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FLORA OF FORFARSHIRE. 
Ord. xyiil— hypericineje. 
Gen.Br. 2. F. 2. Sp. Br. 14. F. 6. 
( Parnassia is placed in this order by Hook., but in Drose- 
racece By Bab.) 
Hypericum L. St John's Wort. 
Br. sp. 13. F. 5. 
H. quadrangulum , L. Square-stalked St. John's Wort. 
H. 62, B. 57- — F. July. P. (H. tetrapterum , Fries, &c.) 
Banks of a stream north side of Sidlaw Hills crossed by 
the new Glammis road. 
Banks of the North and South Esk, not rare, Mr J. 
CruicJcshanJc. Marshes about Rescobie, Mr A. Croall. 
H. 'perforatum , L. Common Perforated St John’s Wort. 
II. 63, B. 58. — F. June, August. P. 
Plentiful along the coast, particularly about Ninewells and 
Will's Braes. Mains, but introduced. 
Moor above the Bridge of Dun, Mr A. Croall. 
H. humifusum , L. Trailing St John’s Wort. H. 63, 
B. 58. — F. June, August. P. 
In various places throughout the county, though not very 
constant in its appearance, caused, no doubt, in some instances, 
by the more aspiring growth of other plants preventing its 
vegetation. Hedgebank, “ Forfar Loan,” a road leading 
from Stobswell to Trottick, by Mains Castle. Ditch banks 
near Gray, not far from the gardener’s house. In both these 
stations I have found it more or less plentifully, but in 1846 
failed to meet with it in either of them. By the wayside be- 
tween Brechin and Finhaven. Near Auchmithie, in the vi- 
cinity of the “ Gaylet Pot.” The place thus named is a vast 
hollow in a field adjoining the rocky shore, and into the bot- 
tom of which the foamy ocean surges through a magnificent 
subterraneous passage which it has cut for itself through the 
sandstone rock. 
Ditch-banks about a mile south-east from “ Dun’s Dish,” 
ditch-banks about Guthrie, and one mile east from Guthrie 
Castle, and there plentifully, the only locality in which I 
