296 SCROPHTTLARIACEiE. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 
Suborder I. ANTIRRHINIDEiE. The Snapdragon Fam. 
1. VERBASCEM, L. Mullein. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-lobed, open or concave, wheel-shap¬ 
ed ; the lobes broad and rounded, a little unequal. Stamens 5 ; 
all the filaments, or the 3 upper, woolly. Style flattened at the 
apex. Pod globose, or ovoid, many-seeded.—Tall and usually 
woolly biennial herbs, with alternate leaves, those of the stem 
sessile or decurrent. Flowers in terminal racemes, ephemeral. 
(The ancient Latin name, altered from Barbascum.) 
1- V. Tluipsus, L. (Common Mullein.) Densely woolly 
throughout; stem tall and stout t simple , winged by the decurrent bases 
of the oblong acute leaves; flowers (yellow) in a prolonged and very 
dense cylindrical spike; lower stamens usually beardless. — Fields and 
road-sides, very common; also in recent clearings, introduced from 
Europe, as are the following. 
2. V. Blattaria, L. (Moth Mullein.) Green and smooth- 
ish , slender; lower leaves petioled, oblong, doubly serrate, sometimes 
lyre-shaped, the upper partly clasping; raceme long and loose; fila¬ 
ments all bearded with violet wool. — Road-sides, common. Corolla 
either yellow or white with a tinge of purple. 
3- V. Ayr hint is, L. (White Mullein.) Clothed with a 
thin powdery woolliness; stem and branches angled above; stem- 
leaves ovate, acute, not decurrent, greenish above; flowers (yellow, 
rarely white) in a pyramided panicle ; filaments with whitish wool. 
Road-sides, Penn., rare, and sandy fields at the head of Oneida Lake, 
New York, where it hybridizes freely with the common Mullein. 
2. UNARIA, Tourn. Toad-flax. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla personate, with the prominent palate 
nearly closing the throat, spurred at the base on the lower side. 
Stamens 4. Pod thin, opening below the summit by one or two 
pores or chinks, the orifice split into teeth. Seeds many. — 
Herbs, with the lower leaves opposite or whorled, the upper al¬ 
ternate. (Name from Linum, the Flax, which the leaves of some 
species resemble.) 
1. E. Canadensis, Spreng. (Wild Toad-flax.) Smooth; 
stem slender , erect , mostly simple ,' with scattered linear leaves; those 
from prostrate shoots from the base oblong, crftwded, chiefly opposite 
or whorled ; flowers blue , in a slender raceme, short-pedicelled; spur 
thread-shaped, curved. Q) @ — Sandy soil, rather common. June 
“ Aug. — Flowers small, variable in size. 
