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VERBAS'CUM. 
Hairs on the stamens white. 
Leaf-margins running down the stem in two wings; 2 
longest stamens without hairs; flowers without 
stalks. Thap’sus. Great Mullein- 
Stem not winged; all stamens hairy; flowers stalked. 
Leaves green and scarcely woolly on their upper 
( surface ; flowers pale cream. 
L Lychni'tis. White Mullein. 
Leaves felted with white, mealy wool; flowers 
bright-yellow. 
pulverulen’tum. Hoary Mullein. 
Hairs on the stamens purple. 
All the stamens similar; leaves woolly, at least on 
i their under surface. ) 
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L nigrum. Dark Mullein. 
2 stamens longer; leaves almost without hairs. 
Flower-stalks longer than the calyx, one to each 
bract. | 
Blatta'ria. oth Mullein. 
Flower-stalks shorter than the calyx, mostly 2-6 to 
each bract. } 
virga'tum. 
VERONICA. 
Flowers clustered on special leafless branches, from 
t the angle of a leaf, with only very small bracts 
under each flower. Group 1. 
\ Flowers each attached directly, by its own stalk, to the 
main leafy divisions of the stem. 
Group 1. 
Leaves gradually tapering at their apex. 
oo pinkish; only one flowering branch to each Dal 
| of leaves ; fruit deeply notched, much longer pet 
L the sepals. scutella'ta. 
Flowers pale-blue; flowering branches in pairs ; seal 
4 
slightly notched, not longer than the sepals. 
Anagallis. Water Speedwell. 
Leaves blunt, or with short, acute points. 
Plant not hairy, of wet places; leaves rather thick, 
[ bluntish, rounded at both ends. } 
L Beccabun’ga. Lrooklime. 
Plant and leaves hairy. 
