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Verbascum Phceniceum. Purple- 

 Flowered Mullein, 



Oafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 

 Cor. rotata, fubinasqualis. Cap/. 2-locularis, 2-valvis. 



Specific CharatJer and Synonyms, 



VERBASCTJM phceniceum ,- foliis ovatis nudis crcnatis radU 

 calibus, caule fubnudo racemofo. Syfi. Veg. 

 219. Willd. Sp. PI. 1. p. 1004. Reich. 1. 

 495. Jacq. Aujlr. t. 125. Pall. It. 1. p. 183. 

 Scop. Cam. n. 250. Hort. Kezv. 1. p. 237. 

 Allion. Ped. n. 384. Gcertn. Fruct. i. p. 262. 



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VERBASCUM flore caeruleo vel purpureo. Bauh. Hijl. 3- 



p. 875. 

 BLATTARIA perennis, flore violaceo. Morif, Hijl. 2. 



/>• 497- 

 BLATTARIA purpurea. Bauh. Pin. 241. Raii Hi/l. 1096. 



BLATTARIA flore purpureo. Park, Hijl. 64. Ger.emacjjG^, 



The Mulleins are all fhewy plants ; this fpecies, a native 

 of the fouthern parts of Europe, having bright, purple flowers 

 is very ornamental, and has been long thought worthy of 

 cultivation, being feen in our gardens before the time of 

 Gerard. Is a perfectly hardy perennial, " the roote (as 

 Parkinson obferves) abiding fundry ycares," though fome 

 have fuppofed it to be only biennial, an error ftill handed 

 down in Martyn's Miller's Dictionary. May be eafily 

 propagated by parting its roots or by feeds, which however 

 with us it rarely produces, though in fome years abundantly* 

 Succeeds beft in a fandy loam with an eaflern expofure ; its 

 Items, if not tied up, are liable to fuffer from high, winds. 



J31ooms through the months of May and June* 



