30 HYPERICACES. (ST. JOHN’S-WORT FAMILY.) 
1. C. Menziesii, Hook. Smooth, branching from the base, the stems ascending; 
leaves linear to oblanceolate, 1 to 3 inches long, the lower on slender petioles; sepals. 
keeled, the calyx 4-angled in the bud; petals broadly obovate, red to purple, 2 to 6 lines 
lorg. One of the most abundant of open ground early flowers. 
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2. CLAYTONIA, L. 
Petals 5, equal. Stamens 5. Style 3-cleft. Capsule and seeds as in Calandrinia. 
Radical leaves numerous; cauline perfoliate, or a pair. 
1. C, perfoliata, Donn. Stems 2 to 12 inches high; radical leaves long-petioled, 
broadly rhomboidal, or deltoid, or deltoid-cordate, 4 to 3 inches broad, obtuse; the cauline 
pair usually united to form an almost orbicular perfoliate leaf, concave above; the lax 
raceme of small pinkish flowers nearly sessile in the leaf-cup. 
Var. parviflora, Torr. Radical leaves linear, or linear-spatulate. 
Var. spathulata, Torr. Radical leaves linear; the cauline pair distinct or partly 
united on one side, ovate to lanceolate. Low and slender. 
Var. exigua, Torr. Low, radical leaves narrowly linear or filiform; the cauline 
distinct, linear. 
2. C. Siberica, L. Stems 6 to 15 inches high; radical leaves lanceolate to rombic-. 
ovate or nearly orbicular, long-petioled; the cauline pair ovate or varying from lanceolate 
to spatulate-obovate, sessile, distinct; raceme loose; the rose-colored or white petals 2 to. 
¢ lines long. 
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3. LE WISIA, Pursh. 
Petals 8 to 16, large and showy, rose-colored. Stamens numerous (40 or more). Style 
3 to 8-parted nearly to the base. Low acaulescent fleshy perennials, with fusiform roots, 
and short 1-flowered scapes. 
1, L. rediviva, Pursh. Leaves densely clustered, linear-oblong, subterete, 1 or 2 
joches long, smooth and glaucous; scape jointed in the middle, bearing on the joint 5 to 
7 subulate verticillate bracts; petals sometimes white, 8 to 16 lines long, 
Oxper 12. HYPHRICACEHZ. 
Herbs or shrubs, with opposite entire punctate leaves, no stipules and perfect flowers 
with 4 or 5 petals and numerous stamens, the fruit a septicidal many-seeded capsule. 
Calyx of 4 or 5 persistent sepals. Filaments mostly in 3 sets. Styles 2 to 5, usually: 
distinct. 
1. HYPERICUM, L. Sr. JoHN’s-wort. 
Sepals and petals 5. The numerous stamens in three bundles. Ovary 1 to 3-celled, 
the ovules growing on the parietal placentez. Flowers cymose, yellow. 
