CLASS XVIII. 
POLYADELPHIA. 
POLYANDRIA. 
HYPER'ICUM. Cal. with five divisions, beneath: Bloss . 
five petals: Styles one, three, or five : Capsule three to 
five-celled. 
POLYANDRIA. 
HYPER'ICUM.* Cal . with five deep divisions : Petals five : 
Filaments numerous, united at the base into three or 
five sets: Capsule with three or five cells, and many 
seeds. 
(1) Styles three; Stems shrub-like. 
H. ANDROSiE'MUM. Fruit like a berry: stem two-edged. 
Curt. 265 — (E. Bot. 1 225. E.)— Dod. 78. 2 — Lob. Obs. 357. 3, and Ic. i. 
632. 1— Ger. Em. 543. 1— Park. 576. 1-— Blackw. 94— Ger. 435— H. Ox. 
v. 6. 12. 
{Plant about two feet high; aromatic when rubbed. Root woody. E.) 
Leaves opposite,, sessile, smooth, entire, egg-shaped; at the base of the 
branches very large, those of the branches decreasing in size as they 
approach the summit, and nearly spear-shaped. Calyx segments une¬ 
qual. Berries black when ripe. Woodw. Flowers terminal, an inch 
over, four together. Fruit-stalks cylindrical, smooth. Calyx the outer 
segments much larger. Petals yellow, concave, striated, unequal at the 
end from a hollow in the margin on one side. 
Tutsan. Park-leaves. (Irish: Beahnua Firion. Welsh: Creulys 
bendiged; Gwaed y gwyr. E.) Woods and moist hedges. Woods at 
Wick Cliffs, near Bath. Rev. G. Swayne. Near Pengwarry, Cornwall, 
in ditches. Mr. Watt. Duke of Bridgewater’s woods at Askeridge, and 
near Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire : (also at Field Bailing, Norfolk. Mr. 
Woodward. E.) Lanes at the foot of Malvern Hill, Worcestershire. 
Dr. Stokes. Rocky woods in Westmoreland, frequent. Mr. Gough. In 
a deep hollow way in a marly soil between Worcester and Tewkesbury. 
* (From vire§, against; and ewu>v, an image or spirit; it being considered an amulet or 
preservative from evil spirits* E.) 
