96 Hypericum Bonapartece. 



I have dedicated this species of St. John's Wort, to Princess Char- 

 lotte, now Countess de Surveilliers, in testimony of my personal res- 

 pect for her, and my veneration for her name. 



" A very elegant plant, from one to two and a half feet high. The 

 branches are divaricating, slender, appressed, and frequently inflex- 

 ed or curved downward, and crowded with numerous leaves, much 

 narrower than the stem leaves, less obtuse, and even inclining to 

 acute. From the axills of the stem leaves proceeds a cluster of live 

 or six sub-linear, obtuse leaves, which appear to arise from abortive 

 branches. The flowers are yellow, about the size of those of H. 

 corymbosum. I discovered this new species about four, (now nine) 

 years since, in a rich, wet or swampy meadow, on the lower edge of 

 Lansdowne's grounds, close to the Schuylkill, not for above Beck's 

 island. It there grows in profusion, but I have not found it elsewhere. 

 It stands in my Prodromus, No. 6, without a name, not being certain 

 at the time I published that work, that it was undescribed." Barton's 

 Comp. Fl. Ph. Vol. II. p. 15. 



The figure represents the plant the size of nature. 



