hypericinejE. (st, john's-woet family.) 171 



terminal, few-flowered; flowers .03 to .04 broad — Summer and 

 autumn — Moist places ^ coast and coast range to 1000 m., Amanus, 

 Akherdagh, and northward. Its specific name is derived from the goat- 

 like odor which it emits. 



2. H. cardiophylluin, Boiss. 5 ^ ^^ ^-^^ glabrous. Leaves 

 .02 to .03 long, oxate, obtuse, from a heart-shaped lase, sparingly pellucid- 

 dotted. Cymes terminal, short-peduncled, crowded into a dense, 

 many-flowered corymb — June — Calcareous rocks ; Antioch to Aleppo, 

 Aintab, and north-eastward. 



3. H. r«pe§tre, Jaub. et Sp. 5 -^ *^ -^^ glabrous. Leaves 

 .01 to .03 long, ovate to elliptical or oblong from 2^ rounded or tapering 

 iase, obtuse or retuse, pellucid-dotted above, glaucous beneath. Cymes 

 terminal, 9-15-flowered, short-peduncled — Summer — Besherri. 



4. H. naiiiiin, Poir. ^ -3 to .3, forming hemis])herical clumps 

 hanging from vertical rocks, glabrous. Leaves .01 to .015 long, round 

 to ovate, sparingly pellucid-dotted. Cymes terminal, 3-9-flowered, 

 very short-peduncled — April to July — Subalpine regions of Lebanon 

 and Antilebanon, and mountains above Nablus. 



Yar. pro§tratuiu, Boiss. Appressed to rocks. Leaves round- 

 ovate to elliptical, sometimes acutish, .005 to .006 long ; cymes 2-5- 

 flowered — Antilebanon. 



5. H. §erpyllifoliuiii, Lam, ^ .8 to 1, glabrous ; branches 

 wand-lihe. Leaves .005 to .008 long, short-petioled, elliptical, glaucous 

 and sparingly dotted below. Cymes crowded at top of upper l)ranche»^ 

 forming a dense, terminal corymb — May to August — Bushy hillsides ; 



coast and lower mountains. 



6. H. ciiiieatum, Poir. ^ .2 to A, glabrous ; stems numerous, 

 red. Leaves .01 to .02 long cuneate at hise, short-petioled, ellip>tical to 

 oiovate, entire or somewhat repand, glaucous beneath, sparingly black- 

 dotted. Flowers in short, leafy racemes — April to July — Fissures of 

 rocks ; Lebanon and Amanus, to a height of 2000 m. and northward. 



Var. fragile, Post. Stems brittle, .1 long, tufted. Leaves mi- 

 nute. Racemes dense. 



Var. pallidum, Post. Leaves glaucous on both sides, usually 

 larger than in type. 



7. H. sca1>ruiii, L. 11 A to .5, glabrous, many-stemmed ; 

 stems glandular-roughened, red, wand-like. Leaves sessile, oUong-linear, 

 obtuse, with large pellucid dots. Cymes crowded into a de?ise com- 

 pound corymb — May to August — Rocky hills ; mountains of Galilee 

 to Lebanon, Antilebanon, Amanus, Aintab, Akherdagh, and north- 

 ward. 



8. H. laeve, Boiss. et Haussk. 21 A to .5, glabrous ; stems 

 numerous, nearly simple, red. Leaves sessile, with strongly convolute 

 margins, linear, obtuse, pellucid-dotted. Cymes crowded into a short, 

 dense, corymbose panicle — Summer — Calcareous hills; Aintab and 

 northward, and eastward. 



Var. rubruni, Boiss. Petals more or less deep red — With 

 type. 



