ISi ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Petals bright yellow, tinged with red on the back, with only a few 

 black dots round the margin. Styles 3, shorter than the capsule. 

 Cajisule with each valve having numerous vitta? on the back. 



In boggy places. Found by Mr. T. R. Archer Briggs in August 

 last (18(33), in three situations near Plymouth, growing with 

 Osmunda regalis. Especially abundant by the banks of the stream 

 between Common and Fancy Woods. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Mr. J. G. Baker, Avho at once saw that this Ilypericum was 

 distinct from all the known British species, has kindly furnished 

 me with the following description, drawn up by him for tiie Report 

 of the Thirsk Botanical Club for 1863 :— 



" Rootstoek creeping widely. Stems 2 to 3 feet high, slender, 

 with 4 slightly-winged angles. Leaves oblong or oval, amplexieaul, 

 thickly studded with pellucid dots and with a network of pellucid 

 veins. Panicle loosely corymbose, the long lateral branches often 

 with only 2 or 3 flowers. Sepals always erect, lanceolate, acute or 

 bluntish, with pellucid veins and dots and sometimes (but not 

 always) with black dots on the back and along the edges. Petals 

 elliptical or obovate, as large as those of II. perforatum, tinged with 

 red on the outside, slightly dotted with black on the edges. Styles 

 about as long as the ovary, in the fully-expanded flowers half as 

 long as the capsules. 



"Differs from H. perforatum by its quadrangular stem, broader 

 leaves with network of pellucid veins, broader and blunter sepals, 

 and styles only half as long as capsule ; from H. dubium by its 

 closely-dotted leaves and erect sepals ; from II. quadranguluui 

 (tetrapterum) by its less robust and less decidedly winged stem, 

 more dotted leaves, larger petals, and differently shaped sepals ; 

 and from all three by the much fewer and more distantly placed 

 flowers of the panicle." 



On showing the plant to Mr. Hewett C. Watson, he recognized 

 it as the species found in the Azores, which he described under the 

 name of H. decipiens ; a plant, however, that had been previously 

 discovered in Spain by M. Boissier, and named by him II. bceticum. 

 Afterwards my attention was directed by Dr. Seeman to the figure 

 of H. undulatum, in Reichenbach's " First Century of Figures of 

 Exotic Plants ; " and I have no doubt that the plant there repre- 

 sented is the same as that from Devonshire. Tlie name boeticum 

 is, however, in general use, so that it appears unwise to discard it 

 for the doubtful one of undulatum, as some authorities entertain 

 suspicions that the two names belong to two distinct plants. 



The habit of the present species is intermediate between that of 

 H. tetrapterum and H. pulchrum, though it has nothing in common 



