Hypericum pulchrum, small Upright s T . John’s wort. 
HYPERICUM bmnai Gen. PI. Polyadelphia Polyandria. 
Ran Synop. Gen. 24. Herba: Pent apet ala: Vasculifera. 
HYPERICUM^floribus tngyms ; calycibus ferrato-gkndulofis, caule tereti, foliis perfoliatis glabris. Lin. Sp. 
HYPERICUM pulchrum Tragi. J. Bantin. Hjji. III. 183. Rail Syrnp. 342. 
HYPERICUM minus, eredhim. Bauhin. Pin. 279. 
HYPERICUM foliis amplexicauhbus, cordatis, calycibus ovatis, ferratis, glanduligeris. Haller. Hi/ 1 , n. 1041. 
Gerard, emac. 340. Hudfin. FI. Angi. 290. Oeder. Fler. Ban. Icon. 73. 
RADIX perennis. 
CAULIS pedalis ad bipedalem, eredtus, teres , fig. i. 
glaber, fubramofus, geniculi diftantes. 
RAMI oppofiti, breves, tenues, cauli fimiles. 
PEDUNCULI teretes, plerumque triflori. 
FOLIA Caulis cordato-triangularia, glaberrima , amplexi- 
caulia, faturate viridia, • patentia, quam in can- 
teris Hypericis folidiora, verfus marginem per- 
forata, inferiora frequenter coccinea, Ramo- 
rum ovata, caulis triplo minora, Pedunculo- ■ 
rum ovato-lanceolata. ; 
CALYX. Perianthium quinquepartitum, laciniis 
ovatis, acutis, ftriatis, margine ferratis, den- 
tibus glanduliferis, glandulis nigro rufis, fig. z. 
\ ROOT perennial. 
; STALK from one to two feet high, upright, round. 
Jig. 1 . fmooth, and thinly branched, the joints 
remote from each other. 
BRANCHES oppofite, Ihort, flender and like the 
ftalk. 
PEDUNCLES round, generally fuftaining three flowers. 
LEAVES of the Stalk triangularly heart-Jhaped, fmooth. 
Joining, embracing the Jlalk, nearly horizontal, of 
a deep green colour, more folid to the touch 
than the other St. John’s Worts, perforated near 
, t)ie edge, and frequently of a bright red colour 
towards the bottom, thofe of the Branches 
oval, three times fmaller than thofe on the 
Stalk, and thofe of the Peduncles lancet- 
lhaped. 
CALYX. A Perianthium divided into fiveSegments, 
the Segments oval, pointed, fhriated, ferrated 
and, edged with little glands of a blackifh red 
colour, fg. 2. 
COROLLA. Petala quinque, oblongo-ovata, flava, . 
contorta, leviter ftriata, fubtus aurantiaco line- : : 
ata, margine fubferrata et glandulis cin&a, ' ; 
fg- 3 - : 
STAMINA. Filamenta triginta fex, filiformia, in tres ■ 
fafciculos ad bafin coalita, in Angulo fafciculo : 
duodecim ; Anthera biloculares, fubrotundae. ; : 
Pollen miniaceum , fg. 4. : 
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PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum. Styli tres, longitudine f 
germinis, divaricantes. Stigmata parva, fubro- | 
tunda, fig. 5. | 
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PERICARPIUM. Capsula fubcdnica, trilocularis, | 
fufca, fig. 6, 7. ^ 
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SEMINA plurima, oblonga, fufca, fig. 8. | 
COROLLA. Five Petals, oblong, oval, yellow, {lightly 
ftriated ; on the under fide tinged with a 
bright orange, flightly ferrated, and edged 
with glands, fig. 3. 
STAMINA. The Filaments numerous, to thirty-fix, 
filiform, uniting at bottom in three Fafciculi 
or Bundles, in each' Fafciculus 12 ; the 
Anthera roundifh and bilocular, 4. The 
Pollen bright fear let. 
PISTILLUM. The Germen oval, three Styles the 
length of the Germen, fpreading, the Stig- 
mata fmall and roundifh, Jig. 5. 
SEED-VESSELL a capsule fomewhat conical, of a 
brown colour, with three cavities, fig. 6, 7. 
SEEDS numerous, oblong and brown, fig. 8. 
THE antient Botanifts gave this Plant the name of Pulchrum, from its beauty ; and Linnaus has very 
properly continued it many will, no doubt, think it deferving of a place in .their gardens, it is fond of 
a clayey foil, and woody fituation, and is found in all the woods about town, as Hornsey Wood beyond 
IJlington, Oak of Honour Wood, (as it is generally called) a little beyond Peckham ; Charlton Wood by Green- 
wich, likewife on Hounslow-Heath ; it flowers in the month of July, and continues but a fhort time in 
bloflom. 
Its virtues as a medicine are probably the fame with the common St. John's Wort. 
