Hypericinecz Hyp'ericum. 77 



commonly seen in gardens. It is a prostrate creeping shrubby 

 plant with oblong obtuse coriaceous glossy leaves with very 

 small pellucid dots, and large terminal bright yellow flowers 

 3 to 4 inches in diameter. July to September. A native of 

 South-eastern Europe, occasionally met with in this country as 

 a waif or outcast from gardens. 



2. H. hirclnum. A much-branched shrub 3 to 4 feet 

 high. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, quite entire, about 2 

 inches long; glands scattered, linear. Flowers yellow, l^ir.ch 

 in diameter, borne in small terminal cymes. A pretty shrub, 

 often remaining in bloom till the end of October. Native of 

 the South of Europe. This species emits a peculiar goat-like 

 odour when rubbed. 



3. H. Androscemum. Tutsan, Sweet Amber. A native 

 erect shrubby species about 2 feet high, with ovate subcordate 

 leaves having numerous very minute glandular dots. Flowers 

 yellow, 6 to 8 lines in diameter, in terminal clustered cymes. 



4. H. elatum. Very near the last, but in this the flowers are 

 rather larger, and the styles longer than the stamens. An in- 

 troduced species, occasionally found in a semi-wild state. 



5. H. elodes. A very .distinct native species, found in wet 

 boggy places. It is a creeping herbaceous plant with orbicular 

 or oblong amplexicaul villous leaves about 6 lines long, and 

 small pale yellow flowers whose sepals are margined with 

 reddish glands. 



H. prolificum and //. Kalmianum are North American 

 shrubby species, remarkable in having very numerous stamens 

 only slightly united at the base into five bundles. These two 

 species are very near in character, the leaves of the former 

 being larger, and the flowers smaller, with more than three 

 carpels. 



ORDER XXL TERNSTRCEMIACE^l. 



A small order of trees and shrubs with alternate simple ex- 

 stipulate leaves and white, pink, or red flowers. Peduncles 

 1 -flowered, axillary or terminal. Sepals 5 or 7, imbricated, 

 coriaceous and deciduous. Petals 5 to 9, often cohering at the 

 base. Stamens numerous, hypogynous ; sometimes monadel- 

 phous. Stigmas on a long style. Capsule 2- to 7-celled, few- 

 seeded. Seeds large, albumen none or thin. Chiefly from the 

 tropics ; a few in China and Japan and North America. 



