248 PENT ANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Verbascum. 



stamens hairy, and 2 smooth ; nigrum has all its stamens hairy ; 

 the hybrid has all its stamens hairy, but two of them so only on 

 one side. Mr. Robson. 



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Var. 3. Another hybrid variety which Mr. Turner would 

 call nigro'lychnitisj he found near Yarmouth, and describes it 



thus : 



M Leaves woolly, and excepting those of the root, all sitting. 

 Stem about 4 feet high, throwing out numerous flowering 

 branches which are axillary. Flowers in bunches of about 

 a dozen each, resembling entirely those of V. nigrum, and all the 

 stamens purple and woolly. It evidently perfects no seeds." 



This variety has since been extirpated, but may probably 

 appear again in the same place, or elsewhere. 



Thapsoi / des.V. Leaves decurrent : stem branched. 



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A hybrid plant, produced in the gardens of Upsal, in the year 

 176l y from the seeds of the V. Lychnitis, impregnated by the pol- 

 len of the V. Thaps. both which grew in the same bed. Seen 

 long ago by Agerius, who sent it to J. Baugh, from whom suc- 

 ceeding authors have copied it. Agrees with V. Lychn. in its 

 branching stem; its flowers , and also though less so in the purple 

 hairs of the filaments ; and with the V. Thaps. in size, in its 

 leaves, which run down the stem, though not all the way, and 

 which are not so white ; in its calyx, which, however, has a 

 longer fruit-stalk, though not so long as in the V. Lychn. In a 

 word, it is not a distinct species, but rather a variety of V. 

 Lychmtiu Linn. 



Bastard Mullein* Chalky and sandy meadows and pastures, 

 in Kent. Huds. B, 



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Lychni'tis. V. Leaves wedge-oblong. 



Var. 1 . powdery. Whole 



down. 



E. hot. 487. \-Verhascum pi 



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1. 



Stem 4 to 5 feet high. Leaves, lower ones somewhat notched ; 

 upper ones sometimes embracing the stem, more and more pointed 

 as they ascend. Moss, yellow. Woodward. 



About Norwich- Ray. [and Mr. Pitchford.— Very com- 

 mon in Norfolk. Mr. Woodward.]— Bury, and Wollerton, 

 Northamptonshire. Ray. B. July- 



Var. 2. Green. Lower leaves green above, cottony under- 

 neath. 



E. hot. 5?-Knlph. 6-Ger. 631. 1-Pet. 62. 4-Fuchs. 84f- 



J. B. iii. 873. 2-Matth. 1U7~Lo6. obs. 303. 8-& r# 

 tm. 775. Z-Ger. 6<j2. Z-Fl. dan. 586. 





