362 VERBASCUM THAPsiFORME. [December, 



any of its localities (an English station, the chalk-hill near Box- 

 ley, is an exception). There was a Verbascum, resembling V. 

 Thapsus, Antirrhinum majus, and an Orobanche of a blood-red 

 colour. Labiatce, a numerous Order on the calcareous wastes 

 of the South, were rather frequent, and later in the year there 

 are, no doubt, many more. Lavandula Spica and Phlomis Lych- 

 nites were there, but not yet in flower; Thymus vulgaris and 

 Rosmarinus officinalis of course ; Salvia clandestiyia ; a Teucrium 

 not in flower, T believe the dark-coloured one which I had 

 found near Zaragoza ; Siderites hirsuta, one of the goodliest of 

 its stiff" genus. Of Plantains, I saw only the common Plantago 

 Cynops. Of Apetalce, only Daphne Laureola, and four Euphorbia, 

 E. Characias, serrata, amygdaloides, and another. The Mono- 

 cotyledonece, besides those previously mentioned, were Orchis 

 mascula ; Gladiolus byzantinus (in the hot lower regions) ; the 

 furze-like Asparagus {A. horridus), which I flrst found at Va- 

 lencia ; Tamus communis ; Smilax aspera ; Ruscus aculeatus, a 

 plant which looks more congenial to the South than to the damp 

 thickets which shelter it in our own country -, Convallaria Poly- 

 gonatum • Asphodelus ramosus and fistulosus, and lastly, though 

 not yet in flower, Lilium Martagon, that ornament of mountain 

 woods on the continent of Europe, which though existing in 

 profuse abundance in several similar localities in our south- 

 eastern counties, an idle scrupulosity so long kept out of our 

 British Floras. 



Here I am obliged to end what is no doubt a very scanty 

 sample of the treasures by which, a botanist able to visit Mon- 

 serrat repeatedly and at various seasons, might hope to have 

 his labour rewarded. There only remains to be recorded a two 

 days' excursion in the Spanish Pyrenees, and my memoranda 

 of Spanish botany will have been exhausted. 



Verbascum thapsiforme, Schradei'i. History of the Species or 



Variety ? 



Mr. Hudson, in his excellent 'Flora Anglica,^ 3rd ed. 1798, 

 is the first English author who has described and localized this 

 plant, about which there are so many different and conflicting 

 opinions, both among the ancients and among the moderns. 



