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VERBASCUM, Linn. 



470. V. Tbapsus, L. Mullein. High-ta'per. 



Tapsus barbatus (Grer.). V. mas latifolium luttum, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 187- Syme E. B. vi. t. 937. 



Waste ground, heaths and roadsides ; rather common. B. June — Sep- 

 tember. 

 I. Harefield!; Blackst. Fasc. 105. [Formerly common in Pinner Wood ; 

 Melv. 58.] A single plant at Pinner Lime Works. 

 II. Many places on the road from Staines to Hampton. Tangley Park. 

 By the river, Hampton Court, a single plant. 



III. Garden-wall by the racquet courts, and by Eoxborough turnpike ; 



Melv. 58. Twickenham Park, one plant. Hounslow Heath, abun- 

 dant. 

 IV". Hampstead ; Irv. MSS. Stanmore. 

 V. Near Chiswick Ey. Station, a few plants. 



VI. About Hiegate ( = Highgate); Ger. 6Z0. Edmonton, a single plant. 

 VII. Parson's Green, A. I., 1856; Ph^t. N. S. ii. 168. North End, Ful- 

 ham, one plant. Site of Exhibition, S. Kensington. 

 First record : Gerarde, 1597. 



V. Lychnitis, i. Cyb. Br. ii. 188. Syme E. B. vi. t, 939. A few plants 

 on the site of the Exhibition of 1862 at S. Kensington ! ; Naylor. 



471. V. nigrrum, L. Dark Mullein.. 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 190. Syme E. B. vi. t. 940. 



Waste ground and roadsides ; rare. B. or P. July, August. 

 I. Harefield ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 105. 

 II. Bet. Hampton and Sunbury, by the roadside ! ; Netu B. G. 100. By 

 the Tliames, under the wall of Hampton Court Gardens ! ; New B. 

 G. Supp., and in other places by the towing-path towards Kingston 

 Bridge. 

 III. In a meadow by Kichmond Bridge ', M. ^ G. 299. Near the Ey. 

 Station, Twickenham, one plant. 



IV. About Hampstead ; Mart. Mill. Diet. 



V. At Strand on the Green ; Mart. Mill. Diet. 

 First record: Blackstone, 1737. 



472. * V. Blattaria, L. Moth Mullein. 



Blattaria fl. luteo (Doody). Blattaria Plinii, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 190. Syme E. B. vi. t. 942. 



Waste ground ; rare. A. or B. July — September. 

 I. In a chalky field near Harefield Mill, but not plentifully, 1735 ; 

 Blackst. Fasc. 11. In an orchard, Terrilands, Pinner, 1867 ; Hind. 



