AOL 16. HYPERICACER. — 17. ACERACES. 
16. Hyprricaces. 
Hypericum (dubium) maculatum, Bab. man. 
Provinces 1 to 16; according to the use of the name. 
Syn. 216. Cyb. i. 247. See pages 447—S of this volume. 
Hypericum hircinum, Linn. 
Provinces --3456--9----- 15. Surrey to Stirling. 
Alien. Springs freely from fallen seed, and creeps much at the 
root where planted about shrubberies, etc. 
Hypericum elatum, Ait. H. anglicum, Bab. man. 
Provinces 1--4-------- 13-15 16. Cornwall to Argyle. 
Alien. Cyb. iii. 3380. Not H. grandifolium, Choisy? Somewhat 
impatient of severe frost in Surrey gardens, and killed to the ground 
in winters of unusual severity. The fruit is dry, quite dissimilar 
from that of Androsemum, as is the whole plant; and yet they 
have somehow become confused together. 
Hypericum barbatum, Jacq. 
Province - 15. Perth; G. Don, sole authority. 
Ambiguity. A garden plant? Cyb.i. 254. In English Flora 
Smith accepts this as a true native, and without a word of doubt; 
attributing it to “ bushy places in Scotland,” as though there were 
any number of localities for it in addition to the one specially men- 
tioned, ‘“‘ by the side of a hedge,” in Strath Earn. Smith was too 
exclusively a botanist of the study, not of living nature in the 
wilds, to warrant any reliance on his decisions about the genuine 
nativity, or otherwise, of plants in Britain. And yet not alone 
foreign botanists (excusably) but even some English botanists 
(inexcusably) cite him as an authority whose decisions are to be 
received and abided by. 
Hypericum calycinum, Linn. 
Provinces 12345 6-89 101112 13. 
Alien. Cyb.i. 253. Much planted in shrubberies and on banks; 
where it readily spreads by its creeping rootstocks; thus mis- 
leading the inexperienced botanist to suppose it native in this 
country. 
17. AcERACES. 
Acer Pseudo-platanus, Linn. 
Provinces 1 to 16. Much planted, and springing freely from seeds. 
Alien. Cyb.i. 255. ii1.400. Described as a ‘ Denizen’ in Baker's 
Botany of North Yorkshire; but given as an ‘ Alien’ by the same 
botanist in the New Flora of Northumberland and Durham, 
