Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
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they are five or fix inches long, and for the moft 
part trail or lie upon the ground. 
_ The leaves ftand in pairs, and are of a roun- 
difh figure, not unlike thofe of moneywort, but 
fmaller. 
The flowers are very large and beautiful : they 
are numerous ; they ftand on flender footftalks at 
the top of the feveral ftalks, and are of a bright 
yellow ; and their feveral petals, as well as the 
fegments of the cup, are ferrated. : 
The feed-veflel is large, and the feeds are fmall 
and brown. ; 
The ftyles in the flower of this fpecies are 
three, and the cells are three in the capfule: 
It is an extremely elegant fpecies. 
It is a native of the Pyrenzan mountains, 
where it hangs among the wet rocks, It flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Hypericum nummularia folio 
and others have for the moft part followed him, 
the leaves {peaking the refemblance. 
5. Little heath-leaved Saint John’s wort. 
Hypericum parvum ericoides. 
This is an extremely fingular and pretty little 
plant. 
The root is long, flender, redifh, and has 
many fibres: they are numerous, weak, and 
very fmall: they are crowned with leaves, and 
they fend out many fhort and flender branches. 
The leaves are narrow, longifh, and harfh to 
the touch: their colour is a dufky green, and 
they entirely cover the lower parts of the ftalks. 
The top of each ftalk is naked, or, in other 
words, there rife from the extremities of thefe 
leafy ftalks flender twigs which fupport’ the 
flowers. 
Thefe are numerous, fmall, and of a pale 
yellow. 
The feed-veffel is longith and fmall; and the 
feeds are very minute, and brown. 
There are three ftyles in the flower, and three 
cells in the capfule. 
It is a native of Spain and Portugal; and 
flowers in autumn. 
Plukenet calls it Hypericum ericoides minimum 
Solis cinereis. : 
6. Large-floweerd Saint John’s wort. 
Hypericum flove magno. 
The root is long, flender, divided into feveral 
parts, and furnifhed with many long fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, upright, brown, 
hard, and bitter : they area foot high, and rarely 
are at all branched. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and they ftand 
at fmall diftances one pair from another. 
They are of a firm fubftance and deep green 
colour, and of an oval fhape; broadeft at the 
bottom, where they adhere without footftalks ; 
and fmaller to the end, where they terminate 
obtufely. 
The flowers are very large and beautiful: they 
are of a fine yellow, and they ftand in confide- 
rable numbers on the tops of the ftalks. 
The feed-veffel is round, and the feeds are 
fmall and brown. 
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The ftyles are three in this fower; and the — 
cells three in the capfule. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Afcyrum magno  flore. 
Wheeler, Hypericum montis Olmpi; a name 
adopted by moft others. ° 
7. Oriental Tutfan. 
Hypericum flore et theca maximis. 
The root is flender, and {preads under the 
furface. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and a foot or 
more in length: they never rife properly ere&, 
nor do they lie upon the ground, but always 
ftand ftooping. 
The leaves are placed regularly in pairs, and 
they are very large, of a figure refembling thofe 
of the laurel, of a pale green colour, and per- 
fectly even at the edges. z 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalk, and 
are very confpicuous by their fize; for they are 
as large as a rofe, and of a very beautiful yellow, 
and full of threads of the fame yellow in the 
centre. 
The feed-veffel is very large, and of a pointed 
form. — 
The ftyles in this plant are five; and the cap- 
fule is accordingly divided into five cells. 
It is a native of the Faft, and of fome parts 
of America. 
Ray calls it ndrofemum Conftantinopolitanum 
lore maximo. . 
Morifon, Androfemum flore et theca quingne cap- 
Julari_omnium maximis, Our gardeners call it 
Tutfan, Great Saint Fobn’s wort; and fome of 
them, the Ground rofe, or the Yellow rofe. 
8. Stinking Saint John’s wort. 
Hypericum fatidum ftaminibus longiffimis. 
The root is long, thick, divided, and fpread- 
ing. 
The ftalk is fhrubby, hard, upright, very 
much branched, covered with a brown bark, and 
brittle. ; ; { 
The leaves ftand in pairs: they are of a pale 
green, and have no footftalks: they are broad, 
oblong, and pointed at the ends. 
The flowers are large and numerous: they 
ftand at the extremities of the branches : they are 
of a beautiful yellow; and they are diftinguithed 
by a peculiar mark, which is, that the threads 
are longer than the petals, and ftand in a great 
bufh, in manner of a beard. : 
The feed-veffél is roundith, and pointed: the 
feeds are brown. : 
The ftyles in this flower are five; and the 
capfule is accordingly divided into five cells. 
It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, 
and of the Eaft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Androfemum fetidum capi- 
tulis longiffimis filamentis donatis, Dillenius, Hy- 
pericum fatidum frutefcens minus; and Clufius, 
Tragium. Our gardeners call it Shrub Saing 
John’s wort, and Stinking tutfan; and fome, from 
the threads, Bearded tutfan. 
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