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HY P E R I CUM pulchrum.
Small upright St. John s Wort.
POLYADELPHIA Polyandria.
G e n . C h a r . 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. Calyx with glandular ser-
ratures. Stem erect. Leaves clasping the stem,
heart-shaped, smooth.
S y n . Hypericum pulchrum. Linn. Sp. PI. 1106. Sm.
FI. Brit. 804. Huds. 2,2,2. With. 667- Hull. 168.
Relit. 295. Sihth. 234. Abbot. 166. Curt. Lond.
fasc. 1. t. 56. Dicks. H. Sicc. fasc. 16. 13.
H. pulchrum Tragi. Raii Syn. 342.
T h i s , one of the most elegant of its genus, grows frequently
among bushes o n commons and heaths, either on a clay or
gravelly soil, flowering in July, when its tall straight slender
panicled stems, bearing numerous yellow buds tipped with red,
intermixed with already expanded flowers, are no less conspicuous
than beautiful.
The root is woody and perennial. Stem round. Whole
plant smooth. Leaves convex, firm and rigid, dotted, dark-
green above with a glaucous tinge, paler beneath; they are
sessile, heart-shaped and entire, generally deflexed 5 the lowermost
soon become perfectly red. The calyx-leaves are elliptical,
toothed with dark glands, and furrowed. Petals of a
golden yellow, externally tipped with scarlet; their edge glandular.
Antherse red ; which contributes to enliven the flowers.
Capsule small, brown.
We know not that this plant has any thing but beauty to
recommend it. We conclude with it the history of the British
Hyperica, all of which, as far as hitherto known, have
now appeared in the present work.