24 THALAMIFLOK^;. 



flowers crowded closely together at the extremities of the branches, 

 large, and of a beautiful rose-colour. Aller. Newton road, just 

 beyond Kingskerswell. Bovey Heath. Gridleigh, near Chagford. 

 (E. B. t. 754.) P. vn. vm. 



OED. XVII. 



TILIA. LIME. 



T. europsea (common L., or Linden-tree.'} In woods over 

 nearly the whole of Europe. A handsome, long-lived tree, grow- 

 ing sometimes as high as 120 feet, but usually not more than half 

 that height. It bears sweet-scented flowers of a pale whitish 

 green. It is said that Linnseus derived his own name from the 

 Swedish Lin, our Lime or Linden-tree. Black Head, beyond 

 Hope's Nose, apparently wild. Torre Abbey. Cockington, etc. 

 (E. B. t. 610.) T. vn. 



ORD. XVIII. HYPERICACEJE. 

 HYPERICUIM. ST. JOHN'S-WORT. 



1. H. Androssemum (Tutsan?) In bushy places and open 

 woods. A shrubby-looking plant ; leaves large, ovate, nearly ses- 

 sile, and opposite. Flowers bright yellow, in a terminal cyme. 

 Hope's Nose. Ansti's Cove, and formerly on the Waldon Hill. 

 (E. B. t. 1225.) P. vn. vm. 



2. H. perforatum (common perforated St. J.) In woods, 

 hedges, and thickets, by roadsides, etc., frequent. Plant from 12 

 to 18 inches high, branching at the upper part ; leaves oblong, 

 sessile, marked with numerous pellucid dots ; flowers in a showy 

 terminal corymb, bright yellow, marked with little black dots. 

 Waldon Hill. Park Hill. Ansti's Cove, etc. (E. B. t. 295.) 

 P. vn.-ix. 



3. H. dubium (imperf orate St. J.) Similar situations to the 

 last, attached especially to hilly districts. Somewhat like H. per- 

 foratum, but more leafy and with a slightly quadrangular stem. 



Leaves larger and broader with fewer clear dots, but with some 

 black ones on their under sides. Berry Pomeroy woods. Many 

 parts of Dartmoor. (E. B. t. 296.) P. vn. vm. 



4. H. quadrangulum (square-stalked St. J.) In moist pas- 

 tures, by hedges, ditches, and rivulets. Readily distinguished 

 from the two foregoing by its square stem with 4 well-marked 

 angles. Leaves clasping, opposite and ovate, flowering stems 



