62 ST. JOHN'S-WORT FAMILY. 



+* ** Shrubby, evergreen or nearly so, only Southern. 



H. fasciculatum, FASCICI,I:I> S. Leaves narrow-linear and small, and 

 .with shorter ones clustered in the axils ; pod narrow. Wet pine barrens. 



H. myrtifblium, MTKTLK-LEAVED S. Leaves heart-shaped and partly 

 clasping, thick, glaucous ; ])od conical. \Vet pine barrens. 



H. aureum, CJOLDEX S. Leaves oblong with a narrow base, glaucous 

 beneath; thick; flowers mostly single, very large (2' broad), orange-yellow; 

 p/d ovate. Kiver- banks towards the mountains. 



H. nudiflbrum, XAKKD-CLUSTKKLD S. Shrubby and evergreen S., less 

 fcO in Virginia, &c., has 4-angled branches, oblong pale leaves, and a pcduneled 

 naked cynic of rather sinal' ilowers ; pods conical. 



*-*-*-* Hei'lxiceous, timpl&steanned, Northern $* Western. 



H. sphserocarpon, SI-IIKKICAL-FKUITKD S. About 2 high; leaves 

 diverging, oblong-linear ('2' long), obtuse ; flowers numerous, small, in a naked 

 flat cvmc ; sepals ovate ; pod globular, 1 -celled. Rocky banks, W. 



H." adpressum, UIMMGHT-LKAVED 8. A foot high; leaves ascending, 

 lanceolate, often acute ; flowers f;-w and rather small ; sepals narrow ; pod 

 oblong, partly 3-celled. Low grounds, Pennsylvania to Rhode Island. 



H. ellipficum, ELLII>TICAL-LKAVEI> S." Barely 1 high ; leaves spread- 

 - . , * ing, ol)long, thin ; flowers rather few in a nearly naked cyme, pale ; the pod 

 purple, oblong-oval, obtuse, 1 -celled. Wet soil, X. 



- *- - Styles 3 wholly separate (sue Lessons, fig. 255) : herbs. 

 Ovary and pod 3-cellcd : petals black-dotted : styles mostly diverging. 



H. perforation, COMMON* S. The only one not indigenous, nat. from 

 Eu., a troublesome weed in fields, &c. ; spreads by runners from the basej 

 upright stems branching ; leaves oblong or linear-oblong, with pellucid dots ; 

 flowers rather large in open leafy cymes ; the deep yellow petals twice the length 

 of the lanceolate acute sepals. The juice is very acrid. 



H. corymbbsum, COKYMIJKI> S. Common N. in moist ground; stem 

 2 high, sparingly branched ; leaves oblong, slightly clasping, having black as 

 well as pellucid dots ; flowers rather small, crowded ; petals light yellow and 

 black-lined as well as dotted ; sepals oblong ; styles not longer than 'tin- pod. 



H. maculatum, SPOTTED S. Common's, has somewhat heart-shaped 

 or more clasping leaves, lanceolate sepals, and very long and slender styles - 

 otherwise like the last. 



*+ ++ Ovary I -eel led : stem strict: leaves ascending, acute, closely sessile, short. 

 Cx * .14-- H. anguibsum, AXGLKD S. Wet pine-barrens from New Jersey S. 

 * /f-9-L .St cm sharply 4-angled (l-2 high), smooth; leaves ovate or lance-oblong; 

 flowers scatteretT along the ascending branches of the cyme, small, cor-jjcr- 

 yelhnv ; styles slender. 



~~IT pilbsum, HAIRY S. Wet pine-barrens S. Stem terete, and with the 

 lance-ovate leaves roughish-downy ; styles short. 



# # Annual, low and slender, small-flowered herbs: stamens 5 12 : ovary and 

 brown-purple pod strictly \-cettedt .sTyA.s .3, w-parate : sepals narrow, erect: 

 petal f> narroir. 



*- Leaves conspicuous and tpreodiitg : floirers in ci/mcs. 



H. mtltilum, SMALL S. Slender, much branched and leafy up to the 

 flowers; leaves partly clasping, thin, 5-nerved, ovate or oblong;' petals pale 

 yellow. Everywhere in low grounds. 



H. Canad6nse, CANADIAN S. Stem and branches strictly erect ; leaves 

 linear or lanceolate, o-ncrvcd at the base ; petals copper-yellow. Wet sandy soil. 



-1- *- Lcar<s (&, airl-sha/K-d or wale-like, and minute : jinn rx rery small and 

 scutte ml aloin/ (lie nnim-roiin bushy and wiry s/endi r brain-Ins. 



H. Drumm6ndii, DKUMMIND'S S. In dry barrens W. Illinois and S., 

 with lincar-awl-shapcd leaves, s'.iort-pedicellcd flowers, and pods not longer than 

 the calyx. 



H. Sarbthra, ORANGK-OKASS or I'IXK-\VKEI>. C'omnion in dry steril. 

 soil, with minute awl-shaped appressed scales for leaves, ilowers sessile on the c 

 wiry branches, and slender pods much exceeding the calyx. 



