. 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. 8. Hj^iericum cistifolium Lam. Round- podded St. John"s-\vort. Fig. 2888. Hypericum cistifolium Lara. Encycl. 4: 158. 1797. H. sphacrocarpum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 78. 1803. Simple or branching, erect or ascending from a somewhat woody perennial base, l°-2i° high; stems 4-angled. Leaves oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, ij'-3' long, 3"-6" wide, often wit
. 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. 8. Hj^iericum cistifolium Lam. Round- podded St. John"s-\vort. Fig. 2888. Hypericum cistifolium Lara. Encycl. 4: 158. 1797. H. sphacrocarpum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 78. 1803. Simple or branching, erect or ascending from a somewhat woody perennial base, l°-2i° high; stems 4-angled. Leaves oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, ij'-3' long, 3"-6" wide, often with smaller ones in the axils; cymes terminal, several or many-flowered, naked; flowers sessile or nearly so, 5"-8" broad; sepals linear, lanceolate or ovate, much shorter than or equalling the petals; sta- mens numerous, distinct; styles 3, united below; capsule strictly l-celled, globose or ovoid-conic, 2"-2j'' long; seeds larger than in related species, rough-pitted. On rocky banks, southwestern Ohio to Iowa, Kan- sas, .\labama and .Arkansas. July-Sept. Hj^ericum Bissellii Robinson, known only from Soutbington, Connecticut, has smaller leaves, the cyme leafy-bracted, the sepals very unequal. 9. Hypericum dolabriforme Vent. Straggling St. John"s-\vort. Fig. 2889. Hypericum dolabrifonne Vent. Hort. Cels. pi. 4j. 1800. Straggling and branching, decumbent, 6-20' high; branch- lets slightly angled. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 8"-2o" long, l"-2" wide, acute or obtusish, spreading or ascending, with smaller ones clustered in 'the axils; cymes terminal, leafy, few-several-flowered; pedicels about *" long; flowers nearly l' broad; sepals foliaceous, lanceolate or ovate, acute or acuminate, nearlj' or quite as long as the oblique pointed petals; stamens numerous, distinct; styles 3. united below; capsule ovoid-conical, coriaceous, 3"-4" long, i-celled; seeds rugose. On dry hills, barrens of Kentucky and Tennessee to Georgi
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