SAROTHRA HYPERICOIDES. 



GROUND PINE. 



Pentandrla Trigynia, Linn. Caryophillex. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix 5-parted, connivent. Petals 5, linear-oblong. Capsule oblong, acute, coloured, 

 1-celled, 3-valved, margin of the valves seminiferous. 



SYNONYMS. 



Sarothra hypericoides, Nutt. Gen Am. pi. vol. i. p 204. 

 S. gentianoides, Willd. 

 Hypericum sarothra, Mich. 

 H. nudicaule, Walt. 



An annual plant, varying in height from three to eight inches, very 

 much branched, so as to form a dense cluster resembling a bunch of 

 pine leaves, hence the common name, stem and branches four-sided. 

 Leaves very minute, scale-like, erect, embracing the stem, opposite, 

 obtuse. Root fibrous, stem simple, for about one or two inches from 



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