PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Veibascum. SOT 

 112. VERBASCUAI. Mullein. 



Linu.Gen.97. Juss.\24, FL Br.249. Tourn.t.Gl. Lam.t.U?. 



Gcertn. t.!J5. 

 Blattnrin. Toimi.t. 6],K. 



Nat. Ord. Lurid(C. Linn. 28. Solanccc, Juss. 41. Four fol- 

 lowing genera the same. See Grammar 101. 

 [The Sohuicrc of Jussieii are better defined than heretofore, 

 as well as better contrasted with that author's Scrophula- 

 rice, by Mr. Brown, Prodr. 443, as follows. 

 Calyx in 5, rarely only 4, divisions, j^ermanent. Corolla 

 monopetalous, uiferior, deciduous ; the limb in 5, rarely 

 4, segments, regular, or a little unequal; in the most 

 genmne of the tribe, plaited in die bud ; in the more 

 doubtful ones, imbricated. Stam. attached to the corolla, 

 as many as the segments of its limb, and alternate there- 

 with ; one of them sometimes abortive. Germen single 

 of 2 or 4 cells, with many seeds. Stijle 1. Stigma obtuse' 

 rarely lobed. Fruit with 2 or 4 cells; either a capsule, 

 with a parallel and double imrtition ; or a hcrry whose 

 receptacles are united to the partition. Seeds numerous, 

 sessile ; with a fleshy alhimen ; embryo internal, more or 

 less curved, often out of die centre ; radicle directed to- 

 wards the scar. 

 Leaves undivided, or lobed. Partial flower-stalks without 



hracteas. For the rest see Grammar. 

 These plants are distinguished from the Scroplmlarice of 

 Jussieu and Brown, (many of which are comprehended 

 by Linnasus under his Liiridce,) by having a curved or 

 spu-al embryo, and a corolla plaited in the bud, the 

 flowers being, almost without exception, regular, with as 

 many stamens as there are segments. " Hence," as Mr. 

 Brown observes, "the genera whose corolla is not plaited* 

 and whose embryo is straight, should either be excluded, 

 or should be placed, with such as have an imbricated 

 corolla, a slightly curved embryo, and 2 long, with 2 

 shorter, stamens, in a separate section, the foundation of 

 a new order."] 



Veriuscum. 

 Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, small, in 5 deep, erect, acute, nearly 

 equal, segments, peimanent. Cor. of 1 j^etal, wlieel- 

 shapcd, unequal ; tube very short; limb spreadini^, in 5 

 dee]), rounded segments. Filam. 5, awl-shaped, unequal, 

 distant, declining, woolly, shorter tlian the corolla, in- 

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