HYPERICUM E'LEGANS. 
ELEGANT ST. JOHN’s WORT. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. i:QUAI.l5. 
Natural Order. 
HYPERICACE.E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Siberia. 
If feet. 
June, July. 
1 Perennial. 
in 1822. 
No. 697. 
The derivation of Hypericum is given under 630. 
We are not aware that this exceedingly elegant 
Hypericum has ever been figured in any English 
work, although as a hardy ornamental plant, for 
the open garden, it is most desirable. Like most 
others of the genus Hypericum, its leaves have lit- 
tle pellucid dots, which contain an essential oil. 
Turner, noticing this fact, says If ye set y® leafe 
betwene yow and the sonne, ther shall appere an 
infinite nombre of holes in the leaues.” The most 
common British species, Hypericum perforatum, re- 
ferred toby the old author just mentioned, has long 
been famed for its virtues. Culpepper says, “it is 
as gallant a wound-herb as any is, either given in- 
wardly, or outwardly applied to the wound.” We 
have the evidence of a clergyman s lady that it is 
worthy of all praise. She simply infuses the flow- 
ers in olive oil, and this, her remedy for fresh 
wounds, is applied for by all her parishioners, as 
superior to every other application. 
Hypericum elegans will grow in any common 
garden mould, and admits of division of the roots 
for increase. Or, cuttings may be struck. 
Don’s Syst. Bot, 1,609. 
175 . 
