110 P.OTAXICAL GAZETTE. [May, 



Japoniciim is represented in our flora at all, it is our western II. anngalloides. 

 This last named species approaches very nearly our eastern H. mutilura, to 

 which species H. gymnanthum has been referred. This is the closest relation- 

 ship we can trace between H. Japonicum and H. gymnanthum. If these two 

 are one, then must H. mutilum and H. anagalloides follow, and with such a 

 limitation our species of Hypericum could be reduced to very few. 



27. H. Caiiadense L. A half to a foot or more high: leaves 

 linear to linear lanceolate, glandular dotted beneath, mostly ta- 

 pering to the sessile 3-nerved base, half to an inch or more long, 

 a line or two wide: flowers in loose cymes: stamens 5 to 10: 

 capsule very acutely conical, 2 or 3 lines long, longer or shorter 

 than the sepals. — Spec. 785; Torr. Fl. N. Y. 1. 89; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 165. 



//. thesiiffoHnm, paudflorum, and Momnense HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. v. 192 

 and l'j;5. 



Wet sandy soil, from Canada to Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Win- 

 nipeg valley. 



Exceedingly variable in size. The extreme forms may he grouped under 

 ihe following varieties: 



Yar. major Gray. Stems much stouter and taller: leaves 

 larger, an inch or two long, 4 to 6 lines wide, lanceolate, more or 

 less clasping, often very acute : flowers in larger more crowded 

 cymes: sepals long pointed: capsules larger. — Manual, 8G. 



From Canada to Pennsylvania, Illinois, and about the Great Lakes. 



Yar. miniinum Chois. Dwarf, 1 to 3 inches high, simple, few- 

 flowered : leaves oblong, obtuse, 4 to 5 lines long, a line or two 

 wide, smaller and more crowded below. — DC. Prodr. i. 550; 

 Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 110. 



On wet rocks, Canada, to Wisconsin (Lapham), and "Cypress Hills," N. W. 

 T. (Macoun). 



* «■ 5 Bnshy branching, with rigid erect black-dotted stems and branches: 

 leaves very slender and rigid or minute, erect or appressed: flowers scattered 

 nlong the upper part of leafy branches. 



28. H. Drumniondii Torr & Gray. Stem and alternate 

 branches rather stout, 10 to 30 inches high : leaves linear-subu- 

 late, erect, a fourth to an incii long, one-nerved : Howers pedi- 

 cellate: stamens 10 to 20: capsule ovate, about 2 lines long, not 

 longer than the sepals ; seeds large, oval, strongly ribbed and 

 transversely lacunose, brownish yellow. — Fl. i. 165. 



Sarothra Druvimnndii Grev. & Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 236, t. 107. 

 In dry soil, Georgia and Florida, to Illinois and Texas. 



