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7-branched. — Walls and gravelly banks; common. — Fl. July, 

 August. Perennial. 



*^^ Herbs : sepals frmged with glands : stamens 3, branched: 



styles 3 



10. H. linariifdlium (Narrow-leaved St. John's-wort). — Stem 

 erect, terete, 6 — 12 in. high; leaves linear, blunt, revolute ; sepals 

 lanceolate, acute, with glandular teeth and black glands below; 

 ^/^w<?;/i- about lo-branched. — Devon, Cornwall, and Jersey ; very 

 rare. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



11. H. pulchrum (Small Upright St. John's-wort). — A slender, 

 glabrous plant; i-/(?;;/ erect, round, 12 — 18 in. high ; /(?^zw cordate- 

 amplexicaul, with pellucid glands ; floiver-buds stained with red ; 

 sepals obtuse, fringed with sessile glands; petals fringed with 

 glands. — Heaths and woods ; common. — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



\2. H. hirsutum (Hairy St. John's-wort). — Stem erect, round, 

 hairy, about two feet high ; leaves slightly stalked, pubescent, with 

 pellucid glands ; sepals narrow, acute, fringed with stalked glands. 

 — Woods, especially on calcareous soil. — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



13. H. mo7itdnum (Mountain St. John's-wort). — A similar 

 plant, but glabrous, with sessile leaves^ with black glands on their 

 margins. — Limestone hills ; not common. — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



14. H. elbdes (Marsh St. John's-wort). — A shaggy plant; steins 

 creeping, ascending ; leaves roundish, densely clothed in shaggy 

 Ao\'<w, flowers few, pale yellow; sepals fringed with red- stalked 

 glands.^Spongy bogs ; common. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



Ord. XVn. Malvace^. — The Mallow Family 



A large and important family of herbaceous plants, shrubs and 

 trees, with scattered, stipulate leaves^ which are palmately veined 

 and lobed. The flowers are polysymmetric and generally con- 

 spicuous, and are in most cases furnished with an epicalyx or 

 invohicel of bracts ; sepals 5, more or less united at the base, 

 valvate in bud ; petals 5, twisted in bud ; stamens originally 5, but 

 much branched and carried up on a tube, so as to appear indefinite 

 and monadelphous ; carpels many in a whorl, generally united, 

 each I -seeded ; styles as many as the carpels, distinct or united; 

 fruit a regma. There are about a thousand species in the Order, 

 mostly natives of tropical regions, where they form a large pro- 

 portion of the vegetation, the number of species gradually 



