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80 THE HYPERICUM FAMILY. [ Hypericum, 
Stem tall and erect, slightly hairy. Leaves oblong or ; 
elliptical 5 ‘ 9. H. hirsutum, 
Stems diffuse, very woolly. Leaves orbicular ie | 6 H. Elodes. 
Several half-shrubby or shrubby species, from southern Kurope or the 
Canary or Azores Islands, are occasionally cultivated in our flower-gardens — 
or shrubberies. 
1, H.calycinum, Linn. (fig. 178). Large-flowered Hypericum.— 
Rootstock extensively creeping and woody. Stems scarcely a foot high, 
simple or branching at the base only, with large, almost sessile, ovate or 
oblong leaves, very obtuse, green and glabrous, with very small pellucid 
dots. Flowers bright yellow, 3 or 4 inches diameter, one or two at the 
top of each stem, or, in our gardens, in a corymb of 5 or 6. Sepals nearly 
6 lines long, orbicular, with longitudinal glandular lines. Stamens very 
numerous, long and slender, united at the base into 5 bundles, Styles 5. 
A south-east European species, long cultivated in our gardens, and now 
naturalized in bushy places in several parts of England and Ireland. 7. 
summer. 
2, H. Androseemum, Linn. (fig. 179). Tutsan Hypericum, Tutsan.— 
Stock short, somewhat woody; the flowering stems usually numerous, 
erect, 13 to 2 feet high, simple or slightly branched. Leaves sessile, ovate, 
obtuse, cordate at the base, 2 to 3 inches long, glabrous, with very minute 
pellucid dots. Flowers few, in small corymbs, shorter than the last pair of 
leaves. Sepals broad, 3 or 4 lines long. Petals scarcely longer. Stamens 
numerous, slightly connected at the very base into 5 clusters. Styles 3. 
Capsule globular, slightly succulent before it is ripe, not usually opening 
in valves. 
In shrubby places and open woods, in western and southern Europe, 
extending also far into central Asia. In Britain, all along the west side of 
Great Britain, in Ireland, and southern England, but rare on the eastern 
side. FU. summer, The plant recently added to our Flora as H. anglicum 
of Bertoloni, appears to have been represented sometimes by a long-styled 
state of the Zutsan, sometimes by exotic garden species accidentally ti 
from cultivation. 
3. H. perforatum, Linn. (fig. 180). Common Hypericum, St. John’s- 
and erect stems, 1 to 14 feet high, branching in the upper part, cylindrical 
or with two slightly prominent opposite angles, and quite glabrous. Leaves 
sessile, oblong, seldom above 6 lines long, marked with pellucid dots, and 
occasionally a few black ones on the under side, the nerves are opaque. 
Flowers bright yellow, in a handsome terminal corymb. Sepals lanceolate, 
pointed, quite entire, but with a few glandular lines or dots. Petals twice 
as long, marked, as well as the anthers, with black dots. Stamens 
numerous, shortly united into 3 bundles. Styles 3. 
In woods, hedges and thickets, roadsides, etc., throughout Europe, ex- 
tending to the Himalaya and central and Russian Asia, except the extreme 
north, and now introduced into other countries. Abundant in Britain. 
Fl. summer and autumn. 
4, H. dubium, Leers (fig. 181). Imperforate Hypericum.—Very 
much like H. perforatum, but the stem is slightly quadrangular, the 
leaves rather larger and broader, and nearly destitute of pellucid dots, 
