38. SCROPHULARIACE.E. 



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Range; a garden escape. 

 Asia. 



1. Verbascum Thapsus, L. Grf<if MuUcin. 



Stout, erect, densely white-tomentose biennial ; leave.s 

 crowded, thick, .soft, oval-lanceolate, crenate, decurrent in 

 wings alinig the stem ; flowers yellow, in a long, dense, ter- 

 minal spike; corolla concave, 15-20 mm. (h-'i in.) across; 

 the .'-i short hlaments whitish-woolly, tlie 2 long f)nes gla))rons 

 or almost so ; cap.sule ovoid. 



Waste places in Mount I-ofty 

 Oct.-h'eb. — Europe and temperate 



2. V. virgratum, With. 

 Tiridfni M^tllcin. Tall, stiff, 

 erect, glandular-downv bien- 

 nial ; stem simple or branched : 

 lea\'es oblong-lanceolate, toothed 

 or crenate, the upper ones stem- 

 clasping: flowers yello\A', in 

 clusters of 2-4, in the axil of a 

 bract and with 2 bracteoles at 

 the base of the pedicels, or some- 

 times all solitary in each axil, 

 especially in the upper part of 

 the long, loose raceme or on the 

 side-l)ranches : pedicels shorter 

 than the" bracts and calyx: 

 corolla Hat, 80-40 mm. (1-1 J in.) 

 across ; filaments with purple 

 hairs, cap.sule globular. 



All the .specimens with .soli- 

 taiy flowers whicli I have seen 

 are lacking in the pedicels 

 longer than l)racts, which is the 

 characteristic feature of T'. Blat- 

 taria. L. (Moth Mullein), a 

 closely allied European .species 

 «liich has been reported from 

 some parts of Au.stralia. 



Adelaide plains and lulls. 

 Europe. 



5. Cklsia, 



Verbascum virgratum. 



Oct. - ^lav. — Western 



(After Olaus Celsius, a Swedish botani.st.) 

 1. Celsia cretica, 1>. fil. Erect downy biennial, 

 differing from a I'dhaticuin only in the number of stamen.s ; 

 stem .stout, villous; leaves crenate-toothed, the radical ones 

 .stalked, lyrate, the upper ones oblong or oval, stem-clasp- 

 ing: flowers yellow, with pvirple throat, solitary in the axil 

 of a leafy, oval-acumiruite bract, forming a long, dense 

 raceme; calyx large, with oval, saw-toothed segments; corolla 

 flat, about 4o mm. (nearly 2 in.) across: 2 upper stamens 

 purple-woollv. the 2 lower ones much longer and glabrous: 

 capsule large, ovoid. 



