LHHypericince—Hypericum. Ws 
commonly seen in gardens. It is a prostrate creeping shrubby 
plant with oblong obtuse coriaceous glossy leaves with very 
small pellucid dots, and large terminal bright yellow flowers 
3 to 4 inches in diameter. July to September. A native of 
South-eastern Europe, occasionally met with in this country as 
a waif or outcast from gardens. 
2. H. hirenwm.—A much-branched shrub 3 to 4 feet 
high. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, quite entire, about 2 
inches long; glands scattered, linear. Flowers yellow, 14 inch 
in diameter, borne in small terminal cymes. A pretty shrub, 
often remaining in bloom till the end of October. Native of 
the South of Europe. This species emits a peculiar goat-like 
odour when rubbed. 
3. H. Androsémum. Tutsan, Sweet Amber.—A native 
erect shrubby species about 2 feet high, with ovate subcordate 
leaves having numerous very minute glandular dots. Flowers 
yellow, 6 to 8 lines in diameter, in terminal clustered cymes. 
4. H. elatwm.—vVery near the last, but in this the flowers are 
rather larger, and the styles longer than the stamens. An in- 
troduced species, occasionally found in a semi-wild state. 
5. H. elodes.—A very distinct native species, found in wet 
boggy places. It is a creeping herbaceous plant with orbicular 
or oblong amplexicaul villous leaves about 6 lines long, and 
small pale yellow flowers whose sepals are margined with 
reddish glands. 
H. prolificwm and H. Kalmidanum are North American 
shrubby species, remarkable in having very numerous stamens 
only slightly united at the base into five bundles. These two 
species are very near in character, the leaves of the former 
being larger, and the flowers smaller, with more than three. 
carpels. 
Orper XXL—TERNSTRG2EMIACEZ. 
A small order of trees and shrubs with alternate simple ex- 
stipulate leaves and white, pink, or red flowers. Peduncles 
]-flowered, axillary or terminal. Sepals 5 or 7, imbricated, 
coriaceous and deciduous. Petals 5 to 9, often cohering at the 
base. Stamens numerous, hypogynous ; sometimes monadel- 
phous. Stigmas on a long style. Capsule 2- to 7-celled, few- 
seeded. Seeds large, albumen none or thin. Chiefly from the 
tropics; a few in China and Japan and North America. 
