82 THE HYPERICUM FAMILY. [ Hypericum. 
8. H. pulchrum, Linn. (fig. 185). Slender Hypericum.—Perennial 
stock shortly decumbent, the stems erect and stiff though slender, 1 to 
near 2 feet high, with short lateral branches, all perfectly glabrous. Leaves 
of the main stem broadly cordate and clasping the stem at the base, 
seldom above 6 lines long, those of the lateral branches smaller and much 
narrower, all marked with pellucid dots, but usually without black ones. — 
Flowers rather smaller than in H. perforatum, forming 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, glandular teeth. 
In dry woods, on open heaths and wastes, almost all over Europe, but 
scarcely extending to the Asiatic frontier. Frequent in Britain. 1. 
summer. 
9. H. hirsutum, Linn. (fig. 186). Hairy Hypericum.—A stiff, erect 
perennial, with an oblong or pyramidal panicle like H. pulehrum, 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, glandular teeth; the 
petals fully twice as long. 
In woods and thickets, generally spread over Europe and Russian Asia, 
except the extreme north. Frequent in Great Britain. Very rare in 
Ireland. FJ. summer. 
10. H.montanum, Linn. (fig. 187). Mountain Hypericum.—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 com- 
pact cyme, often reduced to a head; the sepals lanceolate, fringed with 
black, glandular teeth ; the petals twice as long, narrow, and paler than in 
HH. perforatum. 
In woods, in central and southern Europe to the Caucasus, and north- 
wards 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. #7. summer. 
11, #. Blodes, Linn. (fig. 188). Marsh Hypericum.—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 becoming 
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 whole of the west of 
England, Wales, and Ireland, and in Scotland as far north as Argyllshire. 
Ll. summer. 
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