120 Tennessee Flora. 



HYPERICUM L. 



Hypericum Kalmianum L. St. John's wort. Typical low 

 form. Cumberland Mts. Mrs. Lydia Bennett. 



H. Kalmianum Majus. Stout shrubs, 5 to 7 feet high. 

 Oak barrens at Tullahoma, Coffee County. July. 

 V p. prolificum L. Cleveland, E. Tenn. Craggie Hope, 

 Cheatham County. July-September. 



H. densiflorum Pursh. Post Oak Springs, Roane County. 

 Hiwassee Valley. A. Ruth. July-September. 



H. galioides L. Along water courses in siliceous ground. 

 Frequent in E. Tenn. June, July. 



H. adpressum Bart. Wild-goose pond near Mitchellville, 

 Sumner County. July-September. 



H. sphaerocarpum^ Michx. Frequent in the barrens of M. 

 Tenn. Also in E.Tenn. July-September. 



H. dolabriforme Vent. Chilhowee Mt., Parksville. Dry, 

 gravelly hills, east of Cleveland, E. Tenn. July, August. 



H. virgatum Lam. H. angulbsum Michx. Damp places in 

 the oak barrens at Tullahoma. Var. acutifoliuni Coult. With 

 the former. 



H. perforatum L. Common St. John's wort. Waste places. 

 Uncommon. Introduced. June. 



iH. maculatum Walt.. H. corymbosum Michx. An abun- 

 dant weed in fields. O. S. July-September. 



H. graveolens Buckl. Summit of Thunderhead. White 

 Top Mt, S. W. Va. J. K. Small. June, July. 



H. mutilum L. Edge of pools. O. S. June, July. 



H. gymn.anthum Engdm. & Gray. Barrens of M. Tenn. 

 July. 



H. Canadense L. Cumberland Mts. July-September. 



H. Drummondii T. & G. Belvedere, Franklin County. 

 July-September. 



*H. lobocarpum Gattinger. Hollow Rock, W. Tenn. July, 

 August. 



H. glomeratum J. -K. Small. I suppose to be the same as 



*H, lobocarpum Gattinger. n. sp. Sepals, linear-lanceolate, small, 

 unequal, l%-3 lines long; petals, unequal, unsymmetric, 3-6 lines long, 

 reflected, early deciduous; capsule, five-celled, deeply five-Iobed, lance- 

 olate, tapering into a long beak; carpels, almost distinct, and at full 

 maturity falling away from a central axis; seeds, 1 mm. long, incurved, 

 apiculate, striate lengthwise, transversely grooved; leaves, linear, ob- 

 tuse, slightly mucronate, attenuaite downward, pale underneath. Shrub 

 5-7 feet high, with upright branches. Low, swampy lands in the Orange 

 Sand formation at Hollow Rock, Carroll County, W. Tenn. First col- 

 lected in fruit in 1867, and again in July, 1886, in flower, in very 

 swampy. ground. I have since received specimens of a Hypericum la- 

 beled H. prolificum, " collected by D. H. B. Hasse, of Little Rock, Ark., 

 in wet pine barrens," which proved to be the same speoies. M. 



