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differs in being nearly glabrous, in having the flowers a little smaller, 

 and the sepals more obtuse. 



Glabrous rupture wort. 



Frencli, Benouee fluette. German, hihles TausendJcorn. 



Culpepper tells us that this herb "hath not his name iu vaino; for it is found hy 

 experience to cure the ruptui-e, not only in children, but in elder persons, if the 

 disease be not too inveterate, by taking a dram of the powder of the dryed herb every 

 day in wmc for certain days together." 



SPECIES II.— HERN I ARIA CI LI AT A. J!"l>. 

 Pl.\te MCLXXII. 



Root stout. Stems numerous from the crown of the rqot, spreading, 

 suffrutcscent, rooting at the base, flexuous, irregularly branched; 

 branches often in tufts from the apex of the portion of stem which has 

 survived the -winter, and alternate on the shoots of the year, ascending, 

 distichous, diminishing in size irregularly towards the apex of the 

 stems. Leaves oblong-oval or roundish-oval, rather abruptly contracted 

 towards the base.' Stipules large, silvery white. Flowers subsessile in 

 axillary clusters. Calyx segments obtuse, glabrous or ciliated. Stigmas 

 divergent. Plant glabrous, with the branches clothed with minute 

 deflexed hairs on the ujiper side only ; leaves generally ciliated on the 

 margins. 



On dry banks and commons. Very rare. The Lizard Point, Corn- 

 wall, L'Ancresse Common and Port de fer, Guernsey. There are 

 specimens in ]\Ir. Watson's herbarium from Dr. W. Andrews, which 

 on the ticket are localised from Kerry, but as no notice is taken of this 

 station in the Cybele Hibernica, it is probable some mistake has been 

 made; these specimens have the straggling growth and elongated 

 internodes of cultivated examples, and have probably been inadvert- 

 ently mixed with plants collected in Kerry. 



England, [Ireland. ] Perennial. Spring to Autumn. 



A stouter plant than H. glabra, with the stems branched and inter- 

 lacing, so as to form large circular tufts ; in cultivation these tufts are 

 often a yard across, remaining green and growing during the winter 

 even in the neighbourhood of London; so that it is not merely the 

 milder atmosphere of Cornwall or Guernsey that allows the plant to be 

 an evergreen undershrub. Leaves y'^ to I inch long, usually much 

 broader than m H. glabra, and narrowed from about the middle or 

 more often fi-om the basal quarter. Stipules triangular and ciliated as 

 in II. glabra, but of a much purer white, showing very conspicuously 

 in the young l)i-anches. Lateral branches towards the apex of the 



