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** Sepals toothed or ciliate-srlandular. 



H. tomentosum L. Leaves oval, embracing the stem, oval -obtuse, white- 

 felted, glands pellucid. Sepals acuminate. Stems ascending or prostrate. 

 Flowers rather large, in a loose corymb. Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, very acute, 

 shortly ciliate. 



Damp places, local. May- July. 



H. montanum L. Mountain St. John's Wort. Stem 1-2 ft. high, terete, 

 almost glabrous like the leaves, which are sessile, oblong-obtuse, with marginal 

 black glands, glaucous beneath, the upper ones cordate-ovate or linear oblong. 

 Sepals lanceolate-acute. Stems rigid, slender, often leafless above. Flowers pale 

 yellow, fragrant. Petals eglandular or nearly so. 



Mountain woods, descending sometimes almost to the coast as at Menton. 

 June-August. 



H. perfoliatum L. is a larger plant with half-amplexicaul ovate-lanceolate 

 cordate leaves, and deeply fringed sepals, which occurs rarely in the Var on 

 wooded slopes. May-June. 



H. hyssopifolium Vill. Leaves linear, the upper ones fascicled, 

 glabrous, edges rolled in. Flowers pale yellow in a long panicle. Sepals 

 strongly glandular-ciliate, elliptic. Capsule ovate-acuminate, 3 times length 

 of calyx. 



Dry slopes and rocky limestone mountains. June-July. Rather rare. 



H. Coris L. (Plate VIII). Plant glabrous, greyish-green, 6-12 in. high. 

 Leaves in bundles of 3 or 4, narrow linear, spotted, with edges rolled in. 

 Flowers bright yellow streaked with red, rather large, in a short corymb. 

 Sepals linear oblong, obtuse, glandular toothed. Capsule oval, twice length of 

 calyx. 



Arid slopes and limestone rocks. June-July. 



TILIACE,. 

 TIUA L. LIME. 



T. platyphylla Scop. = T. grandifolia Ehrh. A tree of considerable 

 height with pilose twigs, leaves downy beneath, fruit obovate-globose, with 3-5 

 prominent ribs when ripe. 



Mountain woods, rare. June-July. 



T. ulmifolia Scop. = T. parvifolia Ehrh. A tree, differing from the last 

 chiefly in its leaves being glabrous and glaucous beneath, suborbicular, and its 

 smaller fruit with no prominent ribs. 



Woods in the mountains and hills. June-July. 



Sub-division II. DISCIFLOR^. 



LINAGES. 



Sepals 5, quite entire, but often ciliate LINUM. 



Sepals 4, 2-4 toothed RADIOLA. 



LINUM L. FLAX. 

 * Flowers white, pink, or blue. 



L. catharticum L. Cathartic Flax. A small, slender annual. Leaves 

 opposite, glabrous, rather glaucous, upper ones alternate, linear-oblong. Buds 

 nodding. Petals small, oblong, white, distinct. 



Woods and rather damp sandy places. May-July. 



L. angustifolium L. Leaves smooth at borders, alternate, narrow linear 

 lanceolate. Sepals ovate-acuminate, inner ones ciliate, 3 nerved. Flowers blue ; 

 petals obtuse. Anthers suborbicular. Stems 1-2 ft. high, with divaricate 



