HYPERICUM. HYPERICACE. 99 
B. Texana Seubert in Walp. Rep. i, 285. Glandular pubescent, 
branching from the base, 2-10 inches high: leaves oblanceolate, acute, ser- 
rate, 4-14 inches long, attenuate to a short petiole: flowers fascicled, 
shortly pedicelled : sepals carinate, 1‘ lines long exceeding the petals and 
stamens; capsule globose: seeds smooth and shining. Moist or very wet 
places along rivers and ditches, Columbia river to Nevada, California and 
- Texas. 
Orper XIV. HYPERICACE Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 77. 
Herbs or shrubs with opposite entire leaves, punctate 
with immersed pellucid resinous glands and often sprinkled 
with black glandular dots or lines, without stipules. Calyx of. 
4 or 5 persistent sepals imbricated in the bud. Petals as many, 
convolute in the bud, deciduous or withering, usually glandu- 
-lar-punctate. Pilaments mostly in 3 sets or bundles. Styles 
2-5, usually distinet or becoming so. Stigmas terminal. 
Ovary and capsule with 2-5 parietal placente, or 2-5-celled by 
their union in the axis. Seeds anatropous, with a somewhat 
erustaceous coat, filled by the straight cylindraceous embryo. 
Only one genus in our range. 
1 HYPERICUM L. Gen. n. 902. 
Herbs or shrubs with simple entire opposite leaves without sti- 
pules and yellow flowers in cymes. Sepals 5, rarely 4, similar. 
Petals as many, oblique. Stamens numerous, sometimes few, in 
3-5 clusters: filaments united at base into 3-8 phalanges or dis- 
tinct. Ovary l-celled with parietal placenta or 38-5-celled with 
placentze in the axis. Styles 3-5 distinct or united: stigma often 
capitate : capsule conical to globose. 
* Stamens numerous, distinct or united into sets: styles 3, long 
and distinct: capsule ovate, 3-celled, more or less glandular: tall Ber 
ennials with opposite leaves. 
H. prerroratum L. Much branched, !|-4 feet high: leaves linear to ob- 
long, obtuse, mostly tapering at base, 6-12 lines long, 1-5 wide: flowers 
_ numerous in ‘loose cymes, about an inch i in diameter: sepals narrowly lan- 
ceolate, very acute or acuminate: petals bright yellow, black dotted along 
the margin: capsule conical-ovate 2-3 lines long. Very common in fields 
and along roadsides. Introduced from Europe. 
He Scouleri Hook, FI. i,111. Simple or sparingly branched Above) piven 
often with numerous small branchlets from running rootstocks, 1-2 feet 
high: leayes thin, shorter than the internodes, about an inch long mostly ‘ 
obtuse, more or less clasping, usually black dotted along the margin on the 
under side: flowers 6-12 lines in diameter, in more or less panicled cymes : 
sepals oval or. oblong, obtuse, 2 lines long, or less: petals 6 lines long, 
obovate: stamens numerous in 3 fascicles, 3-celled. In wet meadows and 
by streams throughout the Pacific States and Territories, flowering in 
summer. ' 
* * Stamens 15-20, mostly in 3 clusters; styles 3 or 2, short and 
distinct, stigmas capitate : small slender annuals with small flowers: 
petals shorter than the sepals. 
H. anagalloides Cham. & Schlect. Linnea iii, 127. Procumbent, dif- 
fusely branching, often forming dense mats: stems 1-12 inches long: 
leaves oblong to broadly ovate, obtuse, 5-7 nerved at base, 2-6 lines long, 
almost as broad: flowers 3 or 4 lines in diameter, in few -flowered naked or 
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