HYPERICUM HUMIFUSUM AND H. LINARIIFOLIUM 167 
which - stalked glands of the calyx are more or less wanting, 
while the habit is remarkably robust, with relatively stout and 
rigid recia and broad, subamplexicaul, upper leaves. This will be 
megrne as forma crassw 
ll have been noticed that Rouy & Foucaud do not allude 
to Batard’s var. magnum, which has found its way into recent 
British ee and has been adopted in Dr. Williams’s Prodromus, 
x. p. 561 (1912), in ieee to Peterman’s decumbens. The 
herbarium at Kew posses an immature example under this 
identity of the Kew specimen can well be held a coincidence ‘reas 
no good ground for the adoption of Batard’s name, which it may 
be aoe was simply intended to apply to any bent Big state - 
H. humifusum. A ver say ig’ form of a. genuinum that 
Bitard’s 8 description occurs in poet especially in Wales, a 
a laxum 
or less abundance and be easily recognized - the 
It is possible that all of shies variations of H. ladon —_ 
into each other, but I have seen no Eidbeclil that can be c 
sidered a — from the varieties ambiguum and majus we 
H. linariifolium 
The two species under discussion, with their British varieties, 
may be described as follows. The sign : eget the distribution 
indicates that I have seen the plant in sit 
Hypericum numirusum L. Sp. Pl. ve “785 (1753); Rouy & 
ee Fi. cal iii. - 343 Asie 
y perennial, Arie with numerous arena os ~ 
sometimes broader and daergitoarnie ere all 8 flat or nearly so, 
with distant marginal black dots and usually some poe and 
scattered pellucid glands. Oymes variable, contracted and few- 
