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minal cymose, stems ascending terete, sepals slightly unequal all 

 lanceolate acute their margins with numerous (black) spots and 

 glandular serratures, leaves linear obtuse the margins revolute. 

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Cape Cornwall : on dry slopes of hills in several parts of Jersey, 

 particularly on a hill between Ann Port and St. Catherine's Bay : 

 banks of the Teign, Tamar, and Tavy, Devon. 2/.. 7, 8. — Flowers 

 small. Stem procumbent below. Stamens SO or more. H, humi' 

 fusum differs from this by its prostrate slightly two-edged stems ; 

 oblong, obtuse, and mucronate sepals ; oval-oblong leaves ; smaller 

 flowers; fewer stamens; broader capsules and shorter styles. BaK 



8. H.pulchrum L. (small upright St J.) ; sepals broadly ovate 

 obtuse with (black) glandular serratures, stem erect glabrous, 

 leaves cordate amplexicaul glabrous. E, JB- 1. 1227. 



Dry woods and heaths, frequent, 

 slender, erect, rigid, branched. 



11 . 6, 7. — Stejn 1 — 2 ft. high. 



Flowers beautiful, in loose panicles, 

 yellow, tipped, before expansion, with red. Anthers red. 



9. H. hirsutum L. {hairy St. J.) ; sepals lanceolate acute with 

 (black) glandular serratures, stem erect terete pubescent, 

 leaves ovate or oblong slightly stalked somewhat downy beneath. 

 jB.^.t. 1156. 



Woods and thickets, especially in a chalky soil. 1}.. 7j 8. — Stem 

 2 ft. high. Leaves rather large, more or less downy, especially beneath. 



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10. li. montdnum L. (Mountain St. J.) ; flowers paniculato- 

 corymbose, sepals lanceolate acute with (black) glandular ser- 

 ratures, stem erect terete and as well as the ovate leaves 



E. J5. t. 371. 



glabrous. 



Bushy hills, in England, especially in a chalky or gravelly soil, but 

 not common. 2/.. 7, 8. — Stem 1|- — 2 ft. high. Leaves rather large, 

 more or less perforated, distant, especially above ; furnished with black 

 glandular dots near the margins. Bracteas and calyx beautifully 

 fringed with shortly-stalked glands. Petals without dots or glands. 



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11. H. *barbdtum Jacq. (bearded St. J-) ; corymbs terminal, 

 sepals lanceolate fringed with long-stalked glands, stem erect 

 terete, leaves ovate with (black) scattered dots Beneath, 

 E. B. t, 1986. 



Side of a hedge near Aberdalgie in Strathearn, Perthshire : G. Don. 

 ^. 9, 10. — Stem 1 ft, or more high. Very distinct in the long 

 glandular hairs of its calgx. Petals copiously dotted, often toothed or 

 ciliated at the extremity. Capsule transversely wrinkled. We possess 

 a specimen from Don ; but we do not believe that this species was 

 ever found wild in Scotland. \ 



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