HYPERICUM ORIGANIFOLIUM, Willd.
HYPERICUM , (Tourn.) Spach, Hist, des Plantes phan. (in Suites à Buffon), vol. 5, p. 38a ; id., in Annales des Sciences
Hat., ae sér., vol. 5, p. 356.
C alyx 5-partitus, persistens, accrescens : sepalis æqualibus y. inæqualibus, integerrimis,
V. serrulatis, v. fimbriatis, post anthesin ercclis :(univii specie nflcxis'j ; lacinula1 glandulosæ.
Disens receptaculo adnatus, plerumquè obsoletes. P etala 5, marcescentia (speciebus paucis
decidua'), exappendiculata, obliqua, sub anthesi patentia, plana, dein contorta v. convo-
luta, reflexa, v. conniventia. S tamina triadelpha, marcescentia [speciebuspaucis cumpetalis
decidua) : androphoris brevissimis, 5-3o-andris, basi cum disco confluentibus. F ilamenta
capillaria. An th e sæ reniformes v. cordato-subrotundæ, glaudulâ (sæpissimè opacâ) dorso
adnatâ coronatæ. G landulæ-v. squamulæ-hypogynæ nullæ. O varium 3-loculare, 3-sulcum
ovoideum, 3-stylum; ovulis subhorizontalibus,in quovis loculo 2-v. pluri-seriatis, copiosis.
S tyli filiformes, divergentes, subrecti. S tigmata truncata v. subglobosa, papillulosa ( sub
lente), minuta. C apsula chartacea, v. cartilaginea, v. coriacea, vittulata, v. verrucosa
3-sulca, v. trigona, 3-locuIaris, septicidè 3-valvis, polysperma : placenta pyramidali v. fili-
formi, trigona, centrali, demùm adissepimentis membranaceis solutâ; valvis navicularibus
dorso convexis, apice divergentibus, cum placentâ persistentibus. S emina recta v. subrecta
cylindracea, teretia, aptera, subhorizontalia : integumento triplici : extimo membranaceo
opaco, ultra subjacentem crustaceum adhærentem haud producto; intimo tenerrimo
membranaceo, pellucido, inadhærente. E mbryo rectus : radicula columnari, tereti obtusâ
hilo contiguâ; cotyledonibus tenuibus, plano-convexis, brevissimis.
Plante sæpissimè pluri-caules. R adix- primaria perpendicularis, perennis, demùm lignosa.
C aules sæpissimè herbacei, annui : basi tamèn perenni, caudicem demùm lignosum (haud
rarô radicantem) caules novellos gignentem sistentes; species nonnullæ caulibus ramisque
reverb frutîcosis gaudent. F olia sessîlia v. brevè petiolata, marcescentia, exarticulata
{speciebus paucis basi articulata, indèque Tetula decidua), opposità (ra rà verticillata) ,
integerrima v. nonnunquàm denticulata aut fimbriata, sæpissimè vesiculis pellucidis (sæ-
pèque etiam vesiculis majoribus opacis v. glandulis sessilibus) punctulata (quibus sæpiùs
pari modo instruuntur bracteæ, sepala petalaque) : radicalia (per plante infantiam solùm
obvia ) caulinaque infima minima ; sequentia gradatïm majora ; summa plerumquè in brac-
teas transeuntia, P edunculi ( v. ramuli-florifer i ) terminales v. axillares terminalesque,