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blood STAIN’D HYPERICUM. 
HYPERICUM MONOGYNUM, 
T H E Duke of Northumberland, born to improve as wUI , • . 
adJcd this elegant Plant to the European fiLny. This Nobtr'^fi'l" 
here from Seeds obtain’d from China, a very few years fince • and f 
the curious gardens now are ftocked with it. Tho’ a native of the EastTi 
air with us, and flowers all Summer : our Winters arc too fliarp for its In’ 
in that ft.atc, but in any part of Europe, a few decrees more fouth ir "f A 
and flower all the year. With us only the fuperfieies dies in Winter ■ thl Rr^ 
and fends uji a new Shrub early the following Sjiring. ’ ^ ''‘•mains, 
-Tis a yard high : firm in the Stem, and varioufly branch’d : it forms a fine wild Shrub 
The Buds are very large, and tho’ their general colour be yellow, they 
in irregular ftreaks and oblong Blotches, with an abfolute blood-red. 
are always ftain’d 
When the Flower opens, the whole inner Surface is a fine yellow; but behind this 
flaming of the Bud preferves itfelf in all its luftre : and as the Flowers droop or bend ac 
cidentally, or as the winds move them, thefc crimfon ftains are feen upon the back and 
make a fine variety. ’ 
The Stem is cover’d with a browii, rough Bark, and often from its Ridges has a fquare 
afpeft : the Leaves are firm, and tho’ there be fome fliff-nds in the manner of their growth. 
It IS fingular, and upon the whole not unpleafing. They are not pierc’d with thofe fmall 
holes which we fee in the Leaves of common Hypericum, when held up to the light. 
The Filaments are numerous in this Flower, but they are colledled by nature into five 
p ate Clufters . this fhews the clafs to which the Plant belongs, the Polyadelpui.a. 
he number of thefe arrangements, into which the Flaments are join’d, is not efl'ential, 
y It mufl: be more than two. This diipofition of the Filaments is not eafily feen in the 
entire Flower, becaufe thofe of each arrangement cohere only at their Safes ; but if they 
e pull d out of the Flow’er, they come aw'ay always in thefe five Clufters ; and the Bale 
0 eac 1 Clufter is fbmething more than an union of fo many Filaments ; there is a folid, 
ong, flefhy fubftance, from which they take their rife. 
Nature has been very fparing of the Polyadelphous Plants ; befides the Hypericums and 
yrums, we know only the Cocoa, and the Orange kind. 
^ Among the Hypericums, fome have five Styles, fome three, and others two. This has 
Kn fuppofed to have only one : but the Summit of that one is plainly dii-idcd into five ; 
" t e body of the Style is form’d of the continuations of thefe five diftinft Parts ; only 
w d by one flight Membrane, and terminating in five Cells, in the Seed-vcflcl. 
) prricuiTi florlbus monogynis i Raminibus corolla longioribus ■, calycibus coloraiis ; caiilc fruricor<*. 
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