362 Mr. C. C. Babington on British Plants. 



1. H. Jndroscemum (Linn.); stem shrubby compressed, leaves 

 broadly subcordate-ovate blunt, cymes few-flowered, sepals broad 

 unequal, styles falliny much short of the stamens, capsules pulpy 

 blunt. 



H. Androssemum, Idnn. Sp. PL 1102, et Auct. 



This plant is usually only slightly branched in its upper part. 

 There is but little trace of a wing upon its stem or even upon its 

 pedicels. The sepals and petals are of about equal length, and 

 the former are afterwards much enlarged, so as greatly to exceed 

 the very blunt globose capsule. 



2. //. anglicum (Bert. ?) ; stem shmbby 2-edged much branched, pe- 

 dicels 2-winged, leaves broadly cordate-ovate-&c\\mm&ic, cymes 

 few-flowered, sepals ovate-lanceolate unequal, styles equalling or 

 exceeding the stamens, capsules oblong acute. 



H. anghcum, Bert. Fl. Ital. viii. 310? 

 H. Androssemum, Eng. Bot. t. 1225. 



Stem terete with two slight wings, erect, much and repeatedly 

 branched, 3-4 feet high, reddish ; branches opposite, terete be- 

 low, 2-winged above. Leaves alternately opposite, large, sessile, 

 broadly cordate-ovate-acuminate, acute, entire, with many fine 

 pellucid net-veins, in the centre of each mesh of which near to 

 the edge of the leaf there is a pellucid puncture, these punctures 

 becoming more and more rare as the midrib is approached, green 

 on both sides; ribs prominent and reddish beneath. Cymes 

 terminating the stem and branches, small, once or twice trira- 

 diate, having sometimes below them one or two simple axillary 

 solitary peduncles. Peduncles and pedicels 2-winged, jointed at 

 some distance below the flower, thickened above the joining, 

 at which there are two small deciduous bracts. Sepals unequal, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, reflexed, not enlarged on the fruit, deci- 

 duous (?), with a few pellucid punctures, the larger ones 3 lines 

 long and 1 line broad. Petals yellow, reddish externally, about 

 three times the length of the sepals (I cannot satisfactorily de- 

 termine the exact proportion in the dry specimens before me), 

 broad, rounded at the end, shortly clawed, many-veined. Fila- 

 ments exceeding the corolla. Styles about equalling the stamens. 

 Capsules oblong, narrowed at both ends, with a long point 

 formed of the persistent base of the styles. Mature capsules I 

 have not seen. 



Flowering in August. " In great quantity, apparently wild, 

 on the banks of the Glanmire river near Cork." Dr. Balfour. 



Mv friend Mr. J. Ball gave to me an imperfect specimen of an 

 Hypericum gathered by him in the county of Dublin in 1837, 

 which may prove to be H. anglicum, for it more resembles that 



