ten 

 feet high, with unusually long leaves, appear quite distinct, but they are connected with the 

 shorter-leaved forms by a complete intergradation. 



H. galioides, Lam. Like the last, but leaves longer and broader, linear-lanceolate to oblanceo- 

 late, generally mucronate, alwaj^s tapering at base and subpetiolate, not so revolute, -J to 3 

 inches long, as many lines wide : sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, tapering at base. — Diet. iv. 

 161 ; Chois. 1. c. 550 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 159. //. axillare. Lam. 1. c , not Michx. H. fascicu- 

 latum, Michx. in Willd. Spec. iii. 1452, not Lam. H. amhiyuum. Ell. Sk. ii. 30 ; Torr. & Gray, 

 1. c. 162, 673. //. galioides, var. nmhiguum, Cliapm. Fl. 40. Myriandra Michanxii, Spach, 1. c. 



— Wet ground, Delaware to Florida, East Tennessee, and Louisiana. In general H. fasci- 

 culatum and //. galioides may be distinguished from each other easily, the leaves being of 

 entirely different types, but narrow-leaved forms of the latter species often become perplex- 

 ing except to one very familiar with the group. The leaves of this species range from these 

 very narrow forms to the broad ones which stand for the variety amhiguum. These large- 

 leaved plants are recorded as becoming as much as 12 feet high. These two species bear 

 much resemblance to H. lobocarpum, which has the leaves of both and the same deeply lobed 

 capsule. 



