1198 RHINANTHACEAE 
2 with m brownish patches: capsule 10-12 mm long. [A. M a 
Ea —Swamps and swales, Piedmont and more northern provinee 
, Minn., and N. 8.; des coe along rivers into Coastal Plain as re- 
ack 
ibd from Tum Fla.—Sur 
i8. VERBASCUM L. Erect, simple or virgately branched herbs, with a 
perennial or biennial tap-root. Leaves alternate: blades toothed or entire, those 
of the cauline sessile, clasping, or sometimes decurrent. Flowers in spikes, 
Sepals 5, uniform. Corolla rotate, slightly zygomorphie: lobes longer than the 
tube, all equally ean. the anterior larger than the posterior. ear 3 
Mec the filaments more or less lanose-pubescent. Stigma capita ap- 
sule ellipsoid to RE E septieidal. Seeds numerous, gray, Bu tuber- 
culate-lined, wingless.—About 250 species, natives of the Old World.—AIULLENS. 
Stem glabrous or with simple gland- tipped hairs above: leaves glabrous: filaments 
ali densely lanose with knobbed purple hairs: capsule sub- 
globose, glandular- a rulen . V. Blattaria. 
Stem pubescent with ee: glandiess hairs: leaves pubes t, 
beneath: filament nose with filiform Sens 
hairs, or ae anterior PE so or glabrous: capsule 
nt 
Leaf-blades crenate, glabrate above, the cauline sessile: pedi- 
cels usually several in an axil: sepals about half length 
E vded. 
of eapsule: inflorescence not de nsely crow 
Inflorescence a simple raceme, n pedi o one to five 
an axil: capsule globose, (ns leaves green 
and slightly pubescent benea 2. V. virgatum. 
lH a panicle of Ti on the pedicels three to 
'elve to an axil: capsule oblong or oblong-ovoid, 4-5 
m ong: leaves white and densely stellate- tomentose 
beneath. 3. V. Lychnitis. 
Leaf-blades entire or only obscurely crenate, densely D 
abo the cauline decurrent: pedicels one to 
eral as inte as the capsule: inflorescence densely card 4. V. Thapsus. 
V. Blattaria L. Stem 4-12 dm. tall, Pu dn or slightly branched, glandular- 
pubescent above: RP M blades 2-12 em. long, elliptic to ovate, doubly 
serrate-cr and 
(e als 5-8 mm. 
long, linear-lanceolate: corolla 25-30 mm. 
wide, yellow or white: capsule 
long,  glandular- pcm 
LEN.)— —Old fields and roads! 
provinces, C Fla. to “Cali, nd 
at. of Eurasia.—Sum.— 
irgatum With. 
c 
lane eolate, erenate, deep-green above 
up paler d pedicels 2-5 
ong, pu ubes s bos Ong, 
lanceolate: lle abou mm. w vide, yellow: capsule 7-8 mm. long, anil 
L4 
pubescent.—Waste- o. (eee Plain, S. C.; Calif.—Nat. of Eu.— 
3. V.Lychnitis L. Stem 8-10 dm. tall, usually much branched E above, 
floecose-tomentose with pu stellate hairs: cauline leaf-blades 10-20 em. long, 
elliptic-lanceolate to ovate -lanceolate, erenate, dark-green above, whitened be- 
neath: pedicels 2-10 mm. long, stellate-tomentose: sepals 2-3 mm. long, lanceo- 
