The country is everywhere intersected with trenches for iron-washing, and some large marshes were dammed up for the same purpose: in these we found some beautiful balsams, hypericum and Parnassia; also a diminutive water-lily, the flower of which is no larger than a half-crown; it proves to be the Nymphaea pygmaea of China and Siberia-a remarkable fact in the geographical distribution of plants.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker
Thus, also, the oldest magicians speak with profound reverence of the powers of a little herb, known to botanists as hypericum perforatum L., and behold!
"Modern Magic"
Maximilian Schele de Vere
hypericum came out gloriously, when an intrusive and overgrown lilac bush was cut away; and syringa was almost as good as jessamine, Rotha thought; little red poppies began to lift their slender heads, and pansies appeared, and June roses were getting ready to bloom.
"A Letter of Credit"
Susan Warner