LYPERICUM HUMIFUSUM. TRAILING St. JOHN's WORT. 



HYPERICUM Limpet. Gen. PI Polyadelphia Polyandria. 



Cal. 5. partitus. Petala 5, Filament a multa, in 5. phalanges bafi connata. 

 Capfula. 

 Rail. Syn. Gen. 24 Herb^ fentapetalje vasculifer^e. 



HYPERICUM humifufum floribus trigynis axillaribus, folitariis, caulibus ancipitibus proftratis fili- 

 formibus, foliis glabris. Lin. SyJL Fegetab., p. 332. Sp. PL 1105. Fl. Suecic. 681. 



HYPERICUM caule proftrato, foliis ovatis, calycibus ferratis pun&atis. Bailer, hijl. p. $. n. 1039. 



HYPERICUM minus fupinum vel fupinum glabrum. C. Bauh. pin. 279. 



HYPERICUM minus fupinum. Park. 572. 



HYPERICUM fupinum glabrum. Ger. emac. 541. Rail. Syn. p. 342. the lead trailing St. Johns Wort. 



Hudfon. Fl Angl. ed. 2. p. 332. 



Lightfoot. Fl. Scot. p. 418. 



RADIX perennis, lutefcens, fibrofa. | ROOT perennial, of a yellowim colour and fibrous. 



CAULES pluresex eadem radice, fpithamaei, procum- | STALKS feveral from the fame root, about half a foot ' 

 bentes, teretes, vix manifefte ancipites, Iseves, % in length, procumbent, round, fcarce percep- ( 



rubentes, fummitate ramoli. | tibly two edged, fmooth, of a reddifh colour 



y and branched at top. 



FOLIA oppofita, oblongo ovata, obtufa, glabra, inte- t LEAVES oppolite, oblong, oval, obtufe, fmooth, en- 

 gerrima, margine pun£tis nigris notata. | tire, dotted on the edge with black. 



CALYX: Perianthium quinquepartitum, laciniis $ CALYX a Perianthium divided into five fegments, 

 magnis, inaequalibus, ovato oblongis, margine | which are large, unequal, oval, oblong, the 



reflexis et glandulis ferrato pun&atis, mucrone g edge turned back and fawed as it were with 



rufo terminatis. fig. 1. % black glands, terminating in a red point, f. 1. 



COROLLA: Petala quinque, oblonga, flava, obtufa, | COROLLA: five oblong yellow Petals, blunt at the 

 calyce paulo longiora, margine glandulis ^ end, a little longer than the calyx, and dotted 



punctata.^. 2. ¥ on the edge with glands. Jig. 2. 



STAMINA: Filament a raro ultra viginti, in tres | STAMINA: Filaments feldom more than twenty, 

 phalanges diftin&e divifa ; Anthers mini- y diiHnctly divided into three bodies ; Anther je 



mae, flavae./g. 3. | very fmall and yellow, fig. 3. 



PISTILLUM: Germen fubrotundum , Styli tres, | PISTILLUM: Germen roundifh; Styles three, fim- 

 fimplices, diftantes, longitudine ftaminum ; % pie, fpreading, the length of the ftamina ; 



Stigmata fimplicia.j^. 4. | Stigmata fimple. fig. 4. 



PERICARPIUM : Capsula oblongo ovata, membra- % SEED-VESSEL an oblong oval Capfule, membranous, 

 nacea, trilocularis, immatura ruberrima. | of three cavities, of a very bright red colour 



I before it is ripe. 



SEMINA plurima, minima. % SEEDS numerous and very minute. 



This is the leaft of all our Hypericums, but fcarcely inferior to any of them in beauty and delicacy. 



It grows frequent enough, in gravelly paftures, in fields that have long lain fallow, and likewife on heaths, 

 efpecially where the foil is moift and clayey. 



It flowers in June, July, and Auguft. 



Scopoli without any good grounds, fufpects it to be a monftrous vareity of the Hypericum perforatum, from 

 which it differs almoft as much as it is pofiible for one fpecies to differ from another. 



