HYPERICUM HUMIFUSUM AND H. LINARIIFOLIUM 165 
y. obtusisepalum eS in Bol. Soc. Brot. 12, p. 22; H 
linaritfolium Lam. Encycel. 4, p. 180. Port de la var. 8. mais 
sépales elliptiques, obtus ou obtusiuscules, courts; capsule 2 fois 
plus longue que le calice. 
8. radicans Brochon, J. c. goed described.) 
«. montanum Benth. Cat. Pl. Pyr. p. 921. Port et caractéres 
de la var. 8. mais feuilles plus ou ne ponctuées-pellucides. 
oe eee 2 :—H. austRALE Ten. (pro Laer Sylloge, p. 385 ; 
Nap. t 
B. Pi esitelin Rouy ap. Magn. Serinia, 1. c. 
anus nob 
It will be seen that under this classification all of these ar 
form but a single species, presumably on the ground that a 
them are connected by intermediate forms. Of these isitadinins 
Gillot’s var. ambiguum is clearly a eink: between H. humifusum 
and H. linariifoliwm, while var. majus seems more akin to 
H. australe. Gillot’s type (Magnier, No. 2685), which is repre- 
sented in Mr. C. Bailey’s herbarium, is a slender, cone in and 
rather dwarf with leaves as narrow as in some forms of 
ice afi eit sieust that the pean are less unequal 
and varyingly glandular-ciliate throughout. e intermediate 
foliage described both by Gillot and by Rouy & Foucaud is not 
well shown in this oo and is better seen in my Land’s End 
sacenene of 1902, and in a Herts example in Herb. Mus. Brit., 
both of which possess a x whadilne calyx but even more strongly 
guadiie and I think must be placed under this variety. Other 
dwarfer examples.in Herb. Mus. Brit., collected by C. A. Johns at 
the Lizard as H. linariifolium, seem likewise referable ee albeit 
their broader foliage indicates a passage to Us. of 
Siete plants differ essentially from H. restart ory in nee’ smaller 
flowers and shorter styles and capsules. The var. majus, of which 
I have not seen authentic material, is pggiinr: both y Rouy and 
in the Flora Tiepanica as differing from common H. humifusum 
by its robuster and more erect habit, brow sessile leaves, and 
acuter, densely fringed sepals. It seems to lack entirely the 
narrow leaves and large flowers, with ints styles and capsules, 
usually seen in H. linariifolium, and appears “agi to sat 
H; aioe. ae nee wn to occur produce also, or have produced, 
the other species which they respectively Oe it is possible 
that they are really of hybrid origin. 
In contrast to eeone _— the suberect t variety approximatum 
of H. | s from Madeira 
and North-western too — to possess little of the features 
of H, cust Though its leaves are shorter than in Vahl’s 
type, they are equally rors ja and — still more strongly 
rarokats. Its flowers, too, are as large as in any other form of 
H. linariifolium, nore though the capsule is said to be shorter 
