Tas. 8853. 
~ VERBASCUM BLATTARIA, var. GRANDIFLORA. 
Europe. 
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' ScRoPpHULARIACEAE. Tribe VERBASCEAE. 
Verpascom, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 928. 
Verbascum Blattaria, Linn., var. grandiflora, Twrrill, varietas nova a 
planta typica habitu robustiore caule altiore floribus cremeis majoribus 
distinguenda. 
Herba; caulis circiter 1°3 m. altus, apicem versus ramis 2-3 instructus, inferne 
glaber, superne leviter minuteque glandulosus, foliorum caulinorum costis 
plus minusve decurrentibus. Folia basilaria in rosellam disposita, lineari- 
lanceolata, apice acuta, basi in petiolum angustata, 2 dm. longa, 4°5 cm. 
lata, profunde sinuato-lobata lobis dentatis, utrinque glabra, costa nervis- 
que pagina superiore impressis, inferiore conspicuis ; caulina breviora, 
ovato-lanceolata vel ovata. Inflorescentia terminalis, floribus in bractearum 
axillis solitariis ; bracteae ovato-lanceolatae, attenuato-acuminatae, circiter 
2°8 cm. longae, 1°3 cm. latae, inferiores majores, superiores minores, 
utrinque leviter glandulosae ; pedicelli 1:7 cm. longi, glandulosi, Calyx 
fere ad basin in laciniis 5 divisus, nonnihil irregularis, laciniis lanceolatis 
acutis glandulosis, abaxialibus lateralibusque 1 em. longis 3 mm. latis, 
adaxiale 9 mm. longo, 2 mm. lato. Corolla rotata, leviter zygomorpha, 
4-5 em. diametro, cremea, in centro purpurea et lobis adaxialibus pilis — 
clavatis purpureis instructis, ceteroquin glabra, lobis 5 suborbicularibus 
1°7 cm. longis, 2 cm. latis, 2 adaxialibus paulum minoribus. Stamina 
saepissime 5, filamentis pilis clavatis purpureis instructis, adaxiale 5 mm. 
longo, lateralibus 7 mm. longis, abaxialibus leviter sursum curvatis 9 mm. 
longis. Ovariwm ovoideo-sphaeroideum, 3 mm. altum, 8 mm. diametro, 
dense papilloso-glandulosum, pallide viride ; stylus 1°1 cm. longus, inferne 
pilis glandulosis tectus, purpureus ; stigma cylindricum, integrum, viride, 
_yix 1 mm. longum.—W. B. TurRRILL. 
Verbascum Blattaria, well known in gardens in this 
country, is also to be found, as a somewhat rare alien, in 
waste places from Lincolnshire southwards; in some of 
our southern counties it may perhaps be truly native. 
As a wild species it is widely spread in central and 
southern Europe, in northern Africa and in the Orient. 
Though it has long been in cultivation, the plant as 
grown in gardens seems always to have yellow corollas, 
though forms with the flower more or less white have 
occasionally been recorded in the wild state. The form 
OcropER—-DEcEMBER, 1920. 
