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arising from the axils ; flowers small, yellow, not so showy as the 

 last. Torquay. Mary church. Cockington lanes. Ilsham. Paign- 

 ton. Bradley Woods. (E. B. t. 370.) P. vn. 



5. H . humifusum (trailing St. J.) In stony heaths, and 

 boggy pastures, woods, and thickets. A low, decumbent, very 

 much branched, trailing plant, with small oblong leaves, and not 

 very numerous pale-yellow flowers. Park Hill wood. Meaclfoot. 

 Marychurch. Moss-grown blocks of rock on the banks of the 

 Erme, Ivybridge. (E. B. t. 1226.) P. YII. 



6. H. linariifolium (linear-leaved St. J.) On hilly wastes 

 and in rocky situations. Resembling H. humifusum, but more 

 upright in its growth and with much narrower leaves. Flowers 

 in terminal corymbs, larger and of a brighter yellow. Banks of 

 the Teign. Belmont, near Exeter (Miss Snow). Between Sandy 

 Park and Tingle Bridge (Gk W. Warren). (E. B. S. t. 2851.) P. 



VII. VIII. 



7. H. pulchVum (small upright St. J.} Dry woods, open 

 heaths, and waysides, frequent. Plant upright, with a slender 

 but stiff stem, from 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves of the principal stem 

 somewhat heart-shaped, clasping ; those of the branches much 

 smaller and narrower. Flowers in loose clusters, bright yellow ; 

 the buds before opening tipped with vivid red. Very common 

 about the neighbourhood of Torquay. (E. B. 1. 1227.) P. VI. vn. 



8. H. hirsutum (hairy St. J.) In copses and woods, frequent. 

 Plant about 2 feet high, with a downy or hairy stem ; leaves large, 

 rather downy beneath, oblong, slightly stalked, and marked with 

 numerous pellucid dots. Flowers yellow, but much paler than 

 the last. Park Hill. Meadfoot Cliffs. Bradley Woods. Copse 

 by the brook at Chudleigh. (E. B. t. 1156.) P. vn. vin. 



9. H. montanum (mountain St. J.) In woods and bushy 

 places in hilly districts, not so frequent as the other species. 

 About 2 feet high ; stem stiff and upright, not branched. Lower 

 leaves large, of a pointed oval shape, clasping the stem, opposite ; 

 upper leaves smaller, without shining dots, but having a row of 

 black ones round their under margins. Flowers yellow, in a dense 

 terminal cluster. Ansti's Cove. Babbicombe Down. Milber 

 Down. Chudleigh. (E. B. t. 371.) P. vn. vin. 



10. H. Elodes (marsh St. J.) In marshy and boggy places. 

 Stems creeping and spreading, from 6 to 8 or 10 inches long; 

 leaves roundish, opposite, clasping the stem ; whole plant covered 

 with loose, woolly, whitish hairs. Flowers yeUow, in a loose ter- 

 minal cluster. Osier-beds at Paignton. Forde bog, near Newton. 

 Bovey Heath. In boggy places near Ivybridge. Chagford. Bogs 

 about Dartmoor. (E. B. t. 109.) P. vn. vni. 



