152 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
to its foliage with the last named, having very 
little down, sending up numerous handsome 
spikes of yellow flowers. More rare species 
are V. virgatum, Branched Mullein, with large 
handsome yellow flowers, and purple hairs on 
the filaments ; and V. pulverulentum, or flocco- 
sum, Hoary Mullein; the writer has been for- 
tunate enough to find each of these last two 
species once, but only once in each case. 
The Hoary Mullein is a very remarkable plant, 
covered in every part with a mealy loose, 
deciduous wool. It is probably peculiar to 
Norfolk and Suffolk. 
Among the ScRoPHULARIACE# in these weeks 
of summer are seen Lzxaria vulgaris, Yellow 
Toad-flax, somewhat like a Snap-dragon, 
having the form of flower called “ personate” or 
mouth-like, the flowers numerous in terminal 
spikes; two species of Antirrhinum, 4. mazus, 
on garden walls, and 4. ovontium, in dry waste 
places and cornfields; in running water there 
are the tall stems of Veronica Anagallis, Great 
Water Speedwell, with long axillary racemes 
of small purplish flowers; and, notably in West 
Sussex, the naturalized American J/imulus 
luteus, on the river banks, There is plenty 
