Hypericum majus (A.Gray) Britton

Hypericum Canadense, L. var. majus, Gray Man. Ed. 5# 86
(i 867).
A study bf .this plant in the field and herbarium leads me to
think that it »has good claim to specific rank. Its characters of
lanceolate, acute, 5 to 7-nerved leaves, greater size and longer
and sharper calyx-lobes seem quite constant. I have not seen it
growing with the typical H. Canadense. If they could be found
together, important evidence might be obtained. I do not pro-
pose here to elevate it to specific rank, but only to call attention
to it in the hope that it may be investigated. Its range is given
by Prof. Coulter (Bot. Gaz. xi. no) as “ Canada to Pennsylvania,
Illinois and about the Great Lakes,” but by Watson and Coulter in
the 6th editioorof Gray's Manual “L, Superior, Robbins, S. New
York and «southward.” These, are contradictory. Specimens
froq| Vermont, New Jersey, Illinois and Iowa are preserved in
the Columbia Herbarium.
Flora of New York State
Hypericum majus (A. Gray) Britton
Kerry Barringer, BKL, 1997
The University of Tennessee
Hypericum majus (Gray) Rusby
in Britt.
Det. David H. Webb
1980
Plants from the vicinity of Tannersville, Greene Co., N. Y.
Collected by Anna Murray Vail.
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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