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AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 141 
All the plants of this genus bear yellow 
flowers. HY. Androsemum, Tutsan, is a hand- 
- some plant, often found in gardens, but truly 
wild in hilly districts, with broadly ovate leaves 
which have a strong aromatic smell; the berry 
is purplish black, somewhat resembling a coffee 
berry. 7. calycinum is the large handsome 
flowered plant frequent in shrubberies, wild in 
the West of Ireland. In woods there is Z. 
hirsutum, the Hairy Species, about 2 feet high, 
with downy stem and leaves, numerous bright 
yellow flowers, and bracts and segments of the 
calyx fringed with black glands. The hand- 
somest of all, however, though a small plant, is 
the Upright St. John’s-wort, 7. pulchrum, well 
named “beautiful,” the smooth heart-shaped 
leaves contrasting so well with the rich golden 
yellow flowers tipt with red in the bud, and 
having scarlet anthers. 
There are several foreign shrubby species 
cultivated in gardens, where they are a pleasing 
ornament. 
In many directions there will now be noticed 
plants bearing loose clusters of pale pink 
flowers on stems varying from 6 inches to 5 
feet in height. These are several kinds of 
