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The “B R*I-T 1S H*’ H E’R'BIA L. 
The ftyles in the flower of this plant are three, 
and the feed-veffel is accordingly divided into 
three cells. : 
It is common in damp ‘places, and flowers in 
June. 
J. Bauhine calls it Hypericum afcyrum diftum 
cattle quadrangulo. Others, Afeyrum, and Afeyron 
vulgare. 
Its virtues are the fame with thofe of Swint 
Fobn’s wort. 
8. Woolly Marth Saint John’s wort. 
Hypericum fupinum villofum paluftre. 
This is commonly called a fpecies of Saist 
Peter’s wort; but 1 have obferved before, thar 
the diftin@tion of that as a genus is idle, and not 
fupported in nature. 
DL VeTsS leOeNne Il. 
1. Spanifh Saint John’s wort. 
Hypericum tomentofum calycibus ferratis. 
The root is long, flender, brown, and hung 
with a few fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, redifh, and 
feven or eight inches long: they trail upon the 
ground, and are not branched. 
The leaves are placed in pairs: they are of an 
oval fhape, approaching to heart-fafhioned, of a 
greyifh white colour, and very hoary. . 
The flowers are numerous and fmall: they ftand 
on long and very flender pedicles rifing from the 
tops of the ftalks, ten or a dozen together, and 
they are of a bright yellow : their cup is ferrated, 
and glandulous. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are very 
fmall and brown, 
This fpecies has three ftyles in the flower, and 
the capfule is divided into three cells. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls ic Hypericum fupinum tomento- 
Jum, but he erroneoufly makes two fpecies of it, 
a greater and a lefier. He had feen it larger in 
Spain, and fmaller in France; but there was no 
ether difference. 
2. Perfoliate Saint John’s wort. 
Hypericum perfoliatum, 
The root is compofed of a number of thick, 
black fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, and a foot 
and a half high: ic is ufually red toward the 
bottom, and elfewhere of a‘ pale green. 
The leaves are broad, and of a fhape approach- 
ing to triangular: they meet at the bafe, and the 
fialk feems to pafs through them: the feveral 
" pairs are placed at diftances with great regularity : 
they are of a deep green, and.ofa firm fubftance ; 
and, when held up to the light, they are found 
full of holes, in the manner of the common Saint 
Fobn’s wort, toward the bottom the leaves are 
fmall; they are largeft-about- the middle of the 
fialk, and grow fmaller again to the top. 
The flowers ftand on long footftalks at the top 
FOREIGN 
The root is fmall, and fpreading. , 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and procum- 
bent: they are of a whitifh colour, and are ten 
inches or a foot long. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and they are of 
a’ roundifh figure: they are foft to the touch, 
white, and covered with a woolly down, 
The flowers ftand on flender footftalks at the 
tops of the ftalks, and rife from the bofoms of 
the upper leaves ; and they are large, and of a 
beautiful yellow. 
The feed-veffels are roundifh, and the feeds 
minute and brown. 
It is not uncommon on rotten, wet, and boggy 
ground, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it A/cyron fupinum villofum pa- 
luftre. 
SPECIES 
of the plant ; and they are large, and of a beauti- 
ful yellow. 
The feed-veffel is oval, and the feeds are mi- 
nute and brown. 
This fpecies has three ftyles in the flower, and 
the cells of the feed-veffel are three. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Androfemum perforatum & 
perfoliatum. Columna, Androfemum  alterum 
apulum. 
3. Cluftered-leaved Saint John’s wort. 
Hypericum foliis numerofis. 
The root is long, thick, and: furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are hard, woody, upright, and very 
thick fet with leaves: they are of a redifh colour 
toward the bottom, and of a pale green toward 
the top. 
The leaves are oblong, and very narrow: they 
do not grow in regular pairs, as in the other fpe- 
cies of Saint Fobn’s wort, but feem to farround 
the ftalk as thofe of the ftellate plants, like the 
rays of a flar: however, they ufually grow three 
together, and the reft are young fhoots from the 
bofoms of thefe. 
The flowers are large, and of a beautiful yel- 
low: they ftand at the tops of the ftalks, on fmall, 
flender pedicles. 
The feed-veffel is laree and oval, and the feeds 
are fmall and brown. 
This fpecies has three ftyles in the flower, and 
the feed-veffel has three cells. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Eypericoides coris quibufdam. 
Others, Coris lutea, and Coris Mathich. Our 
people call it Heath Pine, and Low Pine, fometimes 
Coris. 
As Moneywort leaved Saint John’s wort. 
Hypericum nummularie foliis. 
The root is fmall; oblong; crooked, ‘ rédifh, 
and furnithed with many fibres. 
The ftalks are. numerous, weak, and redifh: 
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