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VERBASCUM OVALIFOLIUM. OVAL- 
LEAVED MULLEIN. 
FH Ree 
Cla/s and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic CharaGer. 
Cor. rotata, fubinequalis. Cap/ 2-locularis, 2-valvis. 
Specific Chara&er and Synonym. 
VERBASCUM ovalifolium ; caule ereéto fimplici, foliis 
ovalibus feffilibus, dentato-crenatis fuperne 
glabriufculis, floribus {picatis. 
VERBASCUM ovalifolium. Donn Cat. ed. 4. p. 42 
ren, 
Descr. Root biennial. Stem round, ere&, fimple, tomentofe 
but not white. Leaves alternate, feffile, equidiftant, oval, 
crenate, with a {mall fharp tooth frequently growing from the 
rounded one, rugofe, naked on the upper furface and tomen- 
tofe on the under. Flowers in along fimple fpike, growing 
fingly and feffile. Braéfes 3, feffile and clofe to the calyx: 
middle ‘one orbicular-acuminate, fide ones narrower. Calyx 
woolly, white, 5-toothed: teeth conniving, acute. Corolla 
large, plain, yellow, deeply divided into 5 nearly orbicular 
lacinie, of which the two lateral ones are fomewhat the largeft. 
Stamens 5, of a deep orange colour: the three upper filaments 
and lunar anthers very hairy, the two lower ones almoft naked, 
and the anthers like half the upper ones and thinly bearded on 
one fide only : pollen orange-ccloured. Pifil green: Germen 
- globofe, very villous: Sty/e declined, the length of the ftamens: 
Stigma club-fhaped and flattened at top. Cap/ule globofe, two- 
valved, two-celled; diffepiment double, formed by the infle&ted 
Margins of the valves, and dilating into a central {pongy re- 
Ceptacle, Seeds rugofe brown, a 
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