Pl.eX'thal. 67. HYPERICINEiE. 389. Hyperic. 635 
Woods and hedges on chalk; perennial; June and July. 
Stem stiff, branched ; leaves ribbed ; panicle many-flower- 
ed ; flowers small ; corolla gold-yellow. 
10. Hypericum elodes. Woolly St. John’s- wort . 
Stem round, creeping, villous ; leaves roundish, ovate, 
sessile downy ; panicle few-flowered ; calyx-lobes serrated, 
glandular, bald. 
Hypericum q. Ascyron supinum villosum palustre, C. Bauhini, Raii Syn . 
344, 8. 
Hypericum tomentosum, Ger. em. 540, 3. 
Spongy bogs ; perennial ; July and August. 
j Root fibrous ; stem procumbent ; leaves ribbed, from the 
base ; panicle terminal becoming lateral, forked ; petals 
yellow, with green ribs ; nectaries 3, glandular, between the 
androphores. 
Earn. III. 68. ACERINEAE. Jussieu. Acer a De Candolle. 
Calyx 1-leafed, persisting, 5-cut; petals 5, clawed, on 
a hypogynous disk, alternate with the calyx-lobes, or 0 ; 
stamens definite on the disk ; ovary free, simple, or many 
soldered ; style 1 ; stigmata 2 ; capsule 2-celled, cells one- 
seeded; perisperm 0, radicle prone in the lobes, ascending; 
cotyledons leaflike. — Stem arborescent ; leaves opposite, 
mostly palmately ribbed. 
390. ACER. Pliny. Maple . 
Calyx 5-parted ; petals 5 ; stamens 8 ; ovary 2-lobed ; 
style 1 ; stigmata 2, pointed ; samares 2, united at their 
base, 1-celled, winged with a membrane, 1 or 2-seeded. 
1 . Acer majus. Great maple. 
Leaves 5-lobed, unequally serrated, obtuse ; racemes 
hanging, rather tomentose. 
Acer majus, Raii Syn. 470, 1 ; Ger. em. 1484, 1. 
Acer majus latifolium, Sycamorus falso dictum, Park. 1425. 
Acer Pseudo-platanus, Lin. S. P. 1495. 
Sycamore. Maple. 
Woods and hedges near houses; naturalized; tree; May. 
Trunk straight ; branches smooth ; twigs depending ; 
leaves bald, paler beneath ; flowers green, sometimes bar- 
ren ; filament s mostly bald, rarely hairy; pollen globular, 
when burst by moisture 4-valved ; ovary very hairy ; stig- 
mata downy. — Wood soft, very white, used for turnery 
work; juice saccharine, afford^, sugar by evaporation. 
