54 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Var. a. oblongus. Root oblong. 
Var. b. rotundus. Root subglobose. 
Black eet Spanish Radish. 
Annual. -8 feet high, sparsely hispid, branched. ae — 12 or 15 inches 
tong,’ mea “sigue with fungous or fp digss partiti ons. Seeds few, large. 
: cultivated. Native of China, Fl, June- deppraber: ” Fr. July - October. 
— bees of this plant is an universal favorite at 
2. R. asics L. Pod i 2- qoinied ; the lower joint often 
seedless and stalk-like ; the upper one necklace-form by constriction be- 
tween the seeds, with no proper jarkitics flowers yellow, turning white 
Wild Radish. Jointed Charlock. 
Root annual, long and tapering. Lower leaves lyrate, the upper lobe large and rounded ; 
the ee leaves lanceolate, sinuate-dentate, a rou with bristly hairs. 
Fields especially eastward. July —Septe 
Obs. Naturalized from Europe, and a peri caees weed in New Eng- 
land and New York State, and extending westward. 
Orper VII. HYPERICA’CE. {Sr. Jonn’s-wort Famny.) 
r shrubs, with a resinous juice. Leaves opposite, entire, without stipules, punctate 
Herbs 0 
with black id ‘pellucid dots. Flowers regular. Calyx of 4-5 persistent sepals, the : 
outer one lier. Petals 4-5, convolute in the bud, often sprinkled with blac! 
pve ited i Capsule with 
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An order r containing but few genera ; and those of little ‘interest to the Agriculturist,— 
with the exception of the obnoxio ious species ies here noticed, 
1. HYPER’ICUM, L. Sr. Jonn’s-worr. 
A name of obscure derivation and meaning. ] 
recta 5. Petals 5, oblique or unequal-sided. Stamens mostly numer- 
the filaments united at base in 3—5 parcels. : 
eal: sometimes united. Capsule n membranaceous, 3-celled by the 
centae meeting at the axis. Herbaceous or shrubby. Flowers al, 
1. H. Pee, tum, L. Herbaceous ; stem somewhat two-edged ; 
-elliptic, rather obtuse, sessile, pellucid punctate ; flowers in ‘ey 
sagas corymbs ; petals ‘and anthers with dark purple dots ; Sits 3, 
; verging. 
‘PrrroraTep Hypericum. St. John’s-wort. 
‘Fr. Millepertuis. Germ. Das Johannes kraut. Span. Coragoneilo. 
