



PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNrA. Verbascum. 



Stem seldom more than 3 feet high. Lower leaves of a plea- 

 sant green, their upper surface shining. Mr. Woodward. 



Flowers in terminating and lateral spikes ; pale yellow, or dirty 

 white. 



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road sides, Kent. [KinVfer, Staffordshire, near the Rock Houses. 

 Dr. Stokes.] July. 



V. Leaves heart-oblong, on leaf-stalks. 



JE. hot. 59-Fl. dan. lOtft-fttf j. 849-ZW. 144. 1-J. B. 

 ' iii. 8/3. Z-Trag. 218-Ger. 631. 2-Ger. em. 775. <2-H. 

 „ ex. v. 9. row 2. 5. 



Leaves notched, downy underneath. Stem angular. Spike 

 loose, sometimes branched. Linn. Leaves heart-spear-shaped, not 

 doubly scolloped; the lower on short broad leaf-stalks. Flowers 

 about 7 in a set. Spike long, but not very compact. The 

 beayty of its golden yellow blossoms is much enriched by the 

 tints of purplish brown at the mouth of the tube, and the yel- 

 lowish scarlet colour of the anthers. 



Black Mullein. Hedges and road sides. [Road sides, sandy 

 soil, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. — At Hampstead, betwixt Bir- 

 mingham and Walsall.] P. July— Sept. 



V. Root-leaves somewhat lyre-shaped: stem-leaves sit- virga'turn. 



ting: stem branching: fruit-stalks several together, 

 sitting. 



St, 



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Root branched, slanting, biennial, whitish, bitter. Stem up- 

 right, from 5 to 6 feet high, branching from the bottom, round, 

 parked with superficial angles from the edges of the leaves run- 

 ning down the stem, and of a wood-like hardness below. 

 Branches undivided, long, rod-like, alternate, solitary, leafy be- 

 low, beset with flowers to the length of 2 feet and upwards. 

 Root-leaves a good deal resembling those of the Common Prim- 

 rose, spear-shaped -oblong, wing-cleft-scolloped towards the base, 

 unequally and doubly notched, wrinkled; above somewhat glossy, 

 ^ith scattered hairs ; underneath venous and woolly. Lower 

 stem-leaves oblong- spear- shaped, or egg-oblong-spear-shaped, 

 notched, and some of the lowermost scolloped towards the base, 

 narrowing down into very short leaf-stalks. Upper stem and 

 branch-leaves egg-shaped, or oblong-egg-shaped, toothed, not 

 serrated as in V. Boerh. and Blatt. sitting, not embracing the 

 stem as in V. Blatt. Flower-leaves egg-shaped, gradually di- 

 minishing, the uppermost spear-shaped, and at length becoming 

 a kind of flower-scale. Flowers nearly sitting, in small clusters^ 

 from the sides of the stem and branches, at moderate intervals. 







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