HYPERICUM calycinum.
Largt-flowered St. Johns-wort.
POLYADELPHIA Polycmdria.
G en. Char. C a l . deeply 5-cleft, inferior. Pet. 5 .
Filaments numerous, united at the base into 5 or 5
sets. Caps, with many seeds.
S pec. Char. Styles five. Flowers solitary. Stem
shrubby, branched, quadrangular. Segments o f the
calyx obovate, obtuse. Leaves oblong.
S yn. Hypericum calycinum. Linn. Mant. 106. A it.
Hort. Kew. v. 3 . 103. Curt. Mag. t. 146 • excluding
Bauhin’s synonym..
W e- add to our Flora another Hypericum without the least
scruple. This species, erroneously suspected by Linnaeus to
be of American origin, is known by the authority of Sir
George Wheler and of Professor Sibthorp to grow in woods
about the village of Belgrad, near Constantinople. Our
specimen was gathered by Mr. Drummond, curator of the
new botanic garden of Cork, and sent us by Mr. Hincks, secretary
to the Cork Institution. The plant grows in great
abundance 3 miles from Cork in the way to Bandon, in those
gentlemen’s opinion, perfectly wild, nor, when we consider
the climate and exposure, and how little Ireland has been
scientifically examined, can we doubt it. We had hoped that
Bauhin’s Pyrenaean Ascyrum magno flare, Prod. 130, might
prove the same ; but a manuscript note of Linnaeus, made on
examining Burser’s herbarium, asserts that to be his H. As-
cyron, and not calycinum. Morison has figured our plant,
sect. 5. t. 35. f . 2, but his description is a miserable mass of
error.
This very handsome plant is a great and frequent ornament
to shrubberies, growing under trees, and flowering all summer
long. The roots creep. The stems are shrubby; branches
simple, leafy, square, each terminated by a flower larger than
in any other Hypericum, of a rich golden yellow, with 5,
rarely 4, styles. The petals are often lobed. The leaves are
sessile, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, entire, punctate, paler beneath.
No plant is so difficult as this to fasten, by any
known cement, to paper when dried.
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