HYPERICUM. 
and not pitted with pellucid dots, while the flower-cluster is closer. 
(Olympus of Bithynia and the neighbourhood of Byzantium.) 
H. Burseri makes yet another imitation of H. Richeri. But here 
the leaves are set with glands, and green below, while there are no 
longitudinal stripes on the seed-capsule. It comes from the Pyrenees 
and has also the name of H. pyrenaicum. The group is interesting 
rather than of special grace or charm, being inclined to stolidity of port. 
H. callianthum, however, brings us more beauty from the sub- 
alpine slopes of Kurdistan. It is about a foot high, rich in narrow 
blue-grey foliage with black dottings and no inclination to curl down 
at the rims, while no branchlings proceed from their axils. The stem 
concludes in a graceful pyramidal shower of yellow stars, and the plant 
has had the alternative name of H. lysimachioeides. 
_ H. cardiophyllum is a small-flowered poor bush, of 4 feet, from Syria. 
H. cassium stands near H. bithynicum, but is taller and coarser. 
H. concinnum, from California, is a neat thing, standing erect to 
some 12 or 18 inches, the stems being set with pairs of sword-blade 
leaves, each nursing a bud in the axil, and ending in two or three 
flowers, rather large, erect and brilliant, on a stem set with a degree of 
leafage not by any means enough to dull the edge of their delight. 
H. confertum, from the shady mountain regions of Cappadocia, 
Anatolia, &c., has much the look and habit of H. repens, but is cov- 
ered with warty down all over, with triangular narrow leaves curled 
back along the edge, sitting tight to the shoots, which emit buds from 
the axils as well as barren branches. The other name of the plant 
has been H. satureiaefolium, and there is a variety with closer spires 
of blossom called H. stenobotrys. 
H. Coris brings us back to find one of the best-beloved jewels in 
the whole race, abounding at our own very doors in the limy way- 
side gutters of the Maritime Alps, where it forms spreading clouds of 
finest little stems set in finest blue-grey foliage, narrow as a heath’s, 
but expanded and delicate and cloudlike in effect, from which rise up 
and spray abroad, like shot stars of a rocket, sparkling ample flowers 
of pale clear gold, whose petals never fall from the perfectly unbranched 
spires on which their wide galaxy is displayed. This lovely thing 
makes even richer yet no less dainty masses in the rock-garden, and 
always gives pleasure whether in flower or not; but never more than 
when its elfin flames float glittering over the limestone road-rims by 
St. Martin Vésubie, amid the pearly orbs of Linum tenucfolium that 
once was L. salsoloeides. This species is a child of the warm Southern 
limestones, coming most shyly northward, though on the hot and 
non-calcareous rocks above Susa it may be seen. But in the main 
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