Tas. 7707. 
VERBASCUM toneironium. 
Native of S. Italy and the Balkan. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHuLaRINE#.—Tribe VERBASCEA. | 
Genus VerBascum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 928.) 
Versascum (Thapsus) longifolium ; elatum, robustum, bienne, albido- v. luteo- 
floccosum, foliis dense superpositis undulatis caulem simplicem velantibus 
oblongo-ovatis-lanceolatisve acuminatis infimis majoribus patulis 14-2- 
pedalibus breviter petiolatis superioribus angustioribus suberectis sessili- 
bus basi amplexicaulibus,* racemo inter folia sessili pedali spiceformi 
stricto cylindraceo 34 poll. diam. obtuso, ramulis appressis v. raro elon- 
gatis, bracteis filiformibus, floribus dense congestis breviter pedicellatis, 
calycis stellatim tomentosi lobis lanceolatis acuminatis, corolla explanato- 
concava aurea pollicem lata, filamentis 3 brevioribus albido- v. violaceo- 
lanatis, antheris parvis connectivo villoso, 2 longioribus glaberrimis 
_ antheris multo majoribus lunatis ochraceis nudis, ovario hirtello basique 
__- styli stellatim tomentoso. 
V. longifolium, Tenore Fl. Neap. Prodr. p. 16; Syll. Pl. Vasc. Fl. Neap. 
110; Fl. Napol. vol. i. p. 89, t. 21. Bertoloni #7. Ital. vol. ii, p. 595. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 228. Parlat. Fl. Ital. vol. vi. p. 579, 
Arcang. Compend. Fl. Ital. p. 504. Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 304, 
Baldacci in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. vi. (1899) 338. 
V. pannosum, Vis. ea Panc. in Mem. Ist. Venet. vol. xii. (1866) p. 475. 
Velenovsky, Flor. Bulg. Suppl. i. 207. 
V. montanum, tomentosum, &e., Tilli, Cat. Pl. Hort. Pisan. p. 171 (1728). 
Verbascum longifolium is a stately species, remarkable, 
under the form here figured and described, for its extra- 
ordinarily abundant undulate sinuate foliage, and the 
massive columnar inflorescence of which the branches are 
_ closely appressed to the axis. This, however, may be only 
an extreme form, for the inflorescence is said by Boissier 
to be either‘simple or branched. The woolly hairs of the 
short filaments are both figured and described by Tenore 
as purple in the Italian plant, but by Bertoloni and 
Arcangeli as white; by Gussone as white below and 
purple above; Boissier says white, but his description 
probably applies to Macedonian or Servian specimens. 
Its habitats recorded by Boissier are mountains near 
Bitolia, in Macedonia, at an elevation of three thousand 
five hundred to four thousand six hundred (French) feet, 
Servia, and Southern Italy. In the last named country 
_® Not “cordatis,” as might be supposed from the figure. 
Apriu Ist, 1900. 
