POLYADELPHIA. POLYANDRIA. Hypehicum. 873 
Lob. Ic. i. 400. 1—Ger. Em. 541. 4 —Pet . 60. 8—Trag. 72. 2—J. B. iii. 
386. 1 —H. Ox. v. 6. 3. 
{Plant delicate, semi-transparent, pale green. Stems a span long, nume- 
rous, compressed, slender. Leaves oblong, smooth, set with glands near 
the edges, scored with semi-transparent lines. Floivers sometimes in 
pairs. Floral-leaves none. Calyx segments unequal, leafy and large, 
spear-shaped, terminated by a very small point, a little toothed at the 
edges, marked with dark purple spots and streaks. Petals yellow, with 
a tinge of red on the outside, set with a few blackish glands at the end. 
Stamens in three sets, five or six in each. Anthers without glands. 
Summit sometimes tinged with red. {Caps, red in ripening, a colour 
which the leaves assume in decay. Sm. E.) 
Var. 2. Leaves ternate. 
Trailing St. John’s Wort. (Welsh: Eurinllys man ymdaenawl. E.) 
Meadows, pastures, heaths, and woods. Ronck’s Wood, near Wor¬ 
cester. Stokes. Stuston Common, near Diss, Norfolk, (and in Richmond 
Gardens. E.) Mr. Woodward. Malvern Common, Worcestershire. Mr. 
Ballard. Wick Cliffs, Somersetshire. Mr. Swayne. Manchester race- 
ground. Mr. Caley. (Pentland Hills. Maughan. About Roslin. Gre- 
ville. Alcester Heath, Warwickshire: Astwood Common, Worcester¬ 
shire. Purton. Road side between Warwick and Leamington. Perry. 
In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. By the green-house, in the pleasure grounds at 
Wick House, near Bristol. E.) P. July. 
H. elo'des. Stem cylindrical, creeping, villous: leaves villous, 
roundish: panicle few-flowered. 
Dicks. H. S. — E. Bot. 109 —Pet. 60. 12. 
Stems six to eight inches long, trailing and creeping, chiefly hairy on the upper 
surface. Flowering branches ascending, five to six inches high. Leaves 
sessile, frequently slightly notched at the end, with five ribs, and with dots 
only visible with a glass, and against a strong light. Panicle branched, 
leafless. Floral-leaves oval-spear-shaped, minute, reddish, edged with 
red glands, a pair beneath each division. Calyx reddish, about one- 
fourth as long as the blossom, deeply divided; segments oval, edged 
with minute red glands. Blossom reddish yellow, with green stripes, 
usually closed, (opening only in sunshine, E.) twisted spirally, sometimes 
merely folded up. Woodward. Stem three to eight inches long. Petals 
yellow, with eight greenish lines, and a small greenish gland on the 
inner side of the claw. {Filaments much less deeply subdivided than in 
our other species. Caps, ribbed. Sm. E.) 
Marsh St. John’s Wort. (Irish: Beahnua Firionn. Welsh: Eurinllys 
y gors. E.) Marshy places, in peaty spongy soil. Boggy ground near 
Norwich. Mr. Woodward. Bog at Cosgarne, Cornwall. Mr. Watt. 
(Crosby, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. Near Gisborough, Yorkshire. 
Mr. Winch. Coleshill Bog and Pool. Purton. Shirley Common. Surry. 
Mr. W. Christy. Willesboro Leas, Kent. Mr. G. E. Smith. At Loch. 
Ramsay, and along the valley to Brodie in Arran. Mr. Murray. Hook. 
Scot. E.) Bogs on Birmingham Heath, (now enclosed and drained. E.) 
P. July—Aug. 
H. monta^num. Calyx prominently serrated with glands : stem cylin¬ 
drical, upright: leaves egg-shaped, smooth, (clasping the 
stem. B.) 
