76 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
ding, corolla rotate, with a fringe of orange hairs in the 
centre, leaves all radical, large, oval, hairy, crenate, 
crinkled; damp shady rocks; Eastern and Central 
Pyrenees. 
Order LXIL—SCROPHULARIACE:. 
Calyx 5-lobed or bidentate, usually persistent ; corolla 
usually very irregular, 4-5-lobed; stamens usually 4, 
epipetalous, 2 with longer, 2 with shorter filaments (didy- 
namous), rarely 2; ovary 2-celled, style simple; ovules 
usually very numerous; seed-vessel a many-seeded cap- 
sule. A very large order, dispersed over the whole globe ; 
some of the genera are parasitic. 
I. VERBASCUM, L. 
Flowers in simple or compound racemes ; corolla nearly 
regular, 5-lobed, rotate, yellow; stamens 5, unequal, with 
bearded filaments; leaves usually woolly. Not alpine. 
The species of Mullein are very difficult to define, 
owing to their frequent hybridisation. The following 
English species occur also in Switzerland :—V. Thapsus, 
L., Moses’s Flannel, the commonest species, with very 
woolly decurrent leaves. V. nigrum, L.; leaves not 
woolly nor decurrent, lower stem-leaves cordate. V. 
Blattaria, L.; flowers in slender panicles, hairs of fila- 
ments purple, leaves nearly glabrous. V. Lychnztizs, L.; 
flowers small, nearly white, hairs of filaments white, 
leaves tomentose beneath. V. pulverulentum, Vill. (floc- 
cosum, WW. K.); flowers bright yellow, hairs of filaments 
white, stem and leaves mealy, flocculent. Also the fol- 
