Ses RIM 
Dr. G. A. Walker-Arnott on Hypericum Anglicum. 365 
point. Spach arranges his A. parvifolium (H. elatum, Ait.) and 
A. Webbianum at some distance from each other; and as he 
was acquainted with both, the presumption is that they do differ : 
at the same time, the essential character assigned by Choisy to 
his H. grandifolium, in DeCandolle’s ‘ Prodromus,’ is equally 
applicable to H. elatum,—the H. elatum of Choisy in the same 
work being no doubt that of Desrousseaux in the ‘ Encyclopédie 
Méthodigue,’ and not that of Aiton: from other circumstances, 
however, I believe that it will be found that the true H. grandi- 
folium has styles almost as long as those of H. hircinum, and 
narrower sepals than those of H. elatum. What the Madeira 
plant alluded to by Mr.-Babington is, I do not know. 
H. elatum (for so I presume we must in future call the H. An- 
glicum of Bertoloni) is a very handsome shrub, from 23 to 5 feet 
high, woody below, much branched, and bearing copious lemon- 
yellow flowers. Branches often purple or red, as in Cornus san- 
guinea, slightly 2-edged, except between the two uppermost 
airs of leaves, where it is usually much compressed or winged. 
pale large, from 24 to 34 inches long, and 1} to 2 inches 
broad, glossy, usually green, but sometimes spotted or tinged 
with red in autumn. Peduncles and pedicels, when recent, 
slightly angled, sometimes appearing fiat or 2-winged when 
dried under pressure. Sepals in a double row, outer ones usu- 
ally much broader than the inner, oval, acute, or with a minute 
point, varying much in size on the same branch, but without 
regard to the state of the flower, and not becoming enlarged 
after the petals fall off; all the sepals become reflexed after 
flowering, and are persistent. None of the flowers at Donard 
Lodge had the petals fully expanded, even although they and 
the bundles of stamens fell off by touching them ; all were erect, 
concave, and closely surrounded the stamens; but this might 
be caused by their growing in the shade, or by the lateness of the 
season. The stamens were in five bundles or androphores, and 
were so slightly united at the base that the stamens appeared 
distinct when removed artificially. 
H. elatum appears to be a much more tender shrub than H. 
hircinum, and is not adapted to general cultivation in this coun- 
try, except in green-houses: the same localities which are suit- 
able to growing Fuchsias in the open air, where they become 
small trees or large bushes, are equally adapted to H. elatum. 
Both are injured readily by frost, and then either transformed 
‘into an unseemly shrub, or cut down to the ground every 
winter. It has now almost entirely disappeared from our bota- 
nical gardens, but is, I learn, still to be seen in the Botanic 
Garden of Trinity College, Dublin. Its native country is pro- 
bably the Azores; and it can have no claim to be considered 
