302 ORD. XII. Solanated, seu Lurtde. 
|. VERBASCUM THAPSUS. GREAT BROAD:LEAVED 
ae MULLEIN, 
Ss YNON YALA. Verbascum. Pharm. Edinb. Verbascum mas 
litifolium luteum. -Bauh.-Pin. p. 239. - Rait. Hist. p. 1094. 
Synop. p. 287. Verbascum album vulgare, sive Tapsus barbatus 
“communis. Park. Theat..p. 60. Tapsus: barbatus. Gerard. 
Emae: p.773.° Verbascum foliis décurrentibus’ utrinque tomen= 
= "tosis (lanatis.) Hal. Stirp. Hele. n. 58¥. V. Thapsus: Flor. Dan. 
p. 631. Hiidson. Ang. p. 89. Withéring. Bot. Arr. p. 223. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 243. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. .Cor. rotata subinzequalis. Caps. 3-locularis, 2-valvis. 
Sp. Ch. V. foliis decurrentibus utrinque tomeatésis caule simplici. 
_ THE root is biennial, long, divided, and descends deeply into 
the ground: the stalk is simple, erect; round; rigid, hairy, rises two 
or three feet in height, and is irregularly beset with leaves, which 
are large, without footstalks, at the base decurrent, or running 
along the stem, oblong or oval, somewhat pointed, indented at the 
margin, of a pale green colour, and covered on .both sides with 
thick down, or white soft hairs: the bractez are lance-shaped, with 
narrow points, hairy on the under side, on the upper smooth, and 
longer than the calyx: the flowers are yellow, and produced in 
long-close terminal inclining spikes: the calyx is divided into five 
pointed segments, which are hairy on the outside: the corolla is 
monopetalous, yellow, divided at the limb into five unequal-seg- 
| Rents, which are blunt, oval, veined, and slightly indefited at the 
edges: ‘the five filaments are hairy, of unequal length, and furnished 
with double Teddish antherz: the germen is roundish, downy, and ~ 
supports a simple style, crowned. with a compressed stigma: the 
= is oblong, ites into, s and yalves, and contains 
