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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BR1TANNICUM. 



thickish. Leaves ovate-rounded ; the whole margin crenated. 



native of the Ural Mountains. 

 S. h. 2 Plukenetiana. Ser. S. Aypericifolia 



IAn. $2). PL 701., and Don's Mill. ii. 



p. 519.; S. h. var. (3 Dec. Fl. Fr. v. 



p. 645. (Piuk. Phyt, t.218. f. 5.) 



Leaves perfectly entire, glabrous. 



Flowers in sessile corymbs. A native 



of Canada. 

 S. h. 3 aciita Ser. S. acutifolia Willd. 



Enum. 540., Camb. Monog., and Don's 



Mill. ii. p. 519. ; S. sibirica Hort. Par., 



according to Camb. Monog. ; S. am- 



bfgua Pall. ( Our fig. 505.) Leaves 



spathulate, elongate, acute, perfectly 



entire, or rarely 3 5-toothed, rather glabrous. Flowers in sessile 



corymbs. 

 S. h. 4 crenata Ser. S. obovata Waldst. et Kit. ? in Willd. Enum. 



541., Camb. Monog., Barr. Icon. Rar. n. 1376. t. 564.; S. Ayperici- 



folia y Dec. Fl. Fr. v. p. 645. ; S. crenata Lin. Sp. 701., Camb. 



Monog., Don's Mill. ii. p. 519., Lodd. Cat. (Our Jig. 506.) 



Leaves obovate. 



506. S. A. crenata. 



507. S. h. sayrAnica. 



508. S. h. Besseriuna. 



& S. h. 5 savrdnica Ser. S. savranica Besser in Litt., Don's Mill. ii. 

 p. 519. ; S. crenata Pall. Fl. Ross. i. p. 35. t. 19. ; S. Aypericifolia 

 var. j3 longifolia Led. Fl. Ross. Alt. III. t. 429. (Our fig. 507.) 

 All parts pubescent. Leaves entire, or, at the tip, toothed. Flowers 

 minute, disposed in dense terminal corymbs. It is wild about Bar- 

 naoul, and in Podolia. 



m S. h. 6 Besseriana Ser. S. crenata Besser in Litt. ; S. savranica /3 

 Besseriawfl Don's Mill. ii. p. 519. (Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1252; and our 

 fig. 508.) All parts rather glabrous. Leaves mostly entire. Flowers 

 disposed in rather lax terminal corymbs. A native of Podolia and 

 Caucasus. 



Other Varieties or Synonymes. The following kinds, in Messrs. Loddiges's 

 collection, and in the Hort. Soc. Garden, appear to be either identical with, 

 or varieties of, S. Aypericifolia : S. inflexa Wend/and (Hort. Soc. Gard.), 

 S. cbovata Wcndland (Hort. Soc. Gard.), S. argentea, S. cuneata, S. nana, 

 .V. alpina, S. acutifolia, S. decumbens. 



This species has small hard stems, with numerous side branches, clothed 

 with a dark green bark, and with numerous wedge-shaped leaves, like those of 

 St. JohiVs wort, with glands in their substance, which give them the appear- 

 ance of being punctured on the surface ; whence the name. The flowers are 



