. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. ,28 HYPERICACEAE. Vol. II. of 1-7 carpels; styles as many as the carpels; ovules cc, in 2 rows in each cavity, anatropous. Fruit mainly capsular; seeds mainly straight; endosperm none. About 10 genera and over 300 species, mostly of temperate and warm regions. Sepals 4, in unequal pairs; petals 4. i. Ascynini. Sepals and petals 5. Petals yellov , convolute in the bud.
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. ,28 HYPERICACEAE. Vol. II. of 1-7 carpels; styles as many as the carpels; ovules cc, in 2 rows in each cavity, anatropous. Fruit mainly capsular; seeds mainly straight; endosperm none. About 10 genera and over 300 species, mostly of temperate and warm regions. Sepals 4, in unequal pairs; petals 4. i. Ascynini. Sepals and petals 5. Petals yellov , convolute in the bud. Leaves normal, not reduced to scales. Leaves reduced to minute appressed sericoides. I. Ascyrum stans ^lichx. St. Peter's- wort. Fig. Ascy, Michx. Fl. Bor. An 1803. Erect, simple or with a few upright branches, i°-2° high. Stems and bratiches 2-edged or slightly W'inged; leaves clasping, erect or ascending, oval, or broadly oblong, g'-iS" long, s"-7" wide, ob- tuse, thick; cymes terminal, few-flowered; pedicels 4"-6" long, 2-bracted below the middle; flowers 8"-i2" broad; outer sepals nearly orbicular, 4"-6" long, cordate, the inner lanceolate, 3"-6" long; petals obovate, longer than the sepals; styles 3 or 4, short; capsule ovoid, about 3" long. In dry sandy soil, especially in pine Island to Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas. July-Aug. 2. Ascyrum hypericoides L. St. Andrew's Cross. Fig. 2880. Ascyrum hypericoides L. Sp. PI. 788. 1753. Ascyrum Crux-Andreae L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 1107. 1763. Low, much branched from the base, diffuse or ascending, 5-10' high. Stems and branches flat- tened and 2-edged; leaves oblong or obovate, sessile, narrowed and 2-glandular at the base, l'-i4' long, 2"-4" wide, thin, obtuse; flowers terminal or also axillary; pedicels i"-3" long; 2-bracted near the summit; flowers 6"-g" broad; outer sepals oval or ovate, sometimes cordate, 4"-6" long, 2&qu
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