HYPERICUM. 
H. linarifolium is a handsome plant of very rare occurrence in the 
south-west of England, lax in habit, and throwing up a few slender 
wiry stalks of some 8 inches, set at intervals with upstanding pairs of 
stiff and very narrow leaves, and ending in a wide head of particularly 
bright handsome flowers, rather like those of some glorified H. hum- 
fusum, arranged in a cluster at the top of some narrow-leaved spray 
of H. perforatum, especially fine and slender. 
H. lydium. See under H. hyssopifolium. 
H. lysimachioeides= H. callianthum, q.v. 
i. lythrifolium. See under H. hyssopifolium. 
H. Montbretit. See under H. Grisebachit. 
H. myrtilloeides—H. cuneatum, q.v. 
H. nanum hardly justifies its name, for it forms a round and tight 
little bush a foot high, its branches set with minute rounded leaves, 
and ending in close spires of nine or ten flowers. This is found in 
the sub-alpine cliffs of Lebanon, &c.; and there is a most lovely form 
called H. n. prostratum, on Hermon, which closely hugs the ground, 
as if it were Rhamnus pumilus or Prunus prostrata. 
H. neurocalycinum is a downy thing, but otherwise faithfully 
recalls H. confertum but that its leaves are tinier, and curled over at 
the edge, while the blossoms, in their clusters, are borne in a long broken 
sheaf. (Stony bushy places in the Alps of Lycaonia, &c.) : 
H. Nordmannit. See under H. Grisebachia. 
H. nummularium is a most beautiful little species that may be met 
with (but rarely) in stony damp places of the limestone ranges through- 
out the Pyrenees to the Maritime and Graian Alps. It is not a strong- 
stemmed grower, but inclined to be tired and lie down ; its shoots are 
from 4 to 12 inches long, and the shorter they are the more erect. 
They are set at intervals with pairs of small rownd fattish-looking 
leaves, pale underneath (and of a leathery russet later on), and marked 
all along their upper surface with a regular line of little dots, following ~ 
that of the margin ; these and their frail stems have a singular elegance 
and daintiness of their own already. But they are worthily crowned 
and completed in loveliness by the loose and radiant head of pure 
golden flower-stars. The species is one that can never be confounded 
with others, and should always be looked out for, alike in cliffs and 
in catalogues. 
H. olympicum is an erect or flopping treasure of rare beauty, its fine 
wiry stems being set with very fine narrow blue-grey leafage of oblong 
blunt dotted leaves, heart-shaped at the base, and varying in width. 
The woody root is generous with these stems, that are some 6 or 8 
inches high, and end in a bunch of four or five notably large and 
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