CHAP. XXI. 



/A'PERICA'CE.E. /A'PE'RICUM. 



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Spec. Char., tyc. Stem round. Loaves sessile, lanceolate, numerous, without dots Peduncles dilated, 

 and somewhat compressed towards the apex. Calyx obtuse. Corolla and stamens marcesrent. 

 (Don's Mill., i. p. 602.) A deciduous undershrub, from the Canary Islands in 177!', producing its 

 yellow flowers in August. Height 3 ft. It is usually treated as a green-house plant ; but it is 

 capable of resisting the winters of the climate of London, in a warm situation, with very little 

 protection. 



tL C. //. oly'mpicijbi L. The Olympian St. John's Wort. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1102.; Sin. Ex. Bot, 2. p. 71. ; Dec. 

 Prod., 1. 54"). 



Synonymes. H. nmntis olympi Wheel. Ilin., Ray; II. orien- 

 tal e fibre majus Tonm. 



Engravings. Sm. Exot. Pot., 2. t. 96. ; Bot. Mag., t. 1807. ; and 

 ourfig.'l06. 



Spec. Char., S;c. Stem round. Leaves elliptical-lanceolate, 

 rather acute, full of pellucid dots. Calyx ovate, acute. Pe- 

 duncles bibracteate. Corolla and stamens withering. (Don's 

 Mill., i. p. 602.) An interesting little shrub, with glaucous 

 sessile leaves, native of Mount Olympus and China, intro- 

 duced in 1706, and producing its yellow flowers from July to 

 September. It grows to the height of from 1 ft. to 2 ft., and 

 requires protection during winter. All the half-hardy species 

 of //ypericum might be grown on a conical piece of rock work, 

 a sort of miniature Mount Olympus, in a warm sheltered 

 part of the pleasure-ground or arboretum. The protection 

 required in winter might be given with complete effect, and at 

 very little expense, by resting a number of poles on the pro- 

 truding points of the larger rocks or stones, and on these 

 placing thatched hurdles, or even, in warm districts, a few 

 spruce fir branches. 



* 7. H. canarie'nse L. The Canary Island St. John's Wort. 



Identification. Lin. Syst. p. 575. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 544. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 602. 



Engraving. Lodd. Bot. Cab., 953. 



Varieties. De Candolle notices two : H. c. triphy^lum, and H. c. salicifblium. 



Spec. Char., S(C. Stem bluntlv quadrangular. Branches compressed. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute. 

 Calyx ovate, obtuse. Styles 3—4, diverging. (Don's Mill., i. p. 602.) A neat little shrub, a native of 

 the Canary Islands, introduced in 1699, and producing its yellow flowers from July to September. 

 Height 4 ft. It is commonly kept in green-houses or frames ; but, like most of the other plants from 

 the Canary Islands and similar climates, it will endure a London winter in the open air against a 

 wall, with the protection of litter or leaves over the ground, and a couple of mats over the top. 



B. Styles commonly 5. 

 * 8. H. chine'nse L. The Chinese St. John's Wort. 



Identification. Lin. Amcen., 8. p. 323. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 545. ; and Don's Mill., 1. p. 602. 



Synonyme. II. mon6gynum Mill. Illust., 151. ; H. aureum Lour. 



Engraving. Mill. Illust., 151. f. 2. 



Spec. Char., 8(C. Stem round. Leaves elliptical, obtuse, with a few black dots. Peduncles bibracteate. 

 Calyx oblong, obtuse, beset with black dots. Styles collected together. (Don's Mill., i. p. 602.) A 

 sub-evergreen shrub, a native of the East Indies and the Cape of Good Hope ; introduced in 1753, 

 and producing its yellow flowers from March to September. Height 3 ft. It is marked in the 

 Catalogues as a green-house plant: it would, in all probability, endure the open air.with protection, 

 during winter. It stood at Biel, in East Lothian, in 1825, in an exposed situation. A species bear- 

 ing this name has stood against the wall in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, for four 

 years, with very little protection. There is a species, named H. mondgynutn L., not of Miller, which 

 is figured in Bot. Mag., t. 334., which appears to be different from this one. It is a native of Japan 

 and China, and grows to the height of 3ft. In Nepal, a species nearly allied to this (H. cernuum 

 Rox., II. speciosum Wall.) is met with on hills at 3000 ft. of elevation. 



«- 9. H. cordifo v lium Chois. The heart-leaved St. John's Wort. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 1. p. 545. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 602. 



Synonymcs. II. bracteatum, and H. Lungusum Ham. MS. in D. Don. Prod., p. 317. 



Spec. Char., 8(c. Stem round. Leaves elliptical, acute, coriaceous, smooth, somewhat stem-clasping, 

 without dots ; flower-bearing branches leafy below, crowded Bracteas ovate-cordate, acute. Sepals 

 ovate, mucronate, without dots. Petals oblong, unequally sided, obliquely mucronulate. Stamens 

 short. Styles unconnected, scarcely longer than thecorolla. (Don's Mill., i. p. (302.) A sub-evergreen 

 shrub from Nepal, in 1825, producing its yellow flowers from April to October. Height 2 ft. It is 

 commonly kept in a frame, but would stand our winters, in a warm situation, with a very little 

 protection. 



« 10. H. pa'tulum Thun. The spreading St. John's Wort. 



Identification. Thun. Jap., p. 295. t. 17. ; Don's Mill, 1. p. 603. 



Engraving. Thun. Jap., t. 17. 



Spec. Char., eye. Stem round, purplish. Leaves ovate -lanceolate, acute, tapering to the base with 

 revolute margins, without dots. Flowers corymbose. Styles recurved at the apex, scarcely longer 

 than the stamens. Peduncles bibracteate. Sepals sub-orbicular, very obtuse. (Don's Mill., i. p. 603.) 

 An evergreen shrub, a native of Japan and Nepal, introduced in 1823, and producing its yellow 

 flowers from June to August. Height 6 ft. 



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