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POLYANDRIA Dl — PENTAGYNIA* 
more flowers, common peduncle about an inch long. Segments of the ca- 
lyx oval, seven nerved, glabrous, not dotted. Petals oval, twice as long a& 
the calyx, dotted, of an obscurely red color. Stamens generally 9, as long 
as the corolla, united at base into 3 phalanxes, an ovate orange colored gland 
between the phalanxes. Styles 3, separate, as long as the stamens. Cap- 
sule 3 celled. 
Grows in wet soils and ditches and around ponds. 
Flowers August and September. 
2. Tobulosa. Walt. 
Flowers trigynous ; 
corolla tubular ; sta- 
mens united above the 
middle; leaves sessile. 
Pursh, 2. p. 379- Nutt. 2. p. 1 J. 
Hypericum tubulosum. Walt. p. 191* 
This plant still rests on the authority of Walter. It is one of the very 
few of his species which has not been identified. 
Grows 
Flowers 
. flonbus tngynis;* 
corollis tubulosis ; sta- 
minum corporibus 
plusquam ad medium 
connatis ; foliis sessil- 
ibus. , 
3. Petiolata. Walt. 
E. foliis petiolatis 
oblongo-ovalibusjobtu- 
sis ; floribus oppositis, 
axillaribus, subsessili- 
bus, subternis ; sta- 
minibus ad medium 
usque connatis, capsu- 
lis oblongis. 
Leaves on petioles,, 
oblong-oval, obtuse ; 
flowers opposite, ax- 
illary, nearly sessile, 
generally by threes ; 
stamens united to the 
middle ; capsule ob- 
long. 
Pursh. 2. p. 379. Nuttall. 2. p. 17. 
Hypericum petiolatum. Wal. 191. 
Hypericum axillare. Mich. 2.p. 81. 
Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, about 2 feet high, glabrous. Leaves 
opposite, emarginate, tapering at base, dotted, and somewhat glaucous 
underneath, petiole^ about half an inch long. Common peduncle 3 — 4 
