2851.
HYPERICUM linariifolium.
Toad-flax-leaved St. John’s fVort.
PO LYADELPHIA Polycmdria.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partite or 5-leaved. Petals 5.
Capsules 1-or 3-celled, many-seeded. Stamens
in 3 or 5 bundles.
Spec. Char. Stem terete. Flowers terminal, cy-
mose. Sepals lanceolate, acute ; their margins
with numerous black spots and glandular serra-
tures. Leaves linear, obtuse, their margins revolute.
Stamens about 30. Styles half as long
as the capsule.
Syn. Hypericum linarifolium. Vahl Symh. v. 1. 65.
Bab. Prim. FI. Sam. 20.
H. linariæfolium, St. Am. Fl. Algen.316.
H. linearifolium. DeCand. Prod. v. 1. 552. Bot.
Gall. 98. Loisel. FI. Gall. v. 2. 168. Desv.
FI. Anj. 286. Hook. Br. FI. ed. 4. 282.
I t gives us great pleasure to be able to present to the
purchasers of this Supplement a figure of a plant so little
known as that before us, which appears to be confined to the
extreme western parts of Europe, not having been noticed,
it is believed, in any country except Portugal, the western
provinces of France, Jersey, Devonshire, and Cornwall. In
a dried state it presents very much the appearance of a
marked variety of H. humifusum, t. 1226, but it will not be
confounded with that species when seen in a living state.
Stems erect, or slightly procumbent at their bases, terete,
from six inches to a foot or more in length. Leaves linear,
obtuse, their margins revolute, with a marginal row of black