ST. JOHN'S- WORT FAMILY. Hypericacesc. 



ST. JOHN'S- WORT FAMILY. Hypericacece. 

 A small family of shrubs and herbs, with opposite, 

 toothless leaves generally stemless, and dotted with black- 

 ish jpots. The flowers perfect, witli five (or four) parts, 

 and often with numerous stamens. Fruit a capsule. 

 St.Peter's=.wort ^ plant familiar in the pine barrens of 

 Ascyrum stans New Jersey, with oval, stemless, thickish 

 Yellow leaves and four-petaled lemon yellow flow- 



uly-August erg ^ c } ose i v resembling the next species. 

 The stem conspicuously two-edged. 1-2 feet high. In 

 sandy soil, Long Island, N. Y., N. J., and Pa., south. 



A low, branching, smooth plant with 

 St. Andrew's 

 Cross small deep green leaves, oblong or narrowly 



Ascyrum Crux- obovate, Stemless and thin, growing op- 



Andrece positely. The lemon yellow flowers with 



four petals arranged in pairs in the form 



September of an X > in a final cluster > or at tne leaf - 

 angles ; petals numerous ; flower f inch 

 broad. 5-10 inches high. Sandy soil, Nantucket, Mass. , 

 south, west to Neb., and Tex. 



An erect and showy perennial with tall 

 John's-wort branching stem, the branches four-angled. 

 Hypericum Leaves ovate-oblong, pointed, stemless 

 Ascyron an( j slightly clasping the plant-stem. The 



Deep yellow flowers large and showy, 1-2 inches broad, 

 deep lemon yellow, with five narrow petals; 

 stamens numerous. 2-6 feet high. River-banks and 

 meadows, Vt. to Conn., N. J., Pa., Iowa, and Minn. 



A shrubby species with stout, branching 

 Shrubby St. 



John's-wort stem, the branchlets two-edged, and leaty. 

 Hypericum Leaves deep green, lighter beneath, linear- 

 proliflcum oblong, and very short-stemmed ; several 

 Golden yellow smaller leaflets at the junction of leaf 

 u y ugus with the stem. Flower-clusters thick, 

 loose, and flat. The flowers golden yellow, with numer- 

 ous deep golden yellow stamens. 1-3 feet high. In 

 sandy soil N. J., south to Ga., and west to Minn. 



A simple-stemmed species blooming in 

 the same season and with similar golden 

 yellow flowers. The deep green leaves 

 (rather closely set upon the plant-stem) oblong or lance- 

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