162 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
east side of Ben Douran, from 2800 ft. to 3000 ft. Boots were 
sent — ae I Bete to test it by cultivation. Said glaucous. 
P.n *Parnellit Hoo 8. Rocks on 
the alive side of An Caistoh at 9300 ft. ; the i name was suggested 
by Mr. S. H. Bickham, and Mr. Bennett concurs. 
BRITISH FORMS OF 
HYPERICUM HUMIFUSUM AND H. LINARIIFOLIUM. 
By H. W. rape B.A. 
uy & Fou é France showed ee t they were not 
always so aietiast as I aaa thought, and a wider experience has 
since convinced me that in Britain, as abroad, both plants are very 
variable. I will now attempt to define the different forms with 
which on ends may be credited. 
m humifusum was described by Linnzeus (Sp. Plant. 
p. 785 (1753)) as “floribus trigynis, caulibus ancipitibus prostratis,” 
with citations from Haller (H. humifusum foliis pegyens punetis 
m margine nigris), Bauhin, and Clusius, which suffice to show that 
the name has been correctly interpreted by sea authors. 
specimen one 3 in the Linnean Herbarium, moreover, which 
confirms this view. It is a small, prostrate plant, with many 
ho 
sequalibus sepe quaternis.” The figure shows a dwarf erect 
plant, branched itroughou, closely resembling H. humifusum in 
foliage and flo 
The following year H. linaritfolium was published in Vahl’s 
Symb. Bot. i, p. 65. This was described “ H. linarifolium calyci- 
bus else, coe: fore eee foliis linearibus obtusis 
glabris. H. lusitanicum @ folio Tourn. Inst. R. H. p. 256. 
In Bajona et eam Hace Gaulis supra radicem lignosus, 
teres, levissimus, tenuis, simplicissimus, interdum basi remotus ; 
