310 PENTAND11IA— MONOGYNIA. Verbascum. 



seldom branched, (though so represented in the figure of Came- 

 rarius, commended by Haller), leafy, woolly, slightly angular, 

 winged. Leaves alternate, decurrent, ovate-oblong, minutely 

 cremate, very densely covered on both sides with white, branch- 

 ed, entangled, woolly hairs, the lowermost largest, and stalked. 

 Cluster terminal, cylindrical, dense, many-flowered. Fl. nearly, 

 but not quite, sessile, large, of a golden yellow, with red sta- 

 mens, and a green stigma. Outer bracteas ovate-lanceolate, 

 pointed, alternate, often smooth on the upper side 5 inner ag- 

 gregate, smaller, very woolly. 

 /3 is described with a branched stem, the upper leaves only decur- 

 rent, and the hairs of the stamens purple. The late Mr. E. Kob- 

 son traced its origin to the pollen of V. nigrum impregnating 

 V. Thapsus. Mr. D. Turner found a variety answering to this 

 description, at Barton, near S waff ham, Norfolk. 



2. V. Lychnitis. White Mullein. 



Leaves wedge-shaped- oblong; stripped of down on their 

 upper side. Stem angular, panicled. 



V. Lychnitis. Linn. Sp. PL 253: Willd. v. 1 . 1003 /3. Fl. Br. 250. 

 Engl. Bot. v. 1 . t. 58. Hook. Scot. 78. FL. Dan. t. 586. Matth. 

 Valgr. v. 2. 491./. Ger.Em. 775./. 



V. n. 583 (3. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 257. 



V. flore albo parvo. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 857./. Raii Syn. 287. 



V. candidum foemina. Fuchs. Hist. 847 ./. 



(3. V. Thapsi. Linn. Sp. PL 1 669. 



V. Thapsoides. Willd. v. 1.1001. Huds. 90. With.249. Sym.Syn. 

 56. Schrad. Verbasc. 25. t.5.f. 2. " Hoffmanns, et Link Lusit. 

 ©.1.214." 



V. angustifolium ramosum, flore aureo, folio crassiore. Bauh. Hist, 

 v. 3. 860-, according to Linnaeus. 



In pastures, by road sides, and other waste places, on a chalky 

 soil. 



Plentiful in Kent. At Kinver, Staffordshire j according to Dr. 

 Stokes. 



in several parts of the south of Scotland. Hooker. 



/3. In Kent. Huds. 



Biennial. July, August. 



Stem erect, a yard high, straight, angular, woolly, leafy ; panicled 

 at the top. Leaves elliptic-oblong, contracted at each end, finely 

 crenate, reticulated with veins ; white with a soft downy wool- 

 liness beneath ; dark green, and almost entirely naked, above, 

 the lowermost stalked j upper ones smaller, sessile, not decur- 

 rent, generally numerous. Branches of the panicle racemose, 

 many-flowered. Fl. stalked, collected into small woolly tufts. 

 Outer bracteas lanceolate 3 inner very small. Cal. woolly. Cor. 



