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HYP 



THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



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of the country near Constantinople. To propagate it, part 

 the roots in October. 



6. Hypericum Pyramidatum ; Pyramidal St. John's Wort. 

 Flowers subpanicled ; stem slightly four-cornered, herbaceous, 

 branched ; calices ovate, acute. It flowers in July and August. 

 Native country unknown. 



7. Hypericum Alterniflorum ; Alternate-leaved St. John's 

 Wort. Flowers axillary, solitary ; leaves lanceolate, alter- 

 nate; stem shrubby. Native of the East Indies. 



8. Hypericura Syriacum; Syrian St. John's Wort. Cali- 

 ces leafy ; stem herbaceous ; leaves alternate, ovate, acute. 

 Stem about -a foot high ; flowers panicled on the branches, 

 terminating; petals ovate, concave, coriaceous. Native of 

 dry places in the Syrian desert. 



9. Hypericum Guineense; Guinea St. John's Wort. Flow- 

 ers subumbelled ; stem shrubby ; branches round ; leaves 

 ovate, acute ; bark ash-coloured. Native of Guinea. 



10. Hypericum Petiolatum. Stem arboreous ; leaves ovate. 

 Panicle terminating, brachiate, the length of the leaf; petals 

 obovate, straighter on one side, the length of the calix. It 

 has the appearance of Bay, and abounds with a saffron- 

 coloured juice. Native of New Granada. 



11. Hypericum Patulum. Flowers solitary, terminating; 

 stem frutescent, lax ; leaves ovate, rolled back at the edge. 

 Corolla yellow, reddish underneath. Native of Japan. 



12. Hypericum Ascyron. Stem four-cornered, herbaceous, 

 erect, simple ; leaves even, quite entire. Flowers terminating; 

 calix green; corolla pale yellow ; petals an inch long. Found 

 upon the Pyrenees ; also in Siberia and Canada. Linneus 

 says the leaves are acute. 



** With three Styles. 



13. Hypericum Androsaemum ; Common Tutsan. Fruits 

 berried; stem shrubby, ancipital. Stem suffruticose or under- 

 shrubby, two feet high, of a reddish colour, and smooth ; 

 branches spreading; leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, entire, 

 smooth, dark green, glaucous on the under side, netted with 

 numerous projecting veins and nerves, which become ferru- 

 ginous through age ; flowers small for the size of the plant, 

 disposed in a cyme ; peduncles round, smooth, usually two 

 or three flowered, but sometimes one-flowered. The leaves, 

 says Hill, are an excellent cure for fresh wounds : scarcely 

 any thing is equal to them. Those that are young and ten- 

 der at the tops of the branches, should be chosen. They 

 are to be bound upon the wound, and will soon stop the 

 bleeding. Many other plants are celebrated for this virtue, 

 but the effects of this are so very singular and efficacious, 

 that no other can be compared with it for healing fresh 

 wounds. From this the French call it La Toute Saine; and 

 the English, Tutsan: it is also called Park-leaves, from 

 being frequently found in parks. It flowers from July to 

 September. Native of woods and moist hedges in the 

 southern parts of Europe and Britain : it is sometimes found 

 about Hampstead and Highgate ; on Bacher-heath and 

 Harefield, Middlesex; in the Oak-of-Honour-wood, near 

 Peckham Rye, and in several parts of Norwood. In many 

 parts of England it is more common ; as, in the Duke o'f 

 Bridgewater's woods at Askeridge, and near Berkhampstead, 

 Hertfordshire; in lanes at the foot of Malvern Hill, Worces- 

 tershire ; and between Worcester and Tcwkesbury ; in Shot- 

 over plantations ; Stokenchurch and Nettlebe'd "woods, Ox- 

 fordshire ; near Pengwarry in Cornwall ; in rocky woods in 

 Westmoreland; at King's Cliff in Northamptonshire; and in 

 Scotland in the woods at Inverary ; and at Loch Ransa in 

 the isle of Arran. It is not frequent in gardens, but in planta- 

 tions it is as ornamental as many others. It may be increased 

 by parting the roots, and loves shade, with a strong soil. 



