POLYADELPHIA-POLYANDRI A. Hypericum. 323 



very numerous, generally oblong, roughisli, without al- 

 bumen. 

 Perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple, without stipulas^ 

 opposite and entire, full of pellucid dots, lodging an es- 

 sential oil. Pet. yellow, often glandular, deciduous. 



1. H. r.alycinum. Large-flowered St. John's-wort. 



Styles five. Flowers solitary. Stem shrubby, branched, 

 quadrangular. Segments of the calyx obovate, obtuse, 

 permanently spreading. Leaves oblong. 



H. calycinum. Linn.Mant.\Q&. JVilld. v. 3. 1442. Comp.ed.4. 

 125. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. JO. 266. Engl. Bot. v. 29. t. 2017. 

 Curt. Mag. 1. 146 ; excLBauhin'ssyn. Hook. Scot. 22\ . DeCand. 

 Prodr. V. I. 546. Jacq. Fragm. 10. t. 6./. 4. 



Androsaemum constantinopolitanum flora maximo. M^ieler's Jour- 

 ney 205. t. 9. 



A. flore et theca seminali quinquecapsulari omnium maximis, Mo- 

 ris, v. 2. sect. 5. ^ 35./. 2; descr. erroneous. 



In bushy places in the west of Ireland and Scotland. 



Three miles from Cork, in the way to Bandon, very abundantly, 

 and undoubtedly wild. Mr. Drummond. Woods above Largs, 

 on the western coast of Scotland, perfectly indigenous ; Mr. 

 Hopkirk. Hooker. 



Shrub. July — September. 



Root creeping. Stems shrubby, erect, 12 or 18 inches high, with 

 simple leafy square branches, smooth like every other part. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, varying in bluntness, coriaceous, ever- 

 green, about 2 inches long, on very short stalks. Fl. 2 or 3 

 inches wide, of a bright golden yellow, with innumerable, red- 

 dish, tremulous anthers. Pet. often lobed at one side. Styles 

 sometimes but 4. 



A great ornament to shrubberies and parks, excellent as a shelter 

 for game, and bearing any cold of our climate. 



2. H. Androsamum. Tutsan, or Park leaves. 

 Styles three. Capsule pulpy. Stem shrubby, compressed. 



H. Androssemum. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 1 02. Willd. v. 3. 1 446. Fl. Br. 



800. Engl. Bot. v. 1 8. t. 1225. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. t. 48. Hook. 



Scot. 22\. 

 H. maximum, Androsaemum vulgare dictum. Raii Syn. 343. 

 Androsaemum. Dod. Fempt. 78. f. Dalech. Hist. 1 156./. 2. 

 A. maximum, quasi frutescens, bacciferum. Moris, v. 2. 472. sect. 5. 



t. 6./ 12. 

 A. maximum frutescens. Bauh. Pin. 280. 

 A. officinale. Allion. Fed. v. 2. 47. DeCand. Prodr. v. 1 . 543. 

 Civmenon Italorum. Ger. Em. 543./. Loh. Ic. 632./. 



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