2G. Great Toech- 



MULLEIN. 



27. MOTH-MULI^IN. 



256 yHE FOXGLOVE FAMILY. 



Section 3. (Genus Verbascxim.) 



Stem stout, erect, simple or branched, two to five or six feet^ 

 high. Leaves oblong, pointed, the lower ones often stalked, 

 and six or eight inches long, the upper ones sessile or de- 

 current, and tlie whole covered with a soft gray fleece that 

 makes them look as if made of flannel. Flowers sessile, - 

 in a dense, woolly, terminal spike of one or two feet long. 

 Corolla large, five-lobed, flatfish, nearly regular, and bright 

 yellow ; three of the stamens clothed with yellowish and 

 woolly hairs 



In habit like the preceding, but neither so stout nor so tall,^ 

 and either glabrous or with only a few glandular hairs at 

 the upper part. Leaves oblong, coarsely toothed or sinuate. 

 Flowers yellowish, pedunculate, in a long, loose, simple 

 and bracteated raceme. Hairs of the stamens purple. 

 Peduncles longer than the calyx 



HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 

 1. Spiked Field Speedavell — (Veronica arvensis.) 

 Dry fields and upon walls, common. Fl. May, June. Annual. 



Curtis, i. 74; E. B. xi. 73L 



2. Thyme-leaved Speedwell — {Veronica serpyllifdlia.) 

 Ploughed fields and waysides, common everywhere. Fl. May — 



July. 



Curtis, i. 3 ; E. B. xv. 1075. 



3. Narrow-leaved Bog Speedwell— ( Feromm scutellata.) 

 Sides of ponds, and marshy places, rather rare. Chorlton ; Withing- 

 ton ; Hale Moss ; Ringway ; Old Trafibrd ; Levenshulme. Abundant 

 about Worsley and Bedford. (J. E. ; R. H.) Fl. June, July. 

 Curtis, ii. 2!)5 ; E. B. xi. 782. 

 A variety occurs, but very rarely, with the stems somewhat downy. Few plants 

 are more graceful. 



4. Great Water Speedwell — [Veronica Anagnllis.) 

 Sides of ponds and in ditches, rare. Baguley ; ditches in Statham 

 Eye, near Lymm ; about Leigh, Worsley, and Bedford. (J. E.; R. TI.) 

 In ditches near Ringway Chapel, where it grows nearly a yard high, 

 and has large pink flowers. Plentiful in Dallam Brook, near War- 

 rington. Fl. June, July. 



Curtis, ii. 29-A ; E. B. xi. 781 (coloured too blue for our plant). 



