( 3*8 ) 
which you faw in our I aft excurfion to the 
hills. 
\ 
Hyperi- No .15. Hypericumperforatum^ Co m - 
cum ' mon St. John's- wort; of the Clafs 
and Order Polyadelphla Polyandrla: 
you perceive, accordingly, that the 
numerous ftamina are united at the 
bottom in three/<z/aV#/z, not very dif- 
tinclly indeed, but fufficiently ob- 
vious to bring the plant within the 
pale of this Clafs. Linnaeus's cha- 
racter of this genus is Calyx quin~ 
quepartitus : Petala quinque : Filament a 
multa, in quinque phalanges bafi con- 
nata: Capfula fubrotunda But, in 
this plant, there are only three pha- 
lanxes vtjlamina: No matter. The 
character agrees with moft of the 
fpecies, of which there are no lefs 
than 42. Eight of thefe have been 
found in this kingdom, two of which 
are wanting in Cambridgefhire. This 
Hypericum perforatum is diftinguifhed 
by its being a ftraight flender plant, 
about two feet high; its upper 
branches terminated by yellow flow- 
er, with 3 divaricating^// in the 
centre 
