TRAILING St. JOHN’s WORT. 
HYPERICUM Linmel Gen. PI. Poltabelphia Polyandria. _ 
Cal. 5. partitus. Petala 5, Filamenta multa, m 5. phalanges bafi connata. 
Capfula. 
Raii. Syn. Gen. 24 Herb® pENTAPETALiE vasculiferje. 
HYPERICUM humifufiim Horibus trigynis axilkribus, folitarils, caulibus ancipitibus proftratis Bh- 
formibus, foliis glabris, hm. S^. regetab. p. 332. Sp. Pl. 1105. FI. Same. 681. 
HYPERICUM caule profirato, foliis ovatis, calycibus ferratis puiiSatis. Haller, biji. p. 5. n. 1039. 
HYPERICUM minus fupiiium vel fupinum glabrum. C. Bauh. pin. 279. 
HYPERICUM minus fupinum. Parh 572. 
HYPERICUM fupinum glabrum, Ger. emac. 541. Rail. Syn. p. 342. the leaft trailing St. Johns Wort. 
Hudfon. FI Angl. ed. 2. p. 332. 
JJghtfoot.Fl. Scot.p. 418. 
RADIX perennis, lutefcens, fibrofa. 
CAULES plures ex eadem radice, fpithamsi, procum- 
bentes, teretes, vix manifefte ancipites, laves, 
rubentes, fummitate ramofi. 
FOLIA oppofita, oblongo ovata, obtufa, glabra, inte- 
gerrima, margine punftis nigris notata. ^ ^ 
CALYX : Perianthium quinquepartitum, laciniis 
magnis, inaequalibus, ovato oblongis, margine 
reflexis et glandulis ferrato punftatis, mucrone 
rufo terminatis. i. 
COROLLA : Petala quinque, oblonga, flava, obtufa, 
calyce paulo longiora, margine glandulis 
pundtata.^. 2. .... 
STAMINA: Filamenta raro ultra viginti, intres 
phalanges diRindle divifa ; Anther.® mini- 
mae, flavae. 3. 
PISTILLUM: Germen fubrotundum , Styli tres, 
fimpiices, diftantes, longitudine flaminum; 
Stigmata fimplicia.j^. 4. 
PERICARPIUM : Capsula oblongo ovata, membra- 
nacea, trilocularis, immatura ruberrima. 
ROOT perennial, of a yellowilh colour and fibrous. 
STALKS feveral from the fame root, about half a foot 
in length, procumbent, round, fcarce percep- 
tibly two edged, fmooth, of a reddifh colour 
and branched at top. 
LEAVES oppofite, oblong, oval, obtufe, fmooth, en- 
tire, dotted on the edge with black. 
CALYX a Perianthium divided into five fegments, 
which are large, unequal, oval, oblong, the 
edge turned back and fawed as it were with 
black glands, terminating in a red point. i. 
COROLLA : five oblong yellow Petals, blunt at the 
end, a little longer than the calyx, and dotted 
on the edge with glands. Jig. 2. 
STAMINA: Filaments feldora more than twenty, 
diftindUy divided into three bodies ; Anther® 
very fmall and yellow. 3. 
PISTILLUM : Germen roundifti ; Styles three, fim- 
pie, fpreading, the length of the flamina ; 
Stigmata Ample, /g, 4. 
SEED-VESSEL an oblong oval Capfule, membranous, 
of three cavities, of a very bright red colour 
before it is ripe. 
SEEDS numerous and very minute. 
* This is the leaft of all our Hypericums, but fcarcely inferior to any of them In beauty and delicacy. 
It grows frequent enough, in gravelly paftures, in fields that have long lain fallow, and likewife on heaths, 
efpecially where the foil is moift and clayey. 
It flowers in June, July, and Auguft. 
ScoPoLi without any good grounds, fufpeas it to be a monftrous vareity oi th.t Hypericum perforatum, from 
which it differs almoft as much as it is poflible for one fpecies to differ from another. 
