ST. JOHNS-WORT FAMILY. 621 



simple below with slender drooping branches; very handsome when loaded with 

 the bright yellow flowers. 



Type locality: "Cette espece crolt naturellement dans la Caroline." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hypericum aspalathoides Willd. Sp. PI. 3 : 1451. 1805. 



SHORT-LEAF ST. JOHN'S-WORT. 



Hypericum fasciculatum var. aspalathoides Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 672. 1840. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 27. Chap. Fl. 40 ; ed. 3, 57. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Boggy pine barrens. Baldwin and Mobile counties. 

 Flowers golden yellow, August, September. Abundant. Low bushy shrub with 

 erect-spreading rigid branches, frequently forming extensive patches about shaMow 

 pine-barren ponds. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hypericum galioides Lam. Encycl. 4: 161. 1796. GLOSSY ST. JOHN'S-WORT. 



Chap.F1.40;ed.3,57. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina and Florida to Mississippi and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt. Tuscaloosa County, Tannehill (E. A. Smith). Flow- 

 ers, July. 



Specimens from the above locality represent the form described by Lamarck and 

 the typical form of Chapman of this polymorphous species. The leaves are densely 

 crowded, thick, glossy above, margins revolute, with a callous whitish point, the 

 sepals linear like the leaves, equal or unequal, longer or shorter than the petals. 



Type locality : " Get arbuste croit naturellement dans la Caroline meridionale." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hypericum galioides pallidum nom. uov. 



Hypericum galioides ambiguum Chap. Fl. 40. 1860. Not H. ambiguum Ell. 



Louisianian area. Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. 



Chap. Fl. 40. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Shaded borders of ditches and 

 swamps in alluvial forests. Clarke and Escambia counties. Baldwin County, 

 Stockton. Flowers June to September. Frequent. 



Shrubby at the base, diffusely branched and at once recognized by the thin dull 

 pale' linear-lanceolate, flat leaves, shorter and broader than in the type, inch wide, 

 1 to H inches long, obtuse, minutely pointed, and the margins scarcely revolute, 

 sepals foliaceous, broadly lanceolate, suddenly contracted at the base, sharply 

 acuminate, equal, shorter than or as long as the petals, pedicels bibracteolate. Strik- 

 ingly as in its extreme form this variety differs from the type, intermediate forms 

 occur connecting the two insensibly. 



Type locality (Chap. Fl.) : " River swamps, Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hypericum cistifolium Lam. Encycl. 4 : 158. 1796. Not Torr. & Gray, nor Chap. 

 Fl. 41. CISTUS-LEAF ST. JOHN'S-WORT. 



Hypericum nudiflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 78. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 32. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 84. Chap. Fl. 41. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 162. 

 Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 58. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Florida to North Carolina, west to Louisiana 

 (Hale}, Arkansas, southern Missouri, and southern Illinois. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain. Border of swamps in alluvial forests. Mobile County, 

 swamp of Three-mile Creek, June 15. Infrequent. Perennial. 



Type locality not given. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Hypericum sphaerocarpum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 78. 1803. 



ROUND- FRUITED ST. JOHN'S-WORT. 



Hypericum cistifolium Gray, Man. ed. 6, 94. 1890. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 59. 1897. Not Lam. 



Gray, Man. ed. 5, 85. 



Carolinian and Louisianiaii areas. Kentucky, Tennessee, southern Illinois, and 

 Missouri. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley to Central Prairie region. Sunny calcareous rocky 

 hillsides, open prairies. Franklin County, Russellville, 600 feet. Madison County, 

 Montesano, 800 feet. Hale County, Gallion, so-called bald prairies, about 250 feet. 

 Flowers May, June; not frequent. Shrubby at the base, 8 to 12 inches high. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Kentucky." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



