PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Verbascum. 311 



much smaller than the foregoing, cream-coloured, yellow at the 

 mouth ; externally mealy. Filaments yellowish, hairy. Anth. 

 orange-coloured, uniform. 

 The mule variety /3 I have never seen wild ; nor is there any au- 

 thentic specimen in the Linnsean herbarium. Mr. Griffith of 

 Denbighshire has favoured me with specimens artificially pro- 

 cured, from V. Lychnitis by the pollen of V. Thapsus, which an- 

 swer to the description of Linnseus, except that he mentions 

 "a purplish beard upon the jila men ts, though less so than in 

 V. Lychnitis." To explain this, we must recollect that he con- 

 founded with the Lijchnitis our V. pulverulentum, whose stamens 

 are scarlet, for which colour he often uses the word purpureus. 

 Professor Link has sent from Portugal specimens, which agree 

 with Mr. Griffith's, as his V. Thapsoides. But the corolla of both 

 is yellow ; beard of the filaments white. Their upper leaves are 

 somewhat decurrent. The species of Verbascum are extremely 

 obscure, and so, of course, are their intermixed varieties. 



3. V. pulverulentum. Yellow Hoary Mullein. Nor- 

 folk Mullein. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, obscurely serrated, clothed on both 

 sides with mealy deciduous wool. Stem round, panicled. 



V. pulverulentum. Villars Dauph. v. 2. 400. Fl. Br. 251. Engl. 

 Bot. v.7.1.487. Hook. Scot. 78. 



V. Lychnitis a. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 1. 1003. With. 249. 



V. Lychnitis |3. Huds. 90. 



V. n. 583, a. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 257. 



V. pulverulentum, flore luteo parvo. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 85 6./. 857. 



(3. V. nigro-pulverulentum. Fl. Br. 251. Rees's Ci/cl. 



By road sides, and in the borders of fields, on a gravelly or chalky 

 soil, chiefly in Norfolk and Suffolk. 



About Norwich and Bury ; also at Wollerton, near Nottingham. 

 Ray. Abundant for 2 or 3 miles round Norwich, in fallow fields, 

 and on banks, hillocks, and waste ground. 



(5. At Hellesdon near Norwich, and in various parts of Norfolk oc- 

 casionally. 



Biennial. July. 



The whole herb is clothed with a white, mealy, somewhat unctu- 

 ous, woolliness, easily rubbed off. Stem from 3 to 5 feet high, 

 erect, round, leafy, copiously panicled, tapering upward, forming 

 a stately pyramid of innumerable golden flowers, with scarlet 

 stamens, bearded with pale-yellow, or white hairs. Leaves above 

 a foot in length 5 elliptic-oblong, with many transverse ribs and 

 reticulated veins j the radical ones somewhat stalked ; upper 

 ones ovate, pointed, sessile, gradually smaller. Bracteas ^linear- 

 lanceolate. Flowers stalked, disposed as in the last species, but 

 larger, and always bright yellow. 



