The first notice we have of this plant, occurs in a letter 
of Honorivs Bextvus, a Physician at Cydonia in the island 
of Candia, to Ciusrus, published in the second volume of 
‘his Historia Plantarum. It was again described and figured 
by Prosper Atpinus, as a native of the same island; and - 
afterwards by Fasrs CoLumna, whose representation is 
excellent and evidently, like ours, of a very pubescent variety, - 
with alternate leaves and peduncles. 
Linnezus, with the older Botanists, at first considered this 
plant as a species of Verpascum ; nor do we find that it pos- 
sesses one generic character, different from that genus, if we 
except the want of the fifth stamen. ; 
A tolerably hardy annual or biennial. Flowers from June 
to August. - . 
Communicated by Messrs. Cuanpter and Bucxrnenam, 
of Vauxhall, who observed that it came up with three dif- 
ferent parcels of seeds from New South-Wales. It is, however, 
more probable that it was latent in the soil than in the seed 
sown, : paced 
