1010 ANDROS MUM. | CLASS XVIIT. ORDER I. 
‘Yes, lightly softly move! 
There is a power, @ presence in the woods ; 
A viewless being, that with life and love, 
Informs the reverential solitudes : 
The rich air knows it, and the mossy sod— 
That thou art here, my God!” 
CLASS XVIII. 
POLYADEL'PHIA. 
(Filaments combined in more than two sets.) 
ORDER I. 
POLYAN'DRIA. Many SramMeEns. 
GENUS I. ANDROSZ'’MUM.—Att. Tutsan. 
Nat. Ord. Hyprerici'NEx. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx divided into five unequal pieces. Petals five. 
Styles three. Stamens numerous, united at the base. Fruit a 
pulpy one celled berry.—Name from wyne, a man; and amo, 
blood ; so called from the juice of the berry colouring the fingers 
like blood when bruised. 
1, A. offici'nale, Allioni, (Fig. 1178.) Tutsan, or Park leaves. 
Stem shrubby, compressed; calyx of five ovate unequal pieces; 
leaves ovate, sessile. 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 43.— Hypericum Androsenum, Linn.—English 
Botany, t. 1225.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 323 —Hooker, British 
Flora, ed. 4. vol. i.p 281. 
An erect branched shrub, about two feet high, its branches 
quadrangular, compressed, smooth, bright brown. eaves’ opposite, 
sessile, smooth, spreading, ovate, somewhat heart-shaped, a bright 
green above, pale and glaucous beneath, with a prominent mid-rib 
and lateral veins. Inflorescence a terminal dichotomous cyme of 
numerous flowers. Bractea leafy. Calyx of five pieces, ovate, three 
of them larger than the others, smooth, pale green. Corolla about an 
inch wide, of five bright yellow ovate spreading petals. Stamens 
numerous, in three sets. Styles three, spreading. Fruit a purplish 
black pulpy berry, imperfectly three celled. 
Habitat—Hedges and shrubby places; Walsham and Dalling, 
Norfolk ; Asteridge, Herts; between Dorking and Guilford, and at 
Great Marlow, Bucks; not unfrequent in Devonshire and Cornwall; 
frequent in Ireland and the West of Scotland. 
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