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around cultivated fields and villages, and, being most 

 often recorded from the latter artificial situations, it is 

 liable to be mistaken in all cases for a non-indigenous 

 plant.] 



Verbascuin phlomoides, L. A native of dry hills in 

 the greater part of Europe, and reaching nearly to the 

 north coast. In England only known as a garden escape. 



Verbascuin phceniceum, L. A garden plant which 

 has been recorded as an escape in England. A native 

 of stony and sandy places from Central Europe to Siberia. 



Yerbascum pulverulentuin, Vill. A native of rocky 

 ground and gravelly river banks in Western Continental 

 Europe. Over the same area it becomes a weed of 

 waste ground and roadsides, and extends as such to 

 South-East and Eastern England and to Southern 

 Europe. 



Verbascum thapsiforme, Schrad. A native of dry 

 stony hills in Central and Southern Europe, Occa- 

 sionally noticed as a garden escape in England. 



[Verbascum Thapsus, L. A native of openings in 

 woods, broken hillsides, river banks, and similar situa- 

 tions in Britain. Exceedingly common as a weed of 

 artificially disturbed ground.] 



Verbascum virgatum, Stokes. A native of dry 

 hillsides in Central Europe. Cultivated in English 

 gardens, and frequently found as an escape near them. 

 It is averred by some experienced British botanists 

 that it is a native on rough banks in Devonshire and 



