CLASS XVIIJ, ORDER I. ] HYPERICUM. 1015 
English Botany, t. 1986.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 327.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 282.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 42. 
Stem erect, about a foot high, straight, simple or branched above, 
leafy, smooth, round, angular above and at the joints. Leaves oblong 
lanceolate, entire, smooth, the margin somewhat revolute, dark green 
above, paler beneath, and scattered over with dark almost black dots, 
the mid-rib stout, and the veins numerous, small. Inflorescence 
terminal, branched, somewhat leafy panicles. Bracteas and calyx 
segments streaked and dotted with dark purple, and their margins 
copiously fringed with long bristles, tipped with a small globose 
gland. Corolla bright yellow, with obovate petals, minutely fringed 
or toothed, and scattered over with black glandular dots. Capsules 
ovate, covered over with glandular dots. Seeds numerous, small. 
Habitat.—Side of a hedge near Aberdalgy, in Strathearn, Perth 
shire. 
Perennial ; flowering in September and October. 
A doubtful native plant; it has very probably been brought from the 
Continent, where in hilly, bushy places it is not unfrequent. It is 
nearly allied to H. Richeri, Vill., which has, however, the calyx and 
bracteas fringed with much shorter bristles, and the calyx segments 
more ovate and obtusely pointed. 
8. H. lineari'folium, Vahl. (Fig. 1186.) Linear leaved St. John’s 
Wort. Stem erect, round; leaves linear, obtuse, the margins with 
black dots, revolute, without pellucid dots; calyx segments lanceolate, 
acute, their margins ciliated with stalked glands, and numerously 
dotted with black dots. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 282.—De Cand. Prod. 1. 
p- 592. 
Stems several from the same root, procumbent below, becoming 
erect, about a foot high, round, smooth, slender, simple. Leaves 
sessile, linear, obtuse, dark green above, pale beneath, with a stout 
mid-rib, the margin rolled back, with a line of dark dots, but without 
any of the pellucid ones. Inflorescence a sub-corymbose panicle of 
rather large bright yellow flowers. Calyx segments and bracteas 
lanceolate, acute, striated and dotted with black elevated spots, and 
the margin ciliated with pale bristles, tipped with a dark globose 
gland. Corolla large, of oblong ovate petals, more or less scattered 
over with black dots, and often toothed or ciliated on the margin 
towards the point, with glandular serratures. Styles three. Capsules 
ovate, many seeded. 
Habitat—On dry slopes of hills in several parts of Jersey, par- 
ticularly on a hill between Anna Porta and St. Katherine's Bay.— 
Babington. 
Perennial; flowering in July and August. 
Native specimens of this pretty species we have not seen, but have 
