mens measuring eight feet. Of the size and beauty of its 

 raceme and the number of the flowers, our readers can form 

 some idea from the accompanying figure, which was made from 

 a noble specimen, sent from the College Botanic Garden by 

 our often-mentioned friend Mr. Mackay. The same plant is 

 possessed by the Botanic Gardens of Glasgow and Kew. 

 Pohl has represented the flowers blue, the artist being de- 

 ceived no doubt from the appearance of the dried specimens. 



Descr. Root perennial. Stem erect, herbaceous, six to 

 eight feet high, leafy, simple, with a habit and foliage some- 

 what resembling those of our great Mullein, Verbascum 

 Thapsus (whence the specific name), stout, obtusely angled 

 and furrowed, within filled with a soft, white pith. Leaves 

 broadly-lanceolate, attenuated below, but sessile, the inferior 

 ones a foot or a foot and a half long, all soft and finely downy, 

 dentato-cihate, closely and regularly penninerved. Raceme 

 very large, pyramidal, covered with rather large, densely 

 imbricated flowers, so dense as to appear spicate. Bracteas 

 linear-lanceolate, reflexed. Pedicels also reflexed when in 

 flower, especially the lower ones. Corolla rose-purple, hairy, 

 or rather silky when seen under the microscope. Column of 

 stamens nearly as long as the corolla. Anthers lead-color, 

 the two lower ones bearded. The seeds, which are unknown 

 to authors, are compressed (lenticular), margined, but not 

 broadly winged like those of Z. uranocoma, Cham. 



Fig. 1. Column of Stamens, including the Style : magnified. 



