965 



Buch.' [Extracted from the Bibl. Univ. de Geneve, Oct. 1852, p. 

 161.] 



Mr. Babington's paper is continued from the April number, and 

 contains valuable remarks on certain species of Hypericum, Agrimo- 

 nia, and Matricaria. 



Hypericum. 



It will be recollected that a second species of that division of 

 Hypericum called Androssemum by some authors, has been intro- 

 duced into the British Flora, under the name of H. grandifolium, 

 Chois. Such is the case in Mr. Babington's ' Manual,' in which it is 

 recorded as " stated, doubtless erroneously, to grow in Arrau, Scot- 

 land." The species is a native of the Azores ; and it seems strange 

 that it should re-appear in Scotland, when absent from the climatally 

 intermediate countries. Bertolini, in his recently-published fasci- 

 culus, vol. viii. fasc. 3, includes the supposed Arran plant, indeed the 

 whole of the supposed species, Hypericum grandifolium of Beichen- 

 bach (Icon. Fl. Germ. vi. 70, t. 352), under the name of Hypericum 

 anglicum ; but, unfortunately, as it appears to us, quotes Curtis' figure 

 (Fl. Lond. i. t. 164), as representing his plant. Now, that figure 

 certainly represents, and with very considerable fidelity, the Hyperi- 

 cum Androsgemum of Linneus. Still, there is a larger, and, as Mr. 

 Babington thinks, a distinct, plant, first gathered by Dr. Balfour at 

 Glanmire, near Cork, in great abundance, and apparently wild : this 

 plant is supposed to be the H. anglicum of Bertolini. Amended cha- 

 racters of H. Androssemum, H. anglicum, and H. hircinum of Lin- 

 neus, an allied European species, are given as below : — 



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

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

 broad unequal, styles falling much short of the stamens, cap- 

 sules pulpy hUmt. 

 " H. Androsaemum, Linn. Sp. PI. 1102, et Auct. 



" 2. H. anglicum (Bert. }) ; stem shrubby 2-edged much branched, 

 pedicels 2-winged, leaves broadly cordate-ovate acuminate, 

 cymes few-flowered, sepals ovate-lanceolate unequal, styles 

 equalling or exceeding the stamens, capsules oblong acute. 

 " H. anglicum, Bert. Fl. Ital. viii. 310 ? 

 " H. Androsaemum, Eng. Bot. t. 1225. 



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