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Leaves of the common JT., but smaller. Flowers few, small, of a pale yellow, 

 in short, loose, leafy cymes. Sepals oblong, often unequal, entire or with a 

 few glandular teeth, and generally bordered by black dots. Petals scarcely 

 so long, with very few black dots. Stamens few. 



In stony heaths, pastures and bogs, fields and waste places, in central and 

 southern Europe to the Caucasus, extending northward to southern Sweden, 

 and carried out to some other countries with Eui'opean weeds. Frequent 

 iu England and Ireland, less so in Scotland. Fl. summer and autumn. 



7. Flais-leaved Hypericum. Hypericum linariifolinm, Yahl. 

 (Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2851.) 



Intermediate in some measui-e between the trailing H. and the com- 

 man H. ; taller and more erect than the former, much smaller and more 

 slender than the latter, seldom above 8 or 10 inches high. Leaves linear 

 or narrow-oblong, 6 to 8 hues long, rarely marked with pellucid dots, but 

 with a few black ones underneath. Flowers in a loose corymb, larger and 

 brighter than in the trailing H. ; the sepals oblong or broadly lanceolate, 

 with numerous black dots, and a few glandular teeth on the edge. Petals 

 twice or thrice as long as the sepals. Stamens not numerous. 



On dry, hilly wastes and rocky places, in western Spain, Portugal, and 

 France, extending to the Channel Islands and to south-western England, 

 where it has been found at Cape Cornwall, and on the banks of the Teign, 

 in Devonshire. Fl. summer. 



8. Slender Hypericum. Hypericum pulchrum, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1227.) 



Perennial stock shortly decumbent, the stems erect and stiff though 

 slender, 1 to near 2 feet high, with short lateral branches, all perfectly 

 glabrous. Leaves of the main stem broadly cordate and clasping the stem, 

 at the base, seldom above 6 Hnes long, those of the lateral branches smaller 

 and much narrower, aU marked with pellucid dots, but usually without 

 black ones. Flowers rather smaller than in the common H., forming an 

 oblong or pyramidal panicle, not a flat corymb. Sepals broad and obtuse, 

 united to near the middle, without black dots outside, but fringed at the top 

 with black, glandular teeth. 



In dry woods, on open heaths and wastes, almost aU over Europe, but 

 scarcely extending to the Asiatic frontier. Frequent in Britain. Fl. summer. 



9. Hairy Hypericum. Hypericum hirsutum, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1156.) 



A stiff, erect perennial, with an oblong or pyramidal panicle like the 

 slender H., but rather taller, and the stems always more or less downy or hairy. 

 Leaves often above an inch long, oblong or elUptical, narrowed at the base 

 into a very short stalk, more or less hairy underneath on the veins, and 

 marked with numerous pellucid dots. Flowers of the slender H., but of 

 a paler yellow ; the sepals narrow, fringed with rather long, glandular teeth ; 

 the petals full twice as long. 



In woods and thickets, generally spread over Europe and Russian Asia, 

 except the extreme north. Frequent in Britain, Fl. summer. 



10. Mountain Hypericum. Hypericum montanum, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 371.) 

 Stock perennial, the stiff, erect stems about 2 feet high, usually simple, 



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