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VIII. Some Re?narks on the Synonyms and native Country of 

 Hypericum calycinum. By J. E. Smithy M.D., F.R.S., and 

 P.L.S. 



Read March 21, 1809. 



Towards the end of last August I received from Mr. Hincks, 

 Secretary to the Cork Institntion, a specimen of Hypericum caly- 

 cinu7n, gathered, by Mr. Drummond, Curator of the botanic 

 garden near that city, about three miles from Cork in the road 

 to Bandon, where these gentlemen assure me the plant in ques- 

 tion grows wild in great abundance. This communication led 

 me to investigate the reputed places of growth of this species, 

 as well as of the Hypericum Ascyron, with which Linnaeus and 

 some other botanists have confounded it. This confusion was 

 first publicly corrected in the Hortus Kewensis, v. 3. 103, where 

 the synonyms of the calycinum are rightly given. Two years af- 

 terwards Mr. Curtis published this plant in his Magazine, v. 5. 

 t. 146, judiciously adopting the corrections in the Hortus Kew- 

 ensis, but relapsing into an old error in quoting Bauhin's Ascy- 

 rum magnoflore. The occurrence of this quotation chietly excited 

 in my mind a desire to investigate the whole subject; for I must 

 honestly confess that, as Bauhin's plant was gathered by Burser 

 on the Pyrenean mountains, I should have been glad to have 

 found it the same with our Irish one, as confirming the wildness 

 of the latter. My first object therefore was to determine the plant 



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