70 HYPERICIXEtf. [HYPEKKTM. 



6. H. pul'chrum, L. ; glabrous, stems erect slender terete branched 

 above, leaves cordate very obtuse, upper oblong, all with pellucid glands, 

 sepals small oblong. 



Dry copses, heaths, and commons ; ascending to 2,200 ft. in the Highlands ; 

 tt. June-July. Very elegant. Steins 1-2 ft, flexuous. Cymes panicled, 

 many-flowered. Leaves <j in. Flower -% in. diam. Petals twice as long 

 as the sepals, yellow, tinged with red, margins with black glands. Ant/ rx 

 red. Stylet short. DlSTRlB. Europe (Arctic), eastwards to Lithuania and 

 Turkey. 



7. H. hirsutum, L. ; finely pubescent, stem erect terete subsimple, 

 leaves very shortly petioled ovate or oblong obtuse with pellucid glands, 

 sepals linear-oblong subacute. 



Copses, &c. ; ascends to 1,300 ft. in Yorkshire ; very rare in Ireland ; fl. July- 

 Aug. -Rather stout, 1-3 ft., leafy ; pubescence curly. Leaves 1-2 in., with- 

 out marginal glands. Cymes panicled. Floirerg j| in. diam., pale yellow. 

 Petals twice as long as the sepals. DISTRIB. Europe, Siberia, W. Asia. 



8. H. montanum, L. ; almost glabrous, stem ascending terete, leaves 

 sessile oblong obtuse, upper cordate-ovate or linear-oblong puberulous 

 beneath, margin with black glands, sepals lanceolate acute. 



Copses in gravelly or chalky soil, England and N.E. of Ireland ; not ascend- 

 ing above 600 ft.; fl. July-Aug. Stem 1-2 ft. rigid, very slender, often 

 leafless above. Leaves 1-2 in., membranous, t'ynies few and dense-flowered ; 

 bracts glandular, toothed. F loiters -$ in. diam., pale yellow. 7V/,//. 

 eglandular or nearly so, twice as long as the sepals. DISTRIB. Europe to 

 the Caucasus, N. Africa. 



SKCTION 3. Sepals nearly equal. Petals not oblique, persistent. Sta- 

 mens 15, cohering | way up in 3 stalked bundles which alternate with 

 2-fid hypogyuous scales. Ovary incompletely 3-celled. 



9. H. elo'des, L, ; villous, leaves orbicular or oblong-cordate. 



Bogs, ditches, and wet moors, S. of England, W. off Scotland, all Ireland ; fl. 

 July-Aug. Stems 3-18 in., many, creeping, terete. Leave* j-1 in., -amplcx- 

 icaul, pellucid glands small. Cymes irregular, often spuriously axillary, 

 3-chotomous ; bracts small, deltoid, gland-serrated. Flowers in. diam., 

 pale-yellow. %///.? glabrous, oblong, obtuse, with red glandular serratures. 

 DISTRIB. W. Europe, from Holland to Spain and Austr.a ; Azores. 



ORDER XVII. 



. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, hairs often stellate. Leaves alternate, 3- or more- 

 nerved at the base; stipules dcvMu<ms. Inflorescciice various; bracteoles 

 3-9, rarely 0, free, or connate and forming an involucel. Calyx 5-lobed 

 valvate in bud. Petals 5, adnate at the base to the staminal column, 

 twisted in bud, often oblique. Stamens many, filaments combined into a 

 tube variously split at the top into antheriferous lobes ; anthers rcnitmn 

 annular linear or twisted, 1 -celled, bursting outwards. Disk small, oftei 

 produced upwards between the carpels. Carpels many, whorled, free o 

 connate ; styles free or united, stigmatose on the inner face, or top ; ovules 



