POLYADELPHIA. POLYANDRIA. H-stpebicur*. 875 
in distant pairs, heart or obtusely egg-shaped, green above, sea-green be¬ 
neath, with numerous semi-transparent dots. Flowering-branches from 
the bosom of the upper leaves, slender, with one or more flowers at the 
end, and one or two small leaves. Floral-leaves none. Calyx very short, 
deeply divided; segments oval, blunt; glands black. {Blossom golden 
yellow, reddish on the outside. E.) Petals set at the edge with black 
glands. Woodw. Leaves in opposite pairs. Filaments shining, yellow, 
in three sets, above eighteen in each. Anthers scarlet. 
Small Upright St.John’s Wort. (Welsh: Eurinllys man syth. E.) 
. Hedges and heaths, in exposed sunny situations. Heaths near Nor¬ 
wich. Mr. Crowe. Heaths in Hertfordshire. Mr. Woodward. Wick 
Cliffs. Mr. Swayne. On a sloping bank near the wall on the east side of 
Edgbaston Park. Miss Charlotte Withering. (Knot’s Hole, near Liver¬ 
pool ; Lady’s Isle, Loch Katrine. E.) Dr. Bostock. About Betchworth, 
Surry. Mr. Winch. Oversley woods, and Ragley woods, Warwickshire. 
Purton. Kirkland, Patterdale, and Keswick. Hutchinson. On gorsey 
banks, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Pentland Hills, Roslin woods, and 
King’s Park. Greville. E.) P. June—July. 
(H. barba'tum. Calyx and petals fringed and dotted: leaves ovate, 
dotted, clasping the stem: stem erect, slightly angular. 
Jacq. Austr. 269 — E. Bot. 1986. 
Stems' a foot or more in height, leafy, straight, scarcely branched except at 
top; round and purplish at the bottom. Leaves sessile, opposite, 
bluntish, entire, slightly revolute, smooth, veiny, sprinkled on both sides 
with dark purplish glandular dots. Flowers yellow, in a terminal, leafy, 
upright, forked panicle: bracteoe and calyx-leaves spear-shaped, dotted, 
strongly and copiously fringed with long pale glandular hairs. Petals 
obovate, minutely fringed or toothed, dotted. Stamens in three sets. 
Anthers orbicular. Styles three. E. Bot. 
Bearded St. John’s Wort. This beautiful species was discovered by 
Mr. G. Don, by the side of a hedge near the wood of Aberdalgy in Strath 
Earn, Perthshire. P. Sept.—Oct. E.) 
(3) Styles five ; stems shrub-like. 
(H. caly'cinum. Flowers solitary : stem branched, quadrangular: seg¬ 
ments of the calyx obovate, blunt: leaves oblong. 
Jfi. Bot. 2017— Curt. Mag. 146— Jacq. Fragm. 6. 4— H. Ox. 35. 2—fig. only. 
Roots creeping. Branches simple, leafy, square, each terminated by a 
Jlower larger than in any other Hypericum, of a rich golden yellow, with 
five, rarely four, styles. Petals often lobed. Leaves sessile, elliptic-ob¬ 
long, entire, paler beneath. Anthers numerous, reddish. E. Bot. In our 
specimens the leaves are neither decidedly blunt, nor punctate, as de¬ 
scribed in E. Bot. Flowers growing singly ; petals nearly one and a half 
inch long. 
Large-flowered St. John’s Wort. This showy plant was brought to 
England by Sir G. Wheeler in 1676, from its native woods about Bel- 
grad, near Constantinople; is said not to grow indigenously in the inter¬ 
mediate countries ; but it has been found recently in considerable abun- 
