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82 THE HYPERICUM FAMILY. 
an oblong or pyramidal panicle, not a flat corymb. Sepals broad and 
obtuse, united to near the middle, without black dots outside, but 
fringed at the top with black, olandular teeth. | 
In dry woods, on open heaths and wastes, almost all over Europe, 
but scarcely extending to the Asiatic frontier. Frequent in Britain. 
Fl. summer. 
9, H. hirsutum, Linn. (fig. 187). Hairy H.—A stiff, erect perennial, 
with an oblong or pyramidal panicle like H. pulchrum, but rather 
taller, and the stems always more or less downy or hairy. Leaves 
often above an inch long, oblong or elliptical, narrowed at the base 
into a very short stalk, more or less hairy underneath on the veins, 
and marked with numerous pellucid dots. Flowers of H. pulchrum, 
but of a paler yellow ; the sepals narrow, fringed with rather long, 
olandular teeth ; the petals fully twice as long. 
In woods and thickets, generally spread over Hurope and Russian 
Asia, except the extreme north. Frequent in Great Britain. os 
rare in Ireland. Fl. summer. 
10. H. montanum, Linn. (fig. 188). dA/owntain H.—Stock perennial, 
the stiff, erect stems about 2 feet high, usually simple, with the upper 
leaves small and distant, the lower leaves rather large, ovate, and 
stem-clasping, quite glabrous, with or without pellucid dots, but with 
a row of black ones round the margin underneath. Flowers in a close 
compact cyme, often reduced to a head ; the sepals lanceolate; fringed 
with black, glandular teeth; the petals twice as long, narrow, and paler 
than in #. perforatum. 
In woods, in central and southern Europe to the Caucasus, and 
northwards into southern Sweden. Not so frequent in England as the 
other species, and in Scotland only found in Ayrshire ; only once found 
in Ireland near Belfast. Fl. summer. 
11. H. Hlodes, Linn. (fig. 189). Marsh H.—Stems diffuse, often 
rooting at the base, and attaining 6 to 8 inches, or, when very luxuriant, 
a foot in length, covered with loose, woolly, whitish hairs. Leaves 
orbicular, stem-clasping, woolly on both sides. Flowers pale yellow, 
few together in a leafless cyme, at first terminal, but afterwards be- — 
coming lateral. Sepals small, ovate, copiously fringed with glandular 
teeth. Petals three times as long, with a small fringed appendage at 
their base. Stamens united to above the middle in 3 bundles. 
In spongy and watery bogs, in western Europe, from Spain and 
Portugal to north-western Germany. Extends over the west of 
. England, Wales, and Ireland, and in Scotland to Argyllshire. fl. 
summer, 
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XVII. LINACEA, THE FLAX FAMILY. | ‘ 
Herbs or undershrubs, with entire leaves, no stipules, and 
recular flowers. Sepals 5, rarely fewer, overlapping each other — 
in the bud, rarely partially united. Petals as many, twisted 
in the bud. Stamens as many, free, or the filaments very 
shortly united at the base, with small teeth between each (or, 
in exotic genera, 10. stamens). Styles 5, rarely, fewer, often 
