870 POLYADELPHIA. POLYANDRI A. Hypericum* 
(Toxteth Park, near Liverpool ; Petigown, Isle of Mull. Dr. Bostock. 
Frequent in Norfolk, as at North Walsham, Costesy, and other places. 
Sir J. E. Smith. Woods at Loch Long, Scotland. Mr. Winch. Inve¬ 
rary. Lightfoot. About Critchel House, Henbury, and Grange in Pur- 
beck. Pulteney. In Eastwear Bay, Kent. Mr. G. E. Smith. In stony, 
hollow lanes about Selborne, Hants. White’s Nat. Hist. Cacan’r, Ychen, 
near Beaumaris. Welsh Bot. By the side of the great road near Cwm 
Delhi, at the foot of Snowdon, leading from Capel Cerig to Beddgelert, Car¬ 
narvonshire. Stream side below Ogwell mill, near Newton, Devon; 
together with Aconitum Napellus : also somewhat more than half way up 
a lane leading from Bitton Mill, near Teignmouth, to Haldon. E.) 
P. July—Sept.* 
(2) Styles three ; stems herbaceous. 
H. quadran'gulum. Leaves egg-shaped, with pellucid dots: stem 
quadrangular. 
Curt. 231— (E. Bot. 370. E.)— FI. Dan. 640 —Trag. 73. 2 —Matth. 937- 
Doc?. 78. 1— Lob. Obs. 216, and Ic. 399. 1— Ger. Em. 542— Park. 575— 
Ger. 434 —LI. Ox. v. 6. 10—Pc?. 60. 11. 
Stem often reddish, one to two feet high, branched; edges membranous, 
marked with short dark-purple glandular streaks. Leaves crossing each 
other in pairs, sessile, oblong-egg-shaped, ribbed, dotted along the edges 
with black glands, particularly on the under side. Calyx , segments 
ribbed, rather expanding, a little toothed at the end. ( Flowers only half 
the size of the last, forming a leafy, dense panicle. E.) Petals yellow, 
ribbed, concave, generally marked with dark-purple lines and dots, filled 
with a purple liquor, which stains paper permanently. Anthers with a 
small black gland. Styles yellow. Summits purple. ( Plant yielding a 
lemon-like odour. Sm. E.) 
Square-stalked St. John’s Wort. St. Peter’s Wort. (Welsh: 
Ewrinllys pedrongl. E.) Moist hedges and shady places. Bogs in 
Cornwall. Mr. Watt. Wick Cliffs. Mr. Swayne. About Manchester. 
Mr. Caley. (Dickenson’s Dingle, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. In 
Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Ditch by Blackford farm house. Mr. Neill. 
Grev. Edin. not unfrequent in Scotland. At Mottershall, near Stone, 
Staffordshire. E.) P. July—(Aug. E.) 
H. perfora'tum. Stem two-edged : leaves blunt, with pellucid dots. 
Ludw. 11— Curt. — E. Bot. 295— Mill. III. — Blackw. 15— Woodv. p. 29— El. 
Dan. 1043— Kniph. 3— Dod. 76. 1— Lob. Obs. 216. 1, and Ic. i. 398. 1— 
* (Often admitted into gardens, and ornamental in front of shrubberies. Formerly 
esteemed for medicinal qualities, and therefore denominated Tutsan, Taut-saine , q. d. All¬ 
heal; but its real merits, if any, are little understood. The leaves, given in substance, were 
supposed to destroy worms. By distillation, they yield an essential oil. The dried plant 
boiled in water with alum dyes yarn of a yellow colour ; and the Swedes give a fine purple 
tinge to their spirits with the flowers. Cows, goats, and sheep eat it; horses and swine 
refuse it. The Rev. Hugh Davies entertains no doubt that this plant has a claim to the 
Welsh name Gwaed y gwi/r, (Androsaemum, ApSpog aiya, man’s blood), prior to Satnbucus 
Ebulus , because, if the yellow flowering tops are bruised between the fingers, they will 
immediately communicate a deep crimson stain. The Ebulus claims it on the strength of 
a fabulous tale, that the plant originally sprung from the blood of the Danes slain in 
Britain, whence also its English name Dane-wort, E.) 
