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usually on the under side of the leaves round the edge, or on the flowers 

 themselves. 



Undershrubs, with large ovate leaves, few flowers, broad, round 

 sepals, and stamens in 5 bundles. 



Styles 5. Flowers very large 1. large-flomeredS. 



Styles 3. Petals not much longer than the calyx 2, Tutsan S. 



Herbs with numerous flowers, small or narrow sepals, and stamens 

 in 3 bundles or clusters. 

 Sepah quite entire, or with very few teeth,^ without black dots. 

 Stems erect, above a foot high, bearing a corymb of bright 

 yellow flowers. 

 Stems cylindrical or slightly angled. 



Sepals pointed. Leaves with numerous pellucid dots . . 3. Common S. 

 Sepals blunt. Leaves with few or no pellucid dots . . . i. Imperforate S. 

 Stems distinctly four-sided. 



Sepals broad and blunt, or scarcely pointed 4. Imperforate S. 



Sepals narrow and very pointed. Petals pale yellow . . 5. Square-stalkedS. 

 Stems diffuse, not 6 inches long, and much branched. Flowers 



small, in leafy cymes 6. Trailing S, 



Sepals fringed with black or red glandular teeth or dots. 

 Whole plant perfectly glabrous. 



Stems (.'iSuse, or, if erect, growing in tufts, seldom above 

 6 inches high. 

 Leaves oblong or ovate. Stems low and diffuse .... 6. Trailing S. 



Leaves linear • 7- jFlaa;-leaced S', 



Stems erect and stiff, usually afoot or more high. 



Leaves marked with numerous pellucid dots 8. Slender S. 



Leaves without peUuciu dots, but a few black ones round 



the edge 10. Mountain JET. 



Stems or leaves hairy. 

 Stem tall and erect, sl'ghtly hairy. Leaves oblong or 



elliptical 9. Hairy H. 



Stems diffuse, very wooUy, Leaves orbicular 11. Marsh H. 



Several half-shrubby or shrubby species, from southern Em-ope or the 

 Canary or Azore Islands, are occasionally cultivated in oiu- flower-gar- 

 dens or shrubberies. A supposed British species described by Bertoloni 

 under the name of H. anglicum, appears to have been founded on some 

 mistake. 



1. Iiarge-flo'^ered Hypericum. Hypericum calycinum, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 2017.) 



Rootstock extensively creeping and woody. Stems scarcely a foot high, 

 simple or branching at the base only, with large, almost sessile, ovate or 

 oblong leaves, very obtuse, green and glabrous, with very small pellucid 

 dots. Flowers bright yellow, 3 or 4 inches diameter, one or two at the 

 top of each stem, or, in our gardens, in a corymb of 5 or 6. Sepals nearly 

 6 lines long, orbicular, with longitudinal glandular lines. Stamens very 

 numerous, long and slender, united at the base into 5 bundles. Styles 5. 



A south-east Eiu-opean species, long cultivated ia our gardens, and now 

 naturalized in bushy places in several parts of England and Ireland. Fl. 

 summer. 



2. Tutsan Hypericum. Hypericum Androssemum, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1225, sepah too j)ointed. Tutsan.) 

 Stock short, somewhat woody ; the flowering stems usually numerous, 

 erect, \\ to 2 feet high, simple or slightly branched. Leaves sessile, ovate, 

 obtuse, cordate at tlie base, 2 to 3 inches long, glabrous, with very minute 

 pellucid dots. Flowers few, in small corymbs, shorter than the last pair of 

 leaves. Sepals broad, 3 or 4 lines long. Petals scarcely longer. Stamens 

 uiunerotis, slightly connected at the very base into 5 clusters. Styles 3. 



