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plant collected by C. A. Johns at the Lizard is essentially similar, 
but approaches var. majus Rouy by its broader foliage. 
Hypericum Linariirotium Vahl, Symb. Bot. i. p. 65 (1790) ; 
H. humifusum subsp. linaritfoliwm buoy ap. Magn. Scrinia, p. 245 
(1892); Rouy & Foucaud, l. c., p. 345. 
Perennial, glabrous, with more or less numerous erect or sub- 
erect, rather slender and n normally unbranched flowering-stems 
springing from the rootstock, and reais also prostrate filiform 
barren stems, with rudimentary leaves, which may root at the 
nodes and form new tufts. Stems snr or with two generally 
obscure raised lines. Leaves linear to oblong, rounded-obtuse, 
sessile and semi-amplexicaul, but the lower ones less so; often 
revolute; with black m marginal dots; pellucid re wanting. 
Besson subcorymbose, often many-flowered; bracts glandular- 
ciliate. gph seer than in H. humifusum, Opal about 
mm. in ally 
as the sepals, sometimes drab ot ith red on the back. Stam 
about 30. Styles about 4mm. long. Capsules ovoid- senate, 
twice as long as the sepals or even longer. 
a, genuinum. H. humi, ae subsp. linarisfolium a. genuinum 
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Ezsicc. Magnier, FL. Sel. 2 2686 ! 
Erect or nearly so, with terete stems 20-40 cm. long or rarely 
still longer. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, 20-30 mm. long and 
2-5 mm. broad, normally rather distant. Cymes many-flowered, 
siento rather lax. 
8. approzimatum. H. humifusum subsp. linariifolium B. ap- 
carrey Rouy ap. Magn. Scrin. p. 245; Rouy & Foucaud, 
Icon. Eng. Bot. Suppl. 2851 (as H. linariifolium). 
ae py i Pl. Mader. 1865-66, 39 (as H. linariifoliwm) | 
— rom a decumbent base, with slenderer stems 
10-25 ¢ pa generally showing 2 obscure rar lines. Leaves 
linear- colin or oblong, 10-15 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, often 
strongly revolute, — crowded. oe onealy mete contracted 
and with fewer flowers than in 
H. linaritfolium i ie a rare plant i in Britain as on the Continent. 
e var. genuinum is found in the Dartmoor district of South 
Hanbury on the cliffs near Dartmouth. The var. approzimatum 
formerly grew on Cape Cornwall, and seems - — also inhabited 
one or two other Qarnish localities, but has now almost certainly 
become extinct in the county. It still occurs ware soarval in several 
places on the cliffs of the Channel Islands ! 
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