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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICL'M. 



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thickish. Leaves ovate-roumled ; 

 native of the Ural Mountains. 



S. h. 2 Plukenetxana. Ser. S. /^ypericifolia 

 Lin. Sj). PL 701., and Don's Mill. n. 

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

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

 Leaves perfectly entire, glabrous. 

 Flowers in sessile corymbs. A native 

 of Canada. 



S. h. 3 acuta Ser. S. acutifolia Willd. 

 Enum. 540., Camb. Monog., -.md Do7i's 

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

 according to Camb. Monog. ; S. ani- 

 bigua Pall. (Our Jig. 505.) Leaves 

 spathulate, elongate, acute, perfectly 

 entire, or rarely 3 5-toothed, rather glabrous, 

 corymbs. 



S. h. 4 crendta Ser. S. obovata Waldst. et Kit. ? 

 541., Camb. Monog., Barr. Icon. Bar. n. 1376. t 



the vphole margin crenated. A 



505. S. h. acuta. 



Flowers in sessile 



in Willd. Enum. 

 n. 13Vb. t. 564.; iS". /i\perici- 

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

 Monog., Don's Mill. ii. p. 519., Load. Cat. (Our Jig. 50C.) 

 Leaves obovate. v% 



506. S. lu crenkU. 



507 .^. h . saTTanica. 



508. S. h. Besseriiirai. 



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

 p. 519. ; S. crenata Pall. Fl. Rop. i. p. 35. t. 19. ; S. .^vpericifoliu 

 var. /3 longifolia Led. Fl. Ross. Alt. III. t. 429. (Our Jig. 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. 

 as S. h. 6 Besseiiana Ser. S. crenata Besser in Litt. ; S. savranica |8 

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

 Jig. 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. //ypericifolia : S. inflexa Wendland (Hort. Soc. Gard.), 

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

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



This species has small hard stems, with numerous side brandies, clotheu| 

 with a dp ;k green bark, and with numerous wedge-shaped leaves, like those ot| 

 St. John's wort, witli glands in their substance, which give them the appear-! 

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



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