HYPERICUM. 
dots round by their rim, such dots of darkness also to be de- 
tected on the sunshine of the flower. It is a species of the South, and 
may be found occasionally in the higher alpine turf, most rare of all in 
Switzerland, but not strange to the Col de Lautaret. 
H. rubrum is the variety rubrum of H. laeve, and a strange beautiful 
break in the family, springing from soil of blood and iron in Syria, 
where empires have bled to produce this fine head of crimsoned flowers 
in place of the Hypericum’s otherwise unvarying gold. 
H. rumelicum is in the same line, but only about 6 inches high, 
with stiffly-fringed calyx and narrow leaves rolled down along the 
edges. (From the Macedonian mountains.) 
H. rupestre has none of the merit that the name ought to confer. 
It is an overweening bush near H. cardiophyllum, but with looser heads 
of flower. (From the cliffs of Cilicia.) 
H. satureiaefolium=H. confertum, q.v. 
H. scabrellum springs by the source of Cydnus, and in many another 
damp mountainy place of Asia Minor—a much more graceful species 
than H. atomarium, with fine stems of 10 inches or so, having blunted 
rough leaves almost heart-shaped at their base, and open loose spikes 
of blossom. The stem below the leaves is roughish too. 
H. scabrum has no particular merit, being an unpolished erect herb 
of the Levant. 
H. serpyllifolium is a bush of some 3 to 6 feet, with the branches 
packed with whorls of little narrow foliage like that of a Thyme, &c., 
and ending in dense spikes of blossom. (rom the ruins of Seleucia.) 
H. sinaicum, on the damp rocks of Arabia the stony, is a more 
graceful and unbranching counterpart of H. tomentosum, which goes 
no further East than Sardinia. 
H. Spruneri. Comes under H. Grisebachii. 
H. stenobotrys. See under H. confertum. 
H. thymbraefolium is a tiny-flowered species which is otherwise in 
the way of H. hyssopifolium, It is found about Kharput in the sub- 
alpine regions of Anatolia, and has unbranching little stems of 
6 inches set with red glands. 
H. thymopsis is still smaller, being only 3 or 4 inches high, with a 
great number of fine stems set with narrow cylindric leaves, rolled 
over at the edges, and with buds in their axils. (Higher slopes of 
Antitaurus.) 
H. tomentosum is a woody plant with many flopping stalks clothed 
in oval foliage that in its turn is clothed with fluffy down or wool. It 
is not a common species, being found here and there in the warmer 
parts of South and Central Spain; with two varieties, H. t. dissiti- 
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