HYPERICUM. 
shoots that die down in winter, and are studded with narrow densely- 
fringed leaves (there is a yet hairier-foliaged variety, H. a. myrio- 
trichum). 
H. adpressum is a taller species, of a foot or more, making runners 
in the marshes of Massachusetts. 
H. amanum is also some 2 feet high or so, with ample foliage, and 
then a big stiff pyramid of blossom shining above the smooth and 
blue-grey foliage. (Northern Syria.) 
H., Apollinis breathes to the world in its name the enthusiasm with 
which it was able to animate the botanist who thought it worthy of 
no lesser owner than a god. It is a very beautiful plant, faithful to 
Apollo on the slopes of his mountains of Helikon and Parnassus, 
in the stony limestone region of the upper alps, where it repeats 
H. olympicum, but is half the size in all its parts, making a blue- 
grey mass of stems some 6 inches high at the most, often weak and 
declining, and often carrying only one lovely golden flower to each. 
H. “argenteum.” See H. tomentosum. 
H. armenum comes quite near to H. repens, but is woody at the 
base, more erect in the branch, with leaves not curled down along their 
edges, and with fewer flowers, or only one to the shoot. (From the 
high mountain regions of Armenia at about 8800 feet.) 
H. asperulum is a Persian, about 12 inches high, with black-spotted 
uncurled foliage, nibbled-looking at the edge, and roughish. Other- 
wise it is close to H. callianthum in habit and beauty of blossom. 
H. Athoum may be called to mind by a picture of H. fragile, from 
which however it differs in being wholly hairy—a twisting mass of fine 
unbranching stems, with rather larger and more scattered leaves. 
Its home is in the high clefts of Athos. 
H. atomarium is densely woolly-downy, with leaves about an inch 
and a half in length, and panicles of blossom some 3 or 4 inches or 
even a foot in height, the leaves being pointed-oblong, heart-shaped, 
and stem-embracing at the base. 
H. Aucheri stands near H. armenum, but is finer and frailer, only 
3 or 4 inches in stature, and very slender in the shoot, the bracts and 
the sepals being fringed. The sprays carry few flowers, or only one 
or two. (Mysia.) 
H. australe stands related to H. hyssopifolium, but more suggests 
a glorified and especially handsome version of H. hwmifusum, with 
longer, blunter, unpitted stem-embracing leaves. The flowers, rich 
and ample and often carried in similar sprays, have veins or flushings 
of redin their gold. (Algiers, North Africa, South France.) 
H. bithynicum is a copy of H. Richeri, but the leaves are blunter, 
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