| Verbascum (Bauhin) Le Mullein 
biennial erect virgate herbs with basal leaves forming a rosette, 
the cauline smaller, alternate, Flowers perfect in terminal racemes, 
svikes or panicles. Sepals 5. Corolla yellow or white, Saucer-shaped, 
nearly wrervular. Stamens 5, all fertile, Fruit a seoticidal capsule, 
Plants hoary, very densely covered : ith branched hairs 4. Ve Thapsus 
Plants green, glabrous or Sparingly glandular 2. Ve Blattaria 
1. V. Thapsus Le Flowering stem 60-200 em, tall, leafy, densely woolly; 
leaves pale green, erect or ascendin;:, 12-60 em, long, mostly oblanceolate, 
obtuse, the upver acute, narrowed at the base to a decurrent, adnate 
petiole, the margin obscurely crenate, both surf'aces densely woolly with 
branched matted hairs; flowers in a terminal Spike elongating to 30-40 
cm, or mores; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, subecual to the Calyces; 
calvx subsessile 10-12 mn, long, campanulate, woolly, the lobes somevhat 
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