84 HVPEEICACE.E. [Andros(Emuin . 



In woods and hedges ; very rare. F/. July, August. I?. j r^ i 



In considerable plenty in a patch of thicket betweeu Wilmingham and lapnel 

 farms, appearing to be perfectly wild there, but from having been cut as opse- 

 wood not permitted to attain a flowering size. The copse I am told is called 

 Stark Net or E. Aflon withy-bed, and the cottage nearly opposite it Tapnel cot- 

 tage. 



T. Europea, L., is found here and there in hedges, but scarcely in any place 

 where it can be deemed wild. There are two or three small trees (kept lopped) in 

 a small thicket near Perreton apparently of this species or variety. 



Order XVII. HYPEEICACE^, Juss. 



" Sepals 4 — 5, distinct or cohering, persistent, fcequently with 

 glandular dots. Petals 4 — 5, with a twisted ffistivation and often 

 black dots. Stamens numerous (15 or more), polyadelphous, 

 rarely monadelphous or quite distinct. Anthers small, versatile. 

 Ovary single. Styles 3 — 5, rarely combined. Stigmas simple. 

 Fruit a capsule of several valves, rarely baccate, several-celled (or 

 imperfectly so by the valves being curved inwards, and scarcely 

 meeting in the axis), or 1 -celled : dehiscence septicidal. Seeds 

 minute, numerous, on a receptacle in the axis, or on the incurved 

 margins of the valves. Embryo straight. Albumen 0. — Herbs 

 or shrubs, ivith generally opposite leaves, mostly marked with pel- 

 lucid dots and commonly yelloiv flowers." — Br. Fl. 



I. Andeos^mum, Allioni. Tutsan. 



" Calyx 5-partite, the lobes unequal. Petals 5. Stamens 

 numerous, united at the base. Styles 3." — Macreight's Man. of 

 Brit. Bot. 



1. A. officinale, All. Common Tutsan. Park-leaves. Stem 

 shrubby or (partly) sufiruticose subcompressed and ancipital, 

 leaves cordato - ovate obtuse, cymes trichotomous few-fiowered, 

 sepals unequal ovate about as long as the obtuse petals, ger- 

 men globose, styles 3 shorter than the stamens, capsules sub- 

 globose. Hypericum Androssemum, L. Br. Fl. p. 79. E. B. t. 

 1325. 



In woods, thickets, copses, moist shady groves, hedges and bushy places ; very 

 frequent, though seldom in any quantity together. Fl. June— August. Fr. Sep- 

 tember, October. Tj . 



E. Med. — Extremely common in woods by the shore on the West side of 

 Wootton river at its mouth, between that and King's Quay, also in woods about 

 the Priory near Ryde, very frequent. In the patches of copse-wood to the West 

 of and below Aldermoor larm, sparingly. In a field-hedge by Stroud wood, in 

 comparative plenty. Frequent in thickets about Appuldurcombe, and in the high 

 wood in the Park. Plantations nearly at the back of the GriflSn inn, Godshill. 

 In a sandy hollow way near Upper and Lower Rill farms, on a spot where three 

 loads meet. Quarr copse. Af]se Castle, near Shanklin. 



W. il/ff/.— Thoiness wood. Kingston copse. Frequent in Burnt wood. 



