NAT. ORDER. — HYPERICINEiE. 
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at the base ; the flowers are terminating, larg-e, and of a brig'ht yel- 
low. It grows most naturally in Majorca. 
Hypericum Ascyron. Great-flowered St. Peter's-wort. This spe- 
cies has a stem about two feet high, round, smooth, and rufescent ; — ■ 
the leaves are pale green, paler underneath, about an inch long and 
half an inch wide, roundish, opposite ; the flowers terminating ; calyx 
green ; corolla pale yellow, and about five times as large as the com- 
mon sort. This is a native of the middle sections of the United States. 
Hypericum Androsaemum. Common Tustan. Tliis plant has a 
perennial, thick, woody root, of a reddish color, and sends out a num- 
ber of very long slender fibres ; the stems are suffi-uticose or under- 
shrubby, ancipital, two-edged, or slightly winged on opposite sides, 
from two to three feet high, branched towards the top, of a reddish 
color, and smooth ; branches brachiate or decussated, and spreading ; 
the leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, entire, smooth, dark green, glauce- 
ous on the under side, netted with numerous projecting veins and 
nerves, which become through age ferruginous ; on the stem they are 
about two inches long, and an inch and a half broad at the base ; — 
those on the branches are smaller, of different sizes, and some of them 
approaching to lanceolate ; the flowers are small for the size of the 
plant, and disposed in a cyme ; the peduncles are round, smooth, 
usually two or three flowered, but sometimes only one flowered ; the 
fruit is an ovate capsule, assuming the appearance of a berry, at first 
sight of a yellowish-green, then red or brownish-purple, and lastly al- 
most black when ripe. This is a native of the southern parts of Eu- 
rope. 
Hypericum Canariense. Canary St. John's-wort. This species 
rises with a shrubby stalk six or eight feet high, and dividing mto 
branches at the top ; the leaves are oblong, set by pairs close to the 
branches, having a strong smell, but not so foetid as some of the other 
varieties ; the flowers terminate in clusters, very much like those of 
the preceding sort. It is a native of the Canary Islands, and flowers 
from July till September. 
