PHYSICAL and LITERARY. 7 
{mall tranfparent veins extending 
from it towards the edges, and the 
edges are intire. 
The flowers are of a pale red colour; 
they ftand in clufters on the top of 
the ftalk and branches, and fome- 
times in» pairs at the arm-pits of 
the leaves.” 
This plant grows in wet ground, and 
flowers in Augutt. : 
OBSERVATION. The three chives only 
in each bundle, and the three oval-fhap’d 
bodies on the feat of the flower, together 
with the feat to’ which the feeds adhere, 
diftinguifh this plant from the Aypericums; 
and, I think, not only make it a different 
genus, but likeways makes an order 
which Linnzvs has not: 
; . ; ART. 
