CLASS XIX. ORDER I. HYPOCUGRIS, 1017 
are mostly tinged with crimson, which gives the plant an elegant 
and gay appearance, combined with the beautiful crimson tipped 
flowers. 
1l. H. elo'des, Linn. (Fig. 1189.) Marsh St. John’s Wort. Stem 
round, ascending, rooting at the base; leaves roundish ovate, sessile, 
downy, scattered over with pellucid dots ; calyx segments ovate, acute, 
ciliated with short stalked reddish glands; panicle few flowered. 
English Botany, t. 109.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 330.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 282.—Lindley’s Synopsis, p. 42. 
Root long branched fibres from the lower joints of the prostrate or 
creeping base of the stem, becoming erect, and from three to twelve 
inches long, round, or somewhat angular, clothed with woolly 
pubescence, branched only at the base, leafy. Zeaves roundish ovate, 
’ sessile, clothed with short soft pubescence, dark green above, pale 
beneath, and with prominent radiating ribs, more or less profusely 
dotted over with pellucid dots. Inflorescence a small terminal 
panicle of few yellow flowers. Calya segments ovate, acute, smooth, 
veiny, fringed with reddish glands, elevated on a short stalk. Petals 
ovate oblong, pale yellow, with greenish ribs. Stamens with the 
filaments in three sets, but divided only about one-third the length. 
Styles three, spreading. Capsules ovate, ribbed, often imperfect. 
Habitat.—Spongy bogs, especially in mountainous situations. 
Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 
CLASS XIX. ; 
SYNGENE'SIA. 
(Anthers united into a tube. Flowers compound.) 
ORDER I. 
POLYGA'MIA A.QUALIS. Frorets att PErrectr. 
GENUS I. HYPOCHG'RIS.—Liny. Cat’s-ear. 
Nat. Ord. Comrosi'ta. Juss. 
Gen. Coan. Jnvolucrum oblong, imbricated. Receptacle paleaceous, 
the scales deciduous. Fruit striated, more or less beaked. 
Pappus feathery.—Name from iro, for ; and x2105, a hog ; so 
called from hogs being fond of the roots. 
1. H. gla'bra, Linn. (Fig. 1190.) Smooth Cat’s-ear. Stem branched, 
nearly smooth, and scarcely leafy ; root leaves toothed and sinuated ; 
