SCROPHULARIACE^. 109 



has also gatliered it at Hastings, and it has been found by myself 

 at Northflect, Kent. 



HYOSCYAMUS ALBUS. Linn. 

 Pound on ballast-hills at Sunderland by Mr. Eobson. 



OEDER L— SOROPHULARIACE^. 



Herbs, more rarely shrubs, with alternate, opposite, or ver- 

 ticillate leaves and no stipules. Flowers perfect, more or Jess 

 irregular, commonly in racemes. Calyx free from the ovary, 

 persistent, generally 5- or 4-toothed. Corolla hypogynous, mono- 

 petalous, generally 2-lipped, and then either ringent or per- 

 sonate, more rarely rotate or bellshaped or tubular ; limb 5- or 

 more rarely 4-lobed, the lobes commonly unequally united in 

 various modes, always imbricated in aestivation. Stamens inserted 

 in the tube of the corolla, generally 4, didynamous, sometimes 

 with a rudimentary fifth stamen without an anther, sometimes 

 only 2, rarely 5 with the 2 anterior ones longer than the other 3. 

 Ovary 2-celled, the cells anterior and posterior, with the placenta 

 in the centre. Style simple, stigma generally more or less dis- 

 tinctly 2-lobed, the lobes anterior and posterior ; ovules generally 

 numerous in each cell. Eruit a capsule, opening by 2, 3, or 4 

 valves or by pores. Seeds generally numerous — in the few cases 

 where they are solitary, loose wdthin the cells of the capsule. 

 Embryo minute, straight or slightly curved, in the midst of 

 copious albumen. 



Tribe I.— VERBASCEiS. 



Corolla rotate, nearly regular, upper lip covered by the others in 

 bud. Stamens 5 (or 4 and didynamous), declinate. Inflorescence 

 usually simple, indefinite. Leaves all alternate. 



GENUS J.— V ERBASCUM. Linn. 



Calyx 5-partite or 5-cleft. Corolla rotate, with scarcely any 

 tube ; limb 5-partite, with the segments broad, rounded, flat or 

 slightly concave. Stamens 5 ; filaments, or at least the 3 upper 

 ones, woolly ; anthers transverse, with the lobes confluent so as to 



