HYPERICUM. 
H. ericoeides, again, from the limestone or gypsum cliffs of Southern 
Spain, is a tighter version of H. Coris, making a closer tuft with twist- 
ing ascendent stems that are bare below but higher up quite densely 
packed with whorls of four needle-narrow leaves, minute and hoary, 
with curled-down edges—the whole neat tuft of 6-inch stems having 
thus the look of a heath’s packed shoots, but that they end in an oval 
loose head of golden stars. 
H. fragile provokes high praise from many, but by me is not 
held to compete at all with H. reptans and H.Coris. It is, none the less, 
a beautiful species, lax and flopping, with very leafy branches crowded 
with little overlapping grey-green foliage of four-ranked effect all 
along the multitude of stems of some 5 inches or so, emitted by the 
fat woody root-stock ; and each ending in two or three ample and fluffy 
flowers of clear pale gold, that suffer in effect (though so much larger) 
from not having the specially fine filmy leafage of H. Coris to set them 
off. H. fragile comes from the high rocks of Euboea, and in cultiva- 
tion is as easily grown and multiplied as the rest. 
H. galioeides is a slender taller branching plant of Atari with 
quite fine foliage, and quite small flowers in abundant racemes from 
the axils as well as the tips of the shoots. 
H. gramineum grows wirily erect, sometimes to rather more than 
a foot in height, with heart-based curled-edged leaves, and blooms 
carried on erect stems in a loose wide head. (North America.) 
H. Grisebachit is very near H. Richeri, about half a foot high, and 
densely leafy with litle huddled leaves, in which it differs from the 
ampler-leaved species in the group—HH. Richeri, bithynicum, cassium, 
Monibretui, Nordmannii, barbatum, fimbriatum, &c.; while from H. 
Richeri it specially differs in having shorter sepals with much shorter 
fringes. (Scardus.) 
H. Helianthemum adorns the desert places of Syria with no great 
éclat, being about 6 inches high, with narrow foliage and small 
stars. 
H. heterophyllum is an obscure Persian species akin to H. linari- 
folium, and about a foot high, with fat, sharp, and very narrow leaves, 
and petals not equalling the sepals. 
H. hirtellum also inhabits Persia and Babylonia. It is rough with 
short hairs, and has dense tight spikes of blossom. 
H. humifusum is a pretty native, like a frail Creeping-jenny, and 
superior, as it grows perennially, to the true H. japonicum, of which 
it isa much finer version, while H. australe in turn is a glorified form of 
this. 
H. hyssopifolium is a precious plant of wide range and variation. 
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