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3. Small procumbent Saint John’s wort. 
E]ypericum procumbens minus. 
The root is flender, long, and woody. 
The ftalks are numerous, and fome of them he 
upon the ground ; others rife tolerably upright : 
they are four or five inches high, and edged like 
thofe of the common Saint Fobn’s wort, and of a 
yellowith colour. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, at moderate diftances 
one pair from another ; and they are fmall, ob- 
long, pointed, and of a faint green. 
The flowers are large, and of a bright yellow : 
they grow on the tops of the ftalks, and of their 
branches and divifions. 
The feed-veffel is fmall, and the feeds are nu- 
merous and minute. 
The ftyles in the flower of this fpecies are three, 
and the feed-veffel is divided into three eells. 
It is common in barren paftures, and flowers in 
July. 
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C. Bauhine calls it Hypericum minus Jupinun, 
Jive fupinum glabrum, Ne, Trailing Saint Fobu’s 
wort, 
4. Broad-leaved hairy Saint John’s wort. 
Eypericum erecium latifolium hirfutum, 
The root is long, large, woody, and {preading, 
The ftalk is thick, firm, upright, very little 
branched, and of a brownifh colour. 
The leaves ftand'in pairs ; and they are large, 
oblong, and of a brownifh green, and hairy : 
they are broadeft toward the bafe, and diminifh 
to a point, and they have fhort footftalks. 
The flowers are numerous, large, and of a 
pale yellow: they ftand at the tops of the ftalks, 
and have flender pedicles. 
The feed«veflel is large, and the feeds are 
brown. 
The ftyles are three in the flower of this fpe- 
cies, and the feed-veffel is accordingly divided 
into three cells. 
It is common by road fides, and flowers in 
Augutt. 
C. Bauhine calls it Androfemum birfutum, and 
J. Bauhine, Hypericum androfemum diftum. Thefe 
are very improper names, for there is another 
fpecies altogether different from this, properly 
called tutfan and androfemum, to be defcribed 
hereafter. 
5- Broad-leaved, fmooth Saint John’s wort. 
Hypericum latifolium glabrum. 
The root is long, divided, crooked, hard, and 
redith. 
The ftalk is upright, fingle, not at all branched 
or divided, and a foot and a half high, and of a 
pale, bluifh-green colour. 
The leaves ftand in pairs at confiderable dif 
tances: they are very large and broad ; they have 
no footftalks, their bafes join at the ftalk, and 
they are of a pale bluith green, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ‘ftalks on 
fender pedicles: they are large, and of a very 
beautiful yellow. 
The feed-veffel alfo is large, and the feeds are 
fmall and brown, 
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The ftyles in the flower of this fpecies are 
three, and the feed-veffel is accordingly dividec 
into three cells, 
It is not common in England, except in the 
northern counties; but there are fome plants of 
it in Charlton wood, near Woolwich, 
It flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bavhine calls it Afiyron, five hypericum bi- 
folium glabrum non perforatum. Columna, An- 
drofemum campoclarente. 
beautiful plant. 
Linnzus makes this and the former fpecies only 
varieties of the fame plant. He muft have beers 
mifled by the bad figures of authors; for it is im- 
poffible he fhould have faid this, if he had ever 
feen this fpecies : the other is common. 
The leaves in this fpecies are not full of holes, 
as in the common Saint Yobn’s wort; but fre- 
quently the underfide of them is beautifully dotted 
with red fpots, difpofed regularly of the edge. 
It is an extremely 
6. Tutfan. 
Hypericum maximum androfomum diétum. : 
The root is hard, woody, long, redifh, and 
divided into many parts. 
The ftalks are numerous, firm, hard, of a 
pale green, and edged: they are two feet and z 
half high, and frequently are branched, though 
fometimes they rife almoft fingle. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and are very large : 
they are broadeft at the bafe, and terminate ob- 
tufely: their colour is a dead green in the firft 
part of fummer, but frequently the whole plant 
turns of a blood-red toward autumn, 
‘The flowers ftand in clufters at the tops of the 
ftalks: they are large and yellow. : 
The feed-veffel is of an oval form ; and, being 
foft and juicy, has the appearance of a berry. 
It is frequent in many parts of England under 
fhady hedges, and flowers in Augutt. 
C, Bauhine calls it Androfemum maximum fru 
tefcens. Ray, Hypericum maximum androfemum 
vulgare diftum. 
This fpecies poffeffes the virtue of a vulne- 
rary in a degree even fuperior to the common 
Saint Fonn’s wort. One of the young leaves 
wrapped round a cut-finger, or fpread evenly 
over a deep frefh wound, will cure it without any 
other application. 
This I am affured by the Lady of Gen. Ogle. 
thorpe, from her repeated experience, 
7. Saint Peter’s wort, 
Hypericum caule eretto quadrangulo afcyron difyw, 
The root is long and fpreading : it creeps un- 
der the furface, and has a multitude of fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, {quare, upright, fel- 
dom at all branched, and about a foot high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs at confiderable 
diftances, and have no footftalks: they are of 
an oval figure, and obtufe, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, on 
| feparate, flender pedicles, and are of a bright 
yellow. 
The feed-veffels are large, and the feeds mi: 
nute. 
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