160 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Sepals elliptical-oblong, obtuse at tbe apex, fringed ^vith crimson 

 stalked glands. Petals three times as long as the sepals, without 

 black dots. Styles shorter than the capsule. Capsule scarcely 

 twice as long as the sepals, with each valve marked with several 

 vittae. 



In spongy bogs and shallow ditches and drains in moory ground. 

 Rather common in the South of England and West of Scotland, 

 though absent from the East of Scotland and North-East of 

 England. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial, Summer. 



Rootstock passing insensibly into the creeping base of the 

 stem, and branching extensively. The stem is from 3 to 15 inches 

 long, generally simple, but sometimes -with a few branches. The 

 leaves are mostly crowded, -I to 1 inch long. Bracts very small, 

 deltoid, fringed like the sepals. Cyme few-flowered, frequently 

 appearing lateral from the subsequent growth of an axillary branch 

 resembling a continuation of the main stem ; occasionally there 

 are a few cyme-bearing branches produced below the terminal cyme, 

 which give the inflorescence a paniculate appearance. Elowers 

 pale buff-yellow, ^ inch across. Stamens much shorter than the 

 petals, vdth the filaments united beyond the middle, the bundles 

 with small petaloid scales alternating with them. Leaves flaccid, 

 yellowish-green. Plant more or less thickly clothed with shaggy 

 hairs. 



Marsh St. John's Wort. 



French, MiUep&rtuis dea Marais. German, Sump/ Hart/ien. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



HYPERICUM BARBATUM. Jacg. 



E. B. eA i. No. 19S6. 



Said to have been found by Mr. G. Don " by the side of a hedge 

 near the wood of Aberdalgy, in Strathearn, in Perthshire." No 

 one has found it since ; and if it ever occurred there it was doubtless 

 an escape from cultivation, as it is most unlikely that an Austrian 

 plant, not occLirring in Scandinavia, Prance, or North Germany, 

 could be wild in Scotland. 



