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and to be T. corallina Sm. I have not seen it—In old planta- 
tions. T. VI. VII. E.L. 
Order XVII. HYPERICACEA. 
Sep. 4—5, distinct or cohering, persistent, with glandular dots, 
imbricate. Pet. 4—5, twisted in estivation. Stam. indefinite, 
polyadelphous, connected in 3 or 4 bundles at the base. Anthers 
versatile. Styles several, rarely connate. Fruit a dry or fleshy 
capsule of many cells and many valves, the valves curved inwards. 
Seeds minute, indefinite, on a central axis or the incurved mar- 
gins of the valves, embryo straight with no albumen.—L. mostly 
opposite, with pellucid dots. FL. yellow. 
1. Hypericum. Cal. 5-parted or of 5 sepals. Pet. 5. Styles 
3 (in nearly all our plants) or 5. Caps. more or less per- 
fectly 3-celled, many-seeded.—Fl. yellow. 
1. Hyeericum Linn. St. John’s Wort. 
* Styles 5. Pet. unequal-sided. 
*1. H. calycinum (L.); st. shrubby square, 1. oblong, fl. soli- 
tary, sep. unequal obovate obtuse, pet. often lobed on one side. 
—E. B. 2017.—¥\. very large.—-Naturalized in bushy places in 
Wicklow and Cork ; Scotland; England. P. VIT.—IX. 
** Styles 3, stam. in 5 sets, pet. deciduous. 
2. H. Androsemum (L.); st. shrubby compressed 2-edged, 
1. cordate-ovate, cymes trichotomous few-flowered, sep. unequal 
subcordate-ovate, pet. oval obtuse, caps. finally pulpy imperfectly 
3-celled.—E. B, 1225. Androsemum. officinale R.—St. 2 feet 
high. L. large, having a strong aromatic smell when rubbed. 
FI. large in terminal cymes. Styles much shorter than the black 
fleshy capsule——Woods and thickets. P. VII. VIII. Tutsan. 
[H. grandifolium (Chois.) styles as long as the germen, is stated, 
doubtless erroneously, to grow in Arran, Scotland. ] 
*#* Styles 3, stam. shortly united in 3 sets, pet. persistent. 
3. H. quadrangulum (L.); st. erect with 4 wings, 1. ovate with 
pellucid dots,*sep. erect lanceolate acuminate entire, pet. lanceo- 
late, styles half as long as the capsule.—£. B. 730. H. tetrap- 
terum Fries, Koch, R. vi. 344.—St. 1—2 feet high. Fl. in ter- 
minal forked close many-flowered cymes, pale. This is certainly 
the plant of Linn. Hort. Cliff. 380. No. 5.—In wet places. P. 
VIL. 
4, H. perforatum (L.); st. erect 2-edged, 1. oblong with pel- 
lucid dots, sep. erect lanceolate acute, pet. obliquely oblong styles 
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