HYPERICINS^). 



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Whole plant perfectly glabrous. 



Stems diffuse, or, if erect, growing in tufts, sel- 

 dom above 6 inches high. 

 Leaves oblong or ovate. Stems low or diffuse 6. Trailing H. 



Leaves linear 7. Flax-leaved H, 



Stems erect and stiff, usually a foot or more high. 

 Stem-leaves broad-cordate, rarely above ^-in. 



long. Panicle oblong, loose 8. Slender IT. 



Stem-leaves ovate or oblong 1 to 2 in. long. 



Panicle compact 10. Mountain H. 



Stems or leaves hairy. 



Stem tall and erect, slightly hairy. Leaves ob- 

 long or elliptical 9. Hairy H '. 



Stems diffuse, very woolly. Leaves orbicular . 11. Marsh H. 



Several half-shrubby or shrubby species, from southern Europe or 

 the Canary or Azore Islands, are occasionally cultivated in our flower- 

 gardens or shrubberies. A supposed British species described by 

 Bertoloni under the name of _5". anglicum, appears to have been founded 

 on some mistake. 



1. Large-flowered Hypericum. Hypericum calycinum, 



Linn. (Fig. 176.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 2017.) 



Eootstock extensively creeping and 

 woody. Stems scarcely a foot high, 

 simple or branching at the base only, 

 with large, almost sessile, ovate or ob- 

 long leaves, very obtuse, green and gla- 

 brous, 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, or- 

 bicular, with longitudinal glandular lines. 

 Stamens very numerous, long and slen- 

 der, 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 

 part3 of England and Ireland. FL sum- 

 mer. 



