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HYPERICUM HUMIFUSUM AND H. LINARIIFOLIUM 169 
root at the nodes. Leaves 6-20 mm. long and 4-6 mm. broad. 
Sepals less unequal than in a. genuinwm, usually more —— yer 
black, the larger ones oblong or lanceolate, subacute or acute, 
more or less serrulate-fimbriate with stalked black acta ea 
the apex. Petals exceeding the larger sepals. 
b. eglandulosum, nov. form. Sepalis plus minusve serrulatis 
sine glandulis nigris petiolatis. 
Is more or less serrulate, but without stalked black 
glands. 
c. crassum, nov. form. Caules stricti quam in formis pre- 
cedentibus crassiores; folia marginibus paulo revolutis crassa, 
superiora latiora semi-amplexicaulia ; sepala raro glandulis nigris 
n=l vix serrulata. 
a. a igen Gio in Rev. Bot. x. p. 653 (1892); Rouy & 
Foucand, le 
Exsi | ace Fl. Sel. 2685 ! 
Stems suberect or niger are from a decumbent base, more o 
a slender, etioet . long, from an irregularly branched Seb. 
Leavy 5 615. mm. long and 2-4 mm. broad, sometimes 
autor shal in the preceding varieties and often with revolute 
margins, shortly narrowed below or semi-amplexicaul, almost 
without pellucid glands. Uppermost bracts sometimes sparingly 
seve ong sae co not very ae all cigar gn 
with few any black dots and streaks, and m r les 
spicidate flea Pinar with stalked black glands, ssencely 
8. 
pscenond in fruit. Petals distinctly longer than the 
sania humifusum, which is a plant seechitig: Teht soils 
and o rely seen in any abundance, is generally distributed 
throughout the British Isles and has been recorded for nearly 
every vine soared 3 in Great Britain. The commonest form is the 
Linnean type (a. triage and of this the form laxum is repre- 
sented i in Herb. C. Bailey from East Sussex, oe Merioneth, 
Carnarvon, Lancashire, and Yorkshire. The variety Liottardi, 
reported from Kent and Cheshire, needs confirm birt as . British 
plant, but var. decumbens is widely speed lovee as f. eglan- 
dulosum), occurring, generally in pots, in e Channel 
Islands !, West Cornwall!, along ihe ype coast ro Kent, in 
Surrey !, “Bucks, Hunts, Gloucester, Midand North Wales, Derby, 
Yorkshire and the Lake District to Kirkcudbright and Bute, in 
Scotland. Of the ue forth crassum, Mr. rae possesses 
varie m grows near Land’s End!, and there 
is an Seinids identical specimen in Herb. Mus. Brit. from 
ee Wood, Herts (F. Parker, 1882 me and another in Herb. 
C. Bailey from Blackhea’ h Common, C ilworth, Surrey. The 
JOURNAL OF arcs 53. (June, 1915.] te) 
