HYPERICINEiB. 



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tending northward to southern Sweden, and carried out to some other 

 countries with European weeds. Frequent in England and Ireland, 

 less so in Scotland. Fl. summer and autumn. 



7. Flax-leaved Hypericum. Hypericum linariifolium, 



Vahl. (Fig. 182.) 



(Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2851.) 



Intermediate in some measure be- 

 tween the trailing H. and the common 

 II. ; taller and more erect .than the for- 

 mer, much smaller and more slender than 

 the latter, seldom above 8 or 10 inches 

 high. Leaves linear or narrow- oblong, 

 6 to 8 lines long, rarely marked with 

 pellucid dots, but with a few black ones 

 underneath. Flowers in a loose corymb, 

 larger and brighter than in the trailing 

 H. ; the sepals oblong or broadly lan- 

 ceolate, with numerous black dots, and 

 a few glandular teeth on the edge. Petals 

 tw^ice or thrice as long as the sepals. 

 Stamens not numerous. 



On dry, hilly wastes and rocky places, 

 in western Spain, Portugal, and France, 

 extending to the Channel Islands and to 

 south-western England, where it has 



been found at Cape Cornwall,and on the banks of the Teign, in Devon- 

 shire. Fl. summer. 



8. Slender Hypericum. Hypericum pulchrum, Linn. 



(Fig. 183.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1227.) 



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 the 

 common H., forming an oblong or pyramidal panicle, not a flat corymb 



