106 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ May, 
Fig. 7. Same from the interior or the side next the rhachis 
Fig. 8. dp tiple glume, with its palea, etc., removed from the outer 
Fig. 8a. The sort rhae nae high) is prolonged behind the palea. 
Fig. 9. The palea, dorsal v 
Fig. 10. ey fruit, to which 3 is attached by adnation a stamen, the anther 
which is seen abov 
Revision of North American Hypericacee.—ll. 
JOHN M. COULTER. 
* Styles 3 or 4, very long, distinct and spreading, stigmas capitat 
capsule tiki: strictly one-celled, a line or two long ; seeds min utely striate i 
pitted: s mple or branching he tis ,lto3 feet high, with small distant ascenc 
ing sayy or pease pide and the uppermost branches of the cyme heaniag 
alternate distant flower 
H. virgatum Lam. Leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, half to an inch long, 2 to 4 lines wide: flowers bright yel- 
low, 4 to 8 lines in diameter, i in nearly naked eymes: sepals lan- 
ceolate to ovate, acute or acuminate, keele elow, more or less 
wee, and enclosing the small enpaule.—Diet. iv iv. 158; Chois. 
n DC. Prodr. i. 547; Torr. & Gray, FI. i 
H. angulosum ie Willd. = iii. 1453 ; Chois. 1. c. 546; Torr. & Gray, 
1, ce. 164 and 673; Gray, Manual, 
fh, edt Poir. Suppl. vii. 700. 
Wet pine barrens of New Jersey, to Florida and Kentucky. 
This species is exceedingly variable in the size of its leaves, but this is 2 
characteristic of the whole genus, and has led to much confusion in attempt- 
ing to construct species upon leaf characters, The broader-leaved, more north- 
ern forms are to be referred to the species, while associated with it at the south 
Var. acutifolium. Usually taller and more branching: leaves 
linear-lanceolate, tapering to a very acute apex, an inch or more 
long, a line or two wide. 
H. aeutifolium Ell. ii. 26; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 167. 
18. H. pilosum Watrer. Scabrous tomentose, mostly sim- 
le: leaves ovate-lanceolate, usually appressed, 4 to '6 lines long; 
about a line or two wide, sometimes much reduced: flowers to 
5 lines in diamater, in few-flowered eymes: sepals ovate-lanceo- 
late, acute: petals more than twice as long, Soi when old.— 
Fl. Car. 190; Chois. 1. c. 549; Torr. & Gray, F 
HI, setosum L. as to Clayton’ 8 pret < ka Virg. 88. 
H. simplex Michx, F1. ii. 80 ; Choi 
Aseyrum villosum L. Spee. 788 
Wet pine barrens, South Carolin: to © Flobida and Louisiana. 
