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HYPERICACEAE. [VOL. II. 



8. Hypericum dolabriforme Vent. Straggling 

 St. John's-wort. (Fig. 2451.) 



Hypericum dolabriforme Vent. Hort. Cels. pi. 45. 1800. 



Straggling and branching, decumbent, 6 / -2o / high; branch- 

 lets slightly angled. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 8"- 

 20" long, i // -2 // wide, acute or obtusish, spreading or as- 

 cending, with smaller ones clustered in the axils; cymes 

 terminal, leafy, few-sevcral-flowered; pedicels about %" 

 long; flowers nearly i' broad; sepals foliaceous, lanceolate or 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, nearly or quite as long as the 

 oblique pointed petals; stamens numerous, distinct; styles 

 3, united below; capsule ovoid-conical, coriaceous, $"-$" 

 long, i-celled; seeds rugose. 



On dry hills, barrens of Kentucky and Tennessee. July-Aug. 



9. Hypericum ellipticum Hook. 



Elliptic-leaved or Pale St. John's-wort. 



(Fig. 2452.) 



//. ellipticum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i: no. 1830. 



Herbaceous, perennial; stem somewhat 4- 

 angled, simple or with few branches, erect, 8'- 

 20' high. Leaves thin, spreading, elliptic or 

 oval, obtuse, sessile, narrowed at the base or 

 partly clasping, 8"-i5" long, 3 "-5" wide; 

 cymes terminal, few-flowered, leafless but 

 bracted; flowers pale yellow, nearly sessile, 

 5 // ~7 // broad; sepals spreading, oblong or 

 oblanceolate, slightly shorter than the petals; 

 styles 3, united below; stamens numerous; 

 capsule ovoid-globose, i-celled, about 2" long; 

 seeds striate; sepals and petals sometimes 4. 



In swamps and along streams, Nova Scotia to 

 Manitoba, Connecticut, northern New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania and Minnesota. July-Aug. 



10. Hypericum virgatum I v am. Vir- 

 gate or Copper-colored 'St. John's- 

 wort. (Fig. 2453.) 



Jlypericum virgatum Lam. Encycl. 4: 158. 

 H. angulosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.2: 78. 



1797. 

 1803. 



Slender, herbaceous, erect or ascending, 

 simple, or branched above, i-2> high, the 

 stem and branches 4-angled. Lower leaves 

 ascending or erect, oblong-lanceolate, acute 

 or obtusish, 8 // -i5 // long, 2"-4" wide, sessile; 

 cyme terminal, ample, compound, bracted, 

 pedicels y f/ -2 ff long; flowers numerous, cop- 

 per-yellow, alternate, 4"-6" broad; sepals 

 foliaceous, ovate or lanceolate, keeled, more 

 or less shorter than the petals; styles 3, dis- 

 tinct; stigmas capitate; capsule i-celled, ovoid, 

 2" long, enclosed by the sepals. 



In low grounds, Delaware to Illinois, south to 

 Florida. July-Sept. 



Hypericum virgatum ovalifolium Britton, Trans. N. 



Y. Acad. Sci. 9: 10. 1889. 

 Leaves oval or broadly elliptic, 2"-io" long, i l A"~7" wide, erect, appressed, very obtuse. Pine- 

 barrens of New Jersey. 



