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soil. Rather rare, and not extending North of Cumberland and 



Durham. 



England. Perennial. Summer. 



Stem stiff and wiry, 1^ to 3^ feet high, with the leaves distant 

 in the upper part and I'emote on the panicle. Leaves 1^ to 3 inches 

 long. Bracts much narrower than the uppermost pair of leaves, 

 and often fringed with stalked glands like the sepals. Flowers in 

 cymose fascicles, frequently forming a single terminal corymb ; but 

 in large specimens there are branches at some distance lower down, 

 so that the form of inflorescence becomes distinctly paniculate. 

 Flowers pale yellow, | to f inch across. Leaves very thin, delicate 

 green, Avith black marginal dots. Plant glabrous, except the 

 leaves, which are generally roughened with small prominent points 

 beneath. 



This species may be easily recognized by its smooth tender 

 green leaves rather crowded in the middle of the stem, but very 

 distant in the iipper half. The absence of hairs is quite sufficient 

 to distinguish it from H. hirsutum, which has, nevertheless, 

 sometimes been mistaken for it. 



Ilountain St. John's Wort. 



F)-ench, Millepertuis de Montagne. German, Berg Harthen. 



Section III.— ELODES. Spach. 



Calyx 5-partite, with the sepals nearly equal. Petals persistent, 

 withering. Stamens persistent, in 3 bundles, which alternate with 

 small bilid hypogynous scales. Filaments adhering at the base by 

 a considerable portion of their length. Ovary 3-celled, with the 

 placentae parietal, not contiguous. Styles 3. Capsule 3-valved. 



A section which rather deserves to be considered as a sub-genus, 

 and contains only a single species. 



SPECI ES XIV.— HYPERICUM ELODES. Linn. 

 Plate CCLXXVI. 



Elddes palustris, SpacL Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Ilyp. Tab. CCCXLII. 



Fig. 5182. 



Rootstock slender, fleshy, creeping. Stem weak, procumbent 

 or ascending, creeping at the base (to which portion the branching- 

 is generally confined), round, hairy. Leaves roundish or oval, 

 cordate and semi-amplexicaul at the base, more or less thickly 

 clothed with woolly hairs, and closely sprinkled with small pellucid 

 dots. Flowers few, in a terminal irregularly dichotomous cyme. 



