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The ftyles in the flower of this plant are three, 
and the feed-veflTel is accordingly divided into 
three cells. 
It is common in damp places, and flowers in 
June. 
J. Bauhine calls it Hypericum afcyrum di£lum 
caule qimdrangulo. Others, Afcynm, and AJcyron 
vulgare. 
Its virtues are the fame with thofe of Saint 
John^s wort. 
8. Woolly Marlh Saint John's wort, 
Hypericum fupinum i-illofurn falujlre. 
This is commonly called a fpecies of SaifU 
Peter's wort ; but I have obferved before, that 
the dift:indion of that as a genus is idle, and not 
fupporced in nature. 
DIVISION II. 
1. Spanifh Saint John's wort. 
Hypericum tomcniofum calycibiis ferratis. 
The root is long, flender, br.-wn, and hung 
with a few fibres. 
The fl:alks are numerous, weak, redifii, and 
feven or eight inches long : they trail upon the 
ground, and are not branched. 
The leaves are placed in pairs: they are of an 
oval fliapc, approaching to heart -fall-iioned, of a 
greyifli white colour, and very hoary. 
The flowers are numerous and fmall : they ftiand 
on long and very flender pedicles rifing from the 
tops of the ftalks, ten or a dozen together, and 
they are of a bright yellow : their cup is ferrated, 
and glandulous. 
The feed-velTcl is large, and the feeds are very 
fmall and brown. 
This fpecies has three ftyles in the flower, and 
the capfule is divided into three cells. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Augufl'. 
C. Bauhine calls it Hypericum fupimim tomento- 
fnm but he erroneoufly makes two fpecies of it, 
a greater and a lefl'er. He had feen it larger in 
Spain, and fmaller in France ; but there was no 
other diflerence. 
2. Perfoliate Saint John's wort. 
Hypericum perfolifJum. 
The root is compofed of a number of thick, 
black fibres. 
The fl:alk is round, upright, Arm, and a foot 
and a half high : it is ufually red toward the 
bottom, and elfewhere of a pale green. 
The leaves are broad, and of a fliapc approach- 
ing to triangular : they meet at the bafe, and the 
flialk feems to pafs through them : the feveral 
pairs are placed at diftances with great regularity : 
they are of a deep green, and of a firm fubftance ; 
and, when held up to the light, they are found 
full of holes, in the manner of the common Saint 
John's wort ; toward the bottom the leaves are 
fmall; they are largeft about the middle of the 
ftalk, and grow fmaller again to the top. 
The flowers ftand on long footflalks at the top 
The root is fmall, and fpreading. 
The flalks are numerous, weak, and procum- 
bent : they are of a whitilh colour, and are ten 
inches or a foot long. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and they are of 
a roundifli figure : they are foft to the touch, 
white, and covered with a wooiiydown. 
The flowers fland on flender footflalks at the 
tops of the ftalks, and rife from the bofoms of 
the upper leaves ; and they arc large, and of a 
beautiful yellow. 
The feed-vefil-Is are roundifli, and the feeds 
minute and brown. 
It is not uncommon on rotten, wet, and boggy 
ground, and flowers in July, 
C. Bauhine calls it Afcyron fupinum villofum pa- 
lujlre. 
of the plant ; and they are large, and of a beauti- 
ful yellow. 
The feed-vefi"el is oval, and the feeds are mi- 
nute and brown. 
This fpecies has three ftyles in the flower, and 
the cells of the feed-vefl"cl are three. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July, 
C. Bauhine calls it Androf<emum perforatum 
perfoliaium. Columna, Androfamum alteruni 
apulum. 
3. Clufl:ered-leaved Saint John's wort. 
Hypericum folits mmerefis. 
The root is long, thick, and furniflied with 
numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are hard, woody, upright, and very 
thick fet with leaves : they are of a redifli colour 
toward the bottom, and of a pale green toward 
the top. 
The leaves arc oblong, and very narrow : tlicy 
do not grow in regular pairs, as in the other fp-^- 
cies of Saint John's wort^ but feem to furround 
the ftalk as thofe of the ftellate plants, like the 
rays of a ftar : however, they ufually grow three 
together, and the reft are young flioots from the 
bofoms of thefc. 
The flowers are large, and of a beaHtlfui yel- 
low : they ftand at the tops of the ftalk?, on fmall, 
flender pedicles. 
The feed-veflcl is large and oval, and the feeds 
are fmall and brown. 
This fpecies has three ftyles in the flower, and 
the feed-veflel has three cells. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Hypericoides con's quibufdam. 
Others, Coris lutca, and Coris Mathioli. 'Our 
people call it Heath Pins, and Low Pine, fometimes 
Coris. 
4, Moneywort leaved Saint John's wort. 
Hypericum nmmf^ulari^ foliis. 
The root is fmall, oblong, crooked, redifh, 
and furnifhed with many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and redifh : 
4 they 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
