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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



HYP 



39. Hypericum Humifusum ; Trailing St. John's Wort. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary; stems ancipital, prostrate, filiform; 

 leaves smooth. Root perennial, yellow, fibrous ; stems nu- 

 merous, about eighteen inches in length, reddish, branched 

 at top; peduncles axillary and terminating, solitary, or some- 

 times in pairs. It is the least of our wild Hyperica, scarcely 

 inferior to any in beauty and delicacy, and is not unfreqnent 

 in gravelly pastures, in fields that have long lain unfilled, on 

 heaths, especially where the soil is moist and clayey, and 

 sometimes in woods ; flowering from June to August. 



40. Hypericum Crispum ; Curled-leaved St. John's Wort. 

 Stem round ; leaves sessile, lanceolate, waved and toothed at 

 the base. Native of Calabria, Sicily, and Greece. 



41. Hypericum Linarifolium ; Toadflax-leaved St. John's 

 Wort. Calices serrate-glandular; stem round, upright; 

 leaves linear, blunt, smooth. Branches nearly as high as 

 the stem; corollas small, a little longer than the ealix. 

 Found on the heaths near Bayonne and in Navarre. 



42. Hypericum Montanum; Mountain St. John's Wort. 

 Calices acute, serrate-glandular; stem round, upright; leaves 

 oblong, smooth, embracing, sharpish; petals sometimes dot- 

 ted towards the top. Native of many parts of Europe, in 

 woods and thickets, in high situations. Found in Britain, 

 near Croydon in Surry ; in Charlton-wood, Kent; on the 

 Bath-hills near Bungay, in Suffolk; near Stokenchurch, Hen- 

 ley, and Maple-Durham, in Oxfordshire; near Pershore 

 and Bredon-hill in Worcestershire; in many parts of the 

 west of England ; in the isle of Anglesea, North Wales ; 

 near Ingleton, and Furness Fells, in the north ; and in some 

 parts of Scotland. 



43. Hypericum Barbatum; Bearded-flowered St. John's 

 Wort. Calices and petals ciliate and dotted ; leaves dotted. 

 Root perennial; stem upright, simple, smooth, round, about 

 a foot high, tinged with purple; flowers terminating, few, 

 without smell. Native of Austria, where it was found in pas- 

 tures by wood-sides, flowering in June, and perfecting seeds 

 in July and August. 



44. Hypericum Glandulosum ; Glandulous St. Johns Wort. 

 Calices serrulate-glandular ; leaves lanceolate, glandular at 

 the edge; stem shrubby. Branches obscurely four-cornered, 

 smooth, dichotomous ; corolla pale yellow with brown dots. 

 It flowers from May to August. Native of Madeira. 



45. Hypericum Hirsutmn ; Hairy St. John's Wort. Cali- 

 ces serrate-glandular; stem round, upright; leaves ovate, 

 subpubescent. Root perennial, fibrous ; flowers terminating 

 in an oblong panicle forming a kind of spike. It differs from 

 the common St. John's Wort in being taller, having the stem 

 perfectly round and hoary, and the edge of flie calix beset 

 with black glands. Linneus says, that the flowers close in the 

 night. It flowers from June to August; and is oftenest found 

 in woods and coppices, though frequently found in hedges. 



46. Hypericum Tomentosum; Woolly St. John's Wort. 

 Calices serrate-glandular; leaves half stem-clasping, flexuose, 

 tomentose; stems prostrate. It flowers from July to Septem- 

 ber. Native of the south of Europe. 



47. Hypericum Perfoliatum ; Perfoliate St. John's Wort. 

 Stem guhancipital ; leaves stem-clasping, ovate ; cyme with 

 sessile flowers. It flowers in May and June. Native of Italy. 



