HYPERICUM humifusum.
Trailing St. Johns Wort.
POLYADELPHIA Polyandria.
Gen. Char. Cal. deeply 5 -cleft, inferior. Pet. 5 .
Filaments numerous, united at the base into 3 or 5
sets. Caps, with many seeds.
S p e c . C h a r . Styles three. Flowers somewhat cymose.
Stem compressed, prostrate. Leaves elliptical,
smooth.
Syn. Hypericum humifusum. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 1 0 5 .' Sm.
FI. Brit. 8 0 3 . Hud». 3 3 2 . With. 6 6 5 . Hull. 167-
Relh. 2 9 5 . Sibth. 2 3 3 . Abbot. 1 6 5 . Curt. Land.
fasc. 3 . t. 5 0 .
H. minus supinum. Raii Syn. 3 4 3 .
F r e q u e n t in gravelly or sandy pastures and on boggy
heaths, flowering from June to August.
Root perennial, fibrous. Herbage smooth. Stems several,
prostrate, slender, leafy, varying in length, slightly compressed,
more or less branched. Leaves sessile, opposite, elliptical,
entire, dotted, of a thin membranous texture, and of
a palish green, especially beneath. Flowers on short simple
stalks from the upper part of the stem, generally forming a
sort of forked corymbus. Their colour is a bright uniform
yellow. The segments of the calyx are broad and leafy, their
edges toothed with purple glands, as are also the margins of
the petals. Stamina, styles and germen yellow. The fruit
turns red as it ripens, and the lower leaves assume the same
hue.
In a certain lemon-like scent, as well as its general colouring,
this plant agrees most with H. dulium and perforatum ;
but its procumbent mode of growth, few flowers, and more
leafy calyx, serve easily to distinguish it.
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