18. HYI’KRICINE/E. 
5!) 
woolly tuft at the origin of each nerve beneath, pcdnneles many- 
tlovvered, nearly smooth coriaceous downy. — if. B. 610. — 
Kl. in a naked cyme springing from a lanceolate leafy bract. 
L. twice the length of their petioles. The staminodium does not 
occur in either of onr species. — In many old plantations. T. VII. 
2. T. parvifolia (Ehrh.); 1. obliquely cordate glabrous e.\cept 
a woolly tuft at the origin of each nerve beneath, peduncles 
many-tlowered, /?■)«'< angular thin and brittle. — E. B. 1705. — L. 
usually scarcely longer than their petioles, by which and by its 
thin, not coriaceous fruit it is distinguished from the jirececling. 
Lobes of the stigma ultimately sj)reading horizontally. — In w'oods. 
Probably the only truly native species. T. VIII. 
*3. T. grandifolia (Ehrh.) ; 1. obliquely cordate downy beneath. 
with a woolly tuft at the origin of each nerve beneath, peduncles 
mostly 3-flowered, fruit with 5 prominent angles woody downiy 
turbinate. — E. B. S. 2720. — Young shoots hairy. L. longer 
than their petioles. Lobes of the stigma erect. — T. rubra (Lindl. 
Syn.) is stated to have globose and smooth fi-uit and to be the 
T. corallina Sm. I have not seen it. Reichenbach places it 
in a section in which the bract extends to the base of the pe- 
duncle and refers E. B. S. 2720 to it. That plate represents the 
bract as not extenchng to tbe base, but, judging from my speci- 
mens of T. grandifolia, that character is not to be depended upon. 
— In old plantations. T. VI. VII. E. I. 
Order XVIII. HYPERICINEiE. 
Sep. 4 — 5, distinct or cohering, persistent, with glandular dots, 
imbricate. Pet. 4 — 5, twisted in sestivation. Stam. indefinite, 
polyadelphous, connected in 3 or 4 bundles at the base. Anthers 
versatile. Styles several, rarely connate. Fruit a dry or fleshy 
capsule of many cells and many valves, the valves cm-ved inw'ards. 
Seeds minute, indefinite, on a central axis or the tmmed margins 
of the valves, embryo straight wdth no albumen. — L. mostly op- 
posite, w'ith pellucid dots. FI. yellow. 
1. Hypericum. Cal. 5-parted or of 5 sepals. Pet. 5. Styles 
3 (in nearly all our plants) or 5. Caps, more or less per- 
fectly 3-celled. — FI. yellow. 
1. Hypericum Linn. St. John’s Wort. 
* Styles 5. 
*1. H. calycinum (L.); st. shrubby square, 1. oblong, fl. soli- 
taiy, sep. unequal obovate obtuse, pet. often lobed on one side. 
—E. B. 2017 . — Fl. veiy large. — Naturalized in bushy places in 
