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10. Mountain Hypericum. Hypericum montanum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 185.) (Eng. Bot. t. 371.) 



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 the common H. 



In woods, in central and southern Eu- 

 rope to the Caucasus, and northwards 

 into southern Sweden. Not so frequent 

 in England as the other species, and 

 probably not extending into Scotland or 

 Ireland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 185. 



11. Marsh Hypericum. Hypericum Elodes, Linn. 

 (Fig. 186.) (Eng. Bot. t. 109.) 



Stems diffuse, often rooting at thebase, 

 and attaining 6 to 8 inches, or, when very 

 luxuriant, a foot in length, covered with 

 loose, woolly whitish hairs. Leaves or- 

 bicular, 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, but rare in Scotland. Fl. 

 summer % Fig. 186 



