XVIII. HYPERICACETE. 
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Hypericum .] 
often black dots. Stamens numerous (15 or more), polyadel- 
phous, rarely monadelphous or quite distinct. Anthers small, 
versatile. Ovary single. Styles 3 — 5, rarely combined. Stig- 
mas simple. Fruit a capsule of several valves, rarely baccate, 
several-celled (or imperfectly so by the valves being curved 
inwards, and scarcely meeting in tlie axis), or 1 -celled: dehis- 
cence septicidal. Seeds minute, numerous, on a receptacle in 
the axis, or on the incurved margins of the valves. Embryo 
straight. Albumen 0. — Herbs or shrubs, with generally opposite 
leaves, mostly marked ivith pellucid dots, and commonly yellow 
flowers. Aromatic and resinous, juice sometimes purgative. 
1. Hypericum Linn. St. John’s Wort. 
Cal. 5-partite, or of 5 sepals, inferior. Pet , 5. Filaments 
united at the base into 3 or 5 sets (or sometimes almost dis- 
tinct). Caps, many-seeded. — Name: the vm/pucon of Dios- 
corides. 
* Petals unequal-sided, without any glands or appendages at the base or 
between the sets of the shortly connected stamens. 
f Styles 5. Petals deciduous. Eremanthe. 
1. H. * calycinum L. ( large-flowered St. J.) ; flowers solitary, 
segments of the calyx unequal obovate obtuse, leaves oblong, 
stem shrubby branched square. E. B. t. 2017. 
Bushy places. Naturalized at Largs, and Balmacarra, Scotland ; 
Ryde, Isle of Wight ; Wicklow and Cork, Ireland. 1;. 7 — 9. — I lowers 
very large, yellow, as in all the genus. Petals and sets of stamens 
5, deciduous. Ovary and capsule 5-celled, or 1-celled towards the 
summit. 
tt Styles 3. Petals deciduous. Stamens shortly pentadelphous. 
Androsa:mutn. 
2. II. Androsee' mum L. ( common Tutsan) ; styles much shorter 
than the stamens recurved, capsule pulpy nearly globose, stem 
shrubby compressed, sepals unequal oval at length larger than 
the capsule, leaves ovate sessile. Curt. FI. Lond. I. t. 164. 
Hedges and shrubby places; Norfolk; Herts; Kent; between 
Dorking and Guildford; and at Gt. Marlow, Bucks. Not rare in 
Devon, Hampshire, and Cornwall. Frequent in Ireland, and the 
west of Scotland. Ij- 6 — 8. — Stems 2 ft. high. Leaves large. Cymes 
terminal. Stamens deciduous. Ovary imperfectly 3-celled. Fruit 
fleshy and resembling a berry, especially when unripe. 
3. H. * A'nglicum Bertol. ( large-flowered Tutsan)-, styles 
nearly straight about as long as the stamens and petals and 
twice the length of the calyx, capsule when ripe 3-valved at 
