234 SCROPHULARIACEiE. 



It will be seen that the only locality that produces V. nigrum affords 

 also the hybrid between it and V. Thapsus. The intermediate examples 

 agree well with the description in Ewjlish Botany^ ed. 3 : in spikes and 

 flowers looking much like nigrum, but with leaves conspicuously different 

 hi outline and general appearance, showing plainly the connection with 

 Thapsus. 



473. V. virg-atum. With. Large-flowered Mullein. 



Native or Denizen ; on dry banks, in pastures and waste spots. 

 Common, though to some extent local. June to September, 

 c. I. Near Seaton. Trevollard, &c., St. Stephens. Tideford. Leigh. 

 Pillaton. 

 II. Torpoint ! ; Hook, and Arm.., Brit. Ft. ed. 7. Maker ! ; Rame ! ; 

 Keys., Fl. iii. 133. About Saltash. Landulph. 

 D. III. Railway cutting between Plymouth and Devonport, 1866 ; Keys^ 

 ih. Mutley, 1867. About Khig's Tamerton. Between Mana- 

 don and Burrington. Tamerton Foliot. Beer Ferrers. 

 IV. Near Plymouth ; Mr. Banks, Hook. Brit. Fl. 110, ed. 2. Laira ; 

 Keys, Fl. iii. 132. Between Lipson Terrace and Mount Gould, 

 1873. Plymstock. Leigham, Fursdon, &c.. Egg Buckland. 

 Plympton St. Mary. 

 V. Noss ; Revelstoke Churchyard, 1866 ; Keys, ih. Near Elburton. 

 Wembury. Staddiscombe. Newton Ferrers. Brixton. Yealm 

 Bridge. 

 VI. Ringmore. Mothecombe. 



I have never met with this bearing whitish flowers, and believe that 

 all the white-flowered plants referred to it have really belonged to V. 

 Blattaria. 



First record : Hooker, 1831. 



474. V. Blattaria, L. Moth Midlein. 



Alien or Casual ; in waste spots and fields. Very rare. July, 

 August. 



c. I. By the railway line a little below St. Germans, with light flowers, 

 1866. 



D. III. [Near the Camel's Head Inn, on the Saltash Road from Plymouth, 

 with cream-coloured floAvers ; Keys, Fl. iii. 132.] Three plants 

 with yelloAv flowers, but of a less bright tint than those of 

 V. virgatum, with Trifolium hyhridum, in a field by the 

 Knackersknowle and Tamerton Foliot Road ; August, 1867. 

 IV. Circa Plymouth, frequens ; Huds. Fl. Ang. ed. 2, 1778. Prob- 

 ably the plant seen was V. virgatum. Near Plymouth ; Mr. 

 Banks, Hook. Brit. Fl. 110 ed. 2, 1831. Two plants, with 

 light flowers, in waste ground near Laira Bridge, July, 1864. 