48. Hvpericum Elodes ; Marsh St. John's Wort, or St. 

 Peter's Wort. Stem round, creeping, villose; leaves villose, 

 roundish. Flowering branches ascending, five or six inches 

 high ; tha panicle terminating, at first becomes lateral by the 

 protrusion of the stem beyond it, and is dichotomous, rarely 

 producing mure than from five to ten flowers, which appear 

 in July and August, and seldom expand except in bright 

 sunshine; petals yellow or reddish yellow, twisted spirally, 



or sometimes merely folded up. It has been observed in the 

 northern parts of France, but is most common in England, 

 where it is found in bogs; as on Hayes common in Kent, 

 Dersingham Moor near Lynn, and other Norfolk bogs, the 

 Gamlingay bogs in Cambridgeshire, on Birmingham heath, 

 and in some parts of Cornwall. 



49. Hypericum Pulchrum; Elegant St. John's Wort. 

 Caliees serrate-glafldular ; stem round; leaves stem-clasping, 

 cordate, smooth. The whole plant is smooth ; flowering 

 branches or peduncles round, slender, axillary, wit-h from 

 one to three flowers at top ; petals oblong-ovate, slightly 

 striated, on the under side tinged with bright orange, slightly 

 serrated, and edged with the same dark-coloured glands. 

 Native of most parts of Europe, in woods, on heath-banks, 

 and in hedges, especially in a clayey soil; flowering in June 

 and July. It is a hardy plant. 



50. Hypericum Nummularium ; Moneywort-leaved St. 

 John's Wort. Calices serrate-glandular; leaves cordate-orbi- 

 cular, smooth. Stems two or three, round, simple, five or 

 six inches long, prostrate; flowers three or five, terminating, 

 large. It is a very small plant; the leaves differ from those 

 of all the other species, in being thick and fleshy, though 

 very hard, and uniform throughout. Native of Dauphiny, 

 near the Grand Chartreuse. 



51. Hypericum Japoniciim ; Japanese St. John's Wort. 

 Leaves sessile, ovate, entire; stem herbaceous, four-cornered, 

 decumbent at the base. Root with capillary fibres ; flowers 

 small, peduncled, solitary, and terminating in the axils of the 

 panicle; peduncles capillary, one-flowered, upright. Native 

 of Japan, where it is found flowering in June. 



52. Hypericum Erectum; Upright St. John's Wort. Leaves 

 stem-clasping, lanceolate, acute; stem round, herbaceous. 

 Flowers terminating, about three together; peduncles and 

 pedicels filiform, like the stem, leafy, fastigiate; corolla 

 scarcely longer than the stamina. Native of the mountains 

 of Japan, flowering in August. 



53. Hypericum Coris ; Heath-leaved St. John's Wort. Ca- 

 lices serrate-glandular ; leaves subverticillate. Stem round, 

 a long span in height; flowers terminating in a loose spike, on 

 one-flowered peduncles, which, as well as the bractes, are full 

 of large black glands; petals large in proportion to the plant, 

 marked with lines. This is an elegant little evergreen, form- 

 ing a pretty bush, and flowering during most of the summer. 

 Native of the south of Europe, and of many parts of the 

 Levant and Crimea. It is propagated by cuttings, and may 

 stand in the open air, with a reserve of plants in very severe 

 weather: but it is commonly considered a green-house plant. 



*** With two Styles. 



54. Hypericum Mutilum; Leaves ovate, sessile; they are 

 glaucous, pressed close to the stem, and scarcely conspicuous. 

 Native of watery places in Virginia. 



55. Hypericum 'Setosum. Leaves linear. Stem shrubby, 

 four-cornered, hairy, branching like Horse-tail; leaves very 

 small, hairy, pressed so close to the stem as scarcely to be 

 visible. Flowers golden-coloured. Native of Virginia and 

 Carolina. 



* With one Style. 



56. Hypericum Revolutum. Leaves linear-lanceolate, rolled 

 back at the base; stamina shorter than the corolla. Stem 

 shrnbby, smooth with a brown wrinkled bark ; flowers termi- 

 nating, solitary; germen ovate. Native of Arabia. 



57. Hypericum Monogynum; Chinese St. John's Wort. 

 Stamina longer than the corolla; calices coloured; stem 

 shrubby. Root composed of many woody fibres striking deep 

 into the ground ; stems several, shrubby, nearly two feet 

 high, covered with a purplish bark; leaves stiff, smooth, 



