POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, iSi 
CLASS xvm. 
POLYADELPHIA. 
^his clafs comprehends fuch plants as have hermaphrodite 
flowers^ and many difiinU bodies of Jiamina, We have 
only one genus of englilli plants belonging to this clafs^ 
namely^ the Hypericum which is of the Polyadelphia 
Polyandria, 
FIYPERICUM. ' St John’s Wort. 
T he cup is divided into four ovate, concave, 
perrnanent fegments. The flower confifts ot 
five obiong-ovate, obtufe, patent petals, marked with 
dots according to the motion of the fun. The 
filaments are numerous, capillary, and unite at the 
bafe into five or three diftindl bodies, having fmall 
antheras. The germen is roundifn. There are three 
(fometimes one, two, five) Ample flyles that (land off 
each other, and the length of the ilamina with Am- 
ple ftigmata. The capfule is roundifh, having as 
many cells as there are ftyles, containing many ob- 
long feeds. 
Perforatum, St John^s Wort with three fiyles to 
the flowers, a two edged fialk, obtufe leaves with 
pellucid fpots. In thickets and hedges. Per, July, 
Humifufum, 
