PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Verbascum. 509 



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

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

 winged Leaves alternate, dccurrent, ovate-oblong^ minutely 

 crenate, 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 5^^- 

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

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



• gregate, smaller, very woolly. 



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

 rent, and the hairs of the stamens jDurple. The late Mr. E. Rob- 

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

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

 description, at Barton, near Swaffham, Norfolk. 



2. V. Lychnilis. White Mullein. 



Leaves we(lge-sha})ecl-oblong ; stripped of down on their 

 upper side. Stem angular, panicled. 



V. Lychnitis. Linn. Sp. rL2b^. Willd. v. \. 1003 (3. Fl. Br. 230. 



Engl. Bot. V. ] . t. 58. Hook. Scot. 78. FL Dan. t. 586. xMatth. 



Falgr.v.2.40\.f. Ger. Em.77b.f. 

 V. n. 583 /3. Hail. Hist. v. 1. 257. 



V. flore albo parvo. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 357./. Raii Sijn.287. 

 V. candidum foemina. Fuchs. Hist. 84/./. 

 /3. V. Thapsi. Linn. Sp. PI. 1009. 

 V. Thapsoides. mild. v. \. lOOl. Huds. 90. mtJi. 249. Sym.Syn, 



56. Schrad. Verhasc. 25. t. b.f. 2. *' Hoffmanns, et Link Lusit. 



r. 1.214." 

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



V. 3. 860 -J according to Linnseus. 



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

 soil. 



Plentiful in Kent. At Kinvcr, Stafl'ordshire ; according to Dr. 

 Stokes. 



In several parts of the south of Scotland. Hooker. 



/S. In Kent. Huds. 



Biennial. July, August. 



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

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

 crenate, reticulated with veins ; white with a f^oft downy wool- 

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

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

 rcnt, generally numerous. Branches of the panicle racemose, 

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

 Outer 6/ (^c/cf'i lanceolate : inner very small. G//. woolly. Cor. 



