( 1777 ) 



VERBASCUM BiPINISTATIFIDUM. CuT-LEAVED 



Mullein. 



Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 

 Cor. rotata, subinaequalis. Caps. 2-Iocularis, bivalvis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Verbascum bipinnatifidum ; foliis radicalibus interrupte bi- 



pinnatifidis : caulinis serrato-dentatis, ramis divaricatis, 



floribus axillaribus sessilibus subsolitariis. 

 Verbascum pinnatifidufn ; foliis oblongis : radicalibus bi- 



pinnatifidis : caulinis pinnatifidis dentatis, caule ramosis- 



simo virgato, floribus axillaribus sessilibus. Bieb. FL 



Taurico-Cauc. 1. p. 162. 

 Verbascum pinnatifidum. Vahl Symh. 2. p. 39 ? Willd. Sp. 



PL 1. p. 1006 ? Hort. Keid, ed. alt. 1. p. 386 ? vix eadem 



species ac nostra videtur. 



Our plant, which is undoubtedly the same species as de- 

 scribed by Marschal v. Bieberstein, as growing' in Tauria, 

 on the sandy shores of the Black-Sea, does not appear to us 

 to be the pinnatifidum of Vahl, taken up by Willdenow, a 

 native of the islands of the Grecian Archipelago ; and certainly 

 has nothing to do with Tournefort's Verbascum grcecum, 

 fruticosum, folio sinuato candidissimo, quoted as a dubious 

 synonym of that plant ; as we have ascertained by an imper- 

 fect specimen, gathered by Tournefort himself, preserved 

 in the Banksian Herbarium. 



In our plant the radical leaves are finely divided, lie flat 

 upon the ground, and perish as soon as the stem rises up to 

 flower. The stem is very much branched ; branches rigid, 



very 



