HYPERICUM. 
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Lamarck 1. c. says of tlie st. “ caule ancipiti” in liis specific 
char., and yet has “tiges cylindriques ” in his descr. The sep. 
he calls “obtuses ou a peine pointues,” which is sufficiently 
correct. 
6. H. perforatum L. Erva de S. Joao. 
Smooth ; st. ascending erect 2-edged much branched at the 
base; 1. oblong or elliptic thickly pellucid-dotted and thinly 
sprinkled, with a few black dots beneath, not reticulate ; cyme 
large close many-fl. ; sep. erect narrow-lanceolate very acumi- 
nate twice as long as ovary black-dotted ; pet. obliquely oblong 
and with anth. copiously black-dotted ; styles divergent longer 
than stam. or not shorter than ovary. — Brot. ii. 322 ; EB. t. 295 ; 
Buch ! 196. no. 326 ; DC. i. 549 ; Sm. E. FI. iii. 325 ; Presl 192 : 
WB. ! i. 43, 44 ; Koch 146 ; Bab. 60. 
|8. angustifolium Bab. 1. c. (scarcely of Koch) ; 1. narrow 
linear-oblong or elliptic copiously pellucid-dotted. — Herb. per. 
Mad. reg. 2, 3 ; ccc. Banks, mountain-pastures, ravines, &c., 
everywhere, chiefly from 1000 to 4000 ft. May-Sept. — St. 
2-3 ft. long stiff but mostly spreading and declining or decum- 
bent at the base, somewhat bushy downwards with numerous 
thickly leafy slender side-branches and longer prostrate weak 
and almost filiform finely leaved shoots at the base. Foliage 
dark or full gr. L. distinctly acute ; only their principal nerves 
pellucid. FI. rather large and handsome bright golden-y. in 
■dense ample cymes. Sep. either quite entire or indistinctly 
subserrulate upwards. Black glands of pet. chiefly at the edge, 
but not so always on the 1. Styles at least twice as long as 
the ovary. 
7. H. humifusum L. 
Smooth ; st. numerous prostrate or procumbent subcespitose 
slender filiform slightly 2-edged ; 1. oval-oblong minutely pel- 
lucid-dotted, the edges black-dotted beneath ; fl. loosely cy- 
mose ; sep. large leafy broadly oblong or oval obtuse quite entire 
unequal twice as long as ovary ; styles very short. — Brot. ii. 323 ; 
Buch! 196. no. 327; EB. t. 1226; DC. i. 549; Sm. E. Fl. iii. 
326 ; Koch 146 ; Bab. 60. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3 ; ccc. 
Banks, ravines and mountain-pastures everywhere from 500 to 
6000 ft. May-Sept. — A small low much-branched and leafy 
pi. 3-6 in. high with very slender wiry st. often forming dense 
mats or tufts. L. small oval or elliptic more or less oblong 
more or less obtuse. Fl. rather small. Sep. with sometimes 
a few stalked black glands at the edge. Stam. 15-20. Styles 
shorter than the ovary. 
8. II. QUADRANGULUM L. 
Smooth ; st. very erect and straight 4-angular, angles slightly 
