1886. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 107 
** * ® Styles 3, long, distinct and usually spreading ; stigmas capitate: cap- 
sule ovate, 3-celled, more or less glandular and exhaling a heavy odor when 
crushed ; seeds as in the last: whole plant (including petals and anthers) more 
or less black dotted: herbs, with rather arge leaves and flowers, the petals 
much longer than the sepals. 
T Eastern species: plants 1 to 4 feet high : capsules mostly not lobed. 
19, H. PERFORaATUM L. Much branched: leaves linear to 
oblong, obtuse, mostly tapering at base, half to an inch long, 1 
to 5 lines wide: flowers numerous in loose cymes, about an inch 
in diameter: sepals linear-lanceolate, very acute or acuminate: 
tals bright yellow, black dotted along the margin: capsule 
conical-ovate, 2 or 3 lines long. 
Common everywhere in old fields as a weed difficult to extirpate. (Nat. 
from Europe.) 
20. H. maeulatam Watrer. Simple below, more or less 
branched above, conspicuously dotted all over: leaves o long to 
lance-ovate, obtuse or acute, more or less clasping, sometimes 
tapering at base, 1 to 3 inches long, 4 to 9 lines wide: flowers 
smaller, 3 to 6 lines in diameter, crowded: sepals lanceolate to 
ovate, acute: petals pale yellow, with black lines as well as dots : 
capsule conical-ovate, 2 or 3 lines long —FI. Car. 189; Michx. 
Fl. ii. 80; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 161 and 673. 
H. Virginicum Walter, 189. 
Hi. punctatum Lam. Dict. iv. 164: Chois. in DC. Prodr. i. 547 ; Reich. Hort. 
Bot. i. 61, t. 88. 
_ HT. corymbosun Muhl. Willd. Spec. iii. 1457; Torr. & Gray, I. c. 160; Gray, 
Manual, 85. 
H. micranthum Chois. Prodr. Hyper. 44, t.5; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 109. 
From Canada and Minnesota to Florida and Texas. 
This species is quite variable in the length of its styles, and upon the char- 
acters of short and long styles H. corymbosum and H. maculatum were form- 
erly Separated. This distinction, however, does not hold, as although the 
nor 
€rn plants also usually have more glandular capsules. 
21. H. graveolens BuckLey. Simple, or somewhat branched 
above: leaves large, elliptical-oblong, obtuse, closely sessile or 
clasping, 2 or 3 inches long, about an inch wide: flowers an inch 
°r more in diameter, in few-flowered cymes: sepals lanceolate, 