14. Hypericum Olympicum ; Olympian St. John's Wort. 

 Calices acute ; stamina shorter than the corolla ; stem 

 shrubby. It rises with many upright woody stalks about a 

 foot high: leaves small, lanceolate, sessile, opposite; flowers 

 terminating, three or four together; petals oblong, bright 

 yellow. Native of the Levant. It is propagated by part- 

 ing the roots in September, because the seeds seldom ripen 

 in this country. It will live in the open air, in a warm situa- 

 tion and dry soil : but it will be proper to keep a plant or 

 two in pots, to be sheltered under a frame in winter, to pro- 

 tect them from severe frost. If this be increased by seeds, 

 they should be sown soon after they are ripe, in pots filled 

 with lijvht earth, and placed under a frame in winter; in 

 spring the plants will appear, and when they are fit to re- 

 move, may be planted in a warm border, or in pots, and 

 treated as the old plants. 



15. Hypericum Foliosum ; Shining St. John's Wort. 

 Stamina the length of the petals; calices lanceolate, acute; 

 leaves oval-oblong, sessile, smooth : it flowers in August. 

 Native of the Azores. 



16. Hypericum Floribundum ; Many-flowered St. John's 

 Wort. Calices ovate, acute, subciliate; stamina shorter than 

 the corolla; leaves lanceolate- elliptic, stem shrubby. It 

 flowers in August, and is a native of Madeira. 



17. Hypericum Arborescens ; Tree St. John's Wort. Co- 

 rollas and calices even, smooth; leaves elliptic; racemes 

 brachiate ; stem arborescent. Branches quadrangular at the 

 top, smooth, with a purplish bark ; peduncles compressed. 

 Native of the East Indies. 



18. Hypericum Gramineum; Grass-leaved St. John's Wort. 

 Stem herbaceous, four-cornered, dichotomous; leaves oblong- 

 parabolic, or ovate-lanceolate. Peduncles terminating, and 

 at the divisions filiform, solitary, one-flowered, an inch long. 

 Native of New Caledonia, in the South Seas. 



19. Hypericum Chinense; Chinese St. John's Wort. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, two-flowered; leaves ovate-lanceolate, quite 

 entire. This is a small tree or shrub, with alternate 

 branches ; styles broadish ; germen three-cornered. Im- 

 ported from China. 



20. Hypericum Cochin-ehinense; Cochin-chinese St. John's 

 Wort. Peduncles axillary, five-flowered or thereabouts ; 

 leaves subpetioled, very close together ; stem arboreous. 

 This is a middle-sized tree, about sixteen feet high, with 

 ascending branches, divided into many dusky-red branchlets; 

 petals scarlet, ovate, oblong, entire, spreading. The wood of 

 this tree is red, heavy, hard, and tough, and is used for mak- 

 ing oars and yards of vessels. The juice of the flowers dyes 

 of a golden colour. Native of the woods of Cochin-china. 



21. Hypericum Petiolatum. Leaves ovate, petioled, quite 

 entire, totnentose underneath ; stem shrubby, four-cornered, 

 compressed; stipules none; corymb brachiate; sets of SM- 

 mina oblong, very handsome. This and the tenth species 

 are inadvertently named alike. Native of Brazil. 



22. Hypericum Canariense; Canary St. John's Wort. 

 Calices blunt ; stamina shorter than the corolla ; stem 

 shrubby. It rises six or seven feet high, dividing into 

 branches at top; leaves oblong, set by pairs close to tin: 

 branches, with a strong odour, but less powerful than that of 

 the twenty-fourth species, the flowers of which, those of this 

 plant very much resemble. It flowers from July to September. 

 Native of the Canary Islands. This, with the two following 

 species, are propagated by suckers taken off in March, just 

 before they begin to shoot, and planted in a light dry soil ; or 

 by cuttings, planted at the same season; or by seeds sown in 

 autumn as soon as they are ripe: but as they multiply fast 

 by suckers, the other methods are seldom used. 



