342 



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tain and convenient. Grading found die ftrengtli of the extraO: to 

 vdvj exceedingly ; that which he obtained from LiidvYig, was a much 

 more powerful medicine than that which he had of Stoerck. 



nally the leaves of Stramonium have been ufed as an appli- 



cation to mnammatory tumours and burns ; in the latter a remarkable 

 inflance is noticed by Gerard. 1. c. 



VERBASCUM THAPSUS. ^ GREAT BROADJ.EAVED^ 



. ; MULLEIN. 



kJ 



TNO NTMJ. Verbafcum.. Pharm. Edlnb. Verbafcum maS 

 latifolium luteum.. Baiih, Fin, p, 239. Rait H'lft. p. 1094. 



Synop. p, 287. Verbafcum album vulgare, five Tapfus barb 



communis. Park, Theat, p, 60. Tapfus barbatus. Gerard 



Emac, p, 773. Verbafcum foliis decurrentibus utrinque tomen 



tofis (Ian alls) Hal, Stirp, Helv, n, 381. V. Thapfus. Flor, B 

 p, 631. Hiidfon, Ang, p. 89. IVitker'ing, Bot, Arr, p, 223. 



€lafs Pentandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lin. Gen, Planf. 243 



EJf. Gen, Ch, Cor, rotata fubincequalis. Caps, 3-Iocularis5 2-valvis 



1^ 



Sp. Ch, V. foliis decurrentibus utrmque tomentofis caule fimplici. 



THE root is biennial, long, divided, 'and defcends deeply \ 



ground: the ftalk is fimple, ered:, round, rigid, hairy, rifes . 



three feet in height, and is irregularly befet with leaves, v/hich ar 



Ok 



o:e. without footftalks. at the bafe de 



o 



g 



alone the 



ftem, oblong or oval, fomewhat pointed, indented at the margin, of 

 a Dale green colour, and covered on both fides with thick down, or 

 white foft hairs : the brad:e32 are lance-fhaped, with narrow points^ 

 hairy on the under fide, on the upper fmooth, and longer than the 

 calyx : the flowers are yellow, and produced in long c[ofe terminal 



inclining fpikes : the calyx is divided into five pointed fegments. 



which 



