96 Hypericum Bonaparteae.
I have dedicated this species of St. John’s Wort, to Princess Charlotte,
now Countess de Surveilliers, in testimony of my personal respect
for her, and my veneration for her name.
“ A very elegant plant, from one to two and a half feet high. The
branches are divaricating, slender, appressed, and frequently indexed
or curved downward, and crowded with numerous leaves, much
narrower than the stem leaves, less obtuse,-, and even inclining to
acute. From the axills of the stem leaves proceeds a cluster of five
or six sub-linear, obtuse leaves, which appear to arise from abortive
branches. The flowers are yellow, about the size of those of H.
corymbosum. 1 discovered this new species about four, (now nine)
years since, in a rich, wet or swampy meadow, on the lower edge of
Lansdowne’s grounds, close to the Schuylkill, not far above Beck’s
island. It there grows in profusion, but I have not found it elsewhere.
It stands in my Prodromus, No. 6, without a name, not being certain
at the time I published that work, that it was undescribed.” Barton’s
Comp. FI. Ph. Vol. II. p. 15.
The figure represents the plant the size of nature.
IN D E X
OF
BOTANICAL NAMES AND SYNONYMS.
The synonyms are in italics.jgfs
A.
Aster linariifolius - - 91
Anemone hepatica - I - 45
B.
Bartonia ornata - 29
Bartonia decapetala - 30
c.
Cephalanthus Occidentalis - 56
Chelone glabra pi - 16
Clethra acuminata - - - 1
Coreopsis verticillata - 7
Cypripedium pubescens - 9
Cypripedium humile - 35
Chelone glabra, <* . - - 16
Chelone penstemon - - - - 88
Clethra montana - 1
Cteissium paniculatum - 47
Cypripedium acaule ä - - - 35
Cypripedium flavescens - - - 9
Cypripedium calceolus - ,. 9
Cyprepedium calceolus, ß. - - 9
Cynanchum obliquum - - - 79
t).
Dentaria laciniata - - - - ,4
Draba verna - - - - - 49
Dentaria concatenata - - - 4
Draba hispidula - - - - 49
Draba verna, ß. Americana - - 49
E.
Eupatorium maculatum - - - 85
G.
Gentiana crinita - - - - 27
Gentiana saponaria - - - 24