124 Botany. 



N.O.I. SCROPHULARIACE&. 



(307) VERBASCUM, L. (MULLEIN), large biennial or perennial 

 herbs with stout wrinkled roots ; fls. open, with short 

 tube, visited by bees and drone flies. Hybrids freq. 



1140. V. thapsus, L. 78, B. On banks and hillsides on the chalk ; 

 very common. 



a. First record, 1597 : Blackheath ; about the Queen's 

 house, Eltham ; near Dartford. 



1142. V. lychnitis, L. 7 8, B. Roadsides and waste places on the 



chalk ; frequent. Fl. sterile to its own pollen (Darwin). 



1. Railway banks, Bickley. Dod. 



2. Old gravel-pit near Hayes Common, '03. W.H.G. 



3. Down side of the Vale of Cudham, '06. W.H.G. 



4. Infrequent. Hayes and Beckenham, '97. Sc. 



5. Pathside near pond, and in Ranger's Grounds, Green- 



wich Park, '01. A.D.W. 



a. First record, as 1140. 



b. Shooter's Hill, Walls of Bexley Church, etc. (1746). 



V. lychnitis X thapsus. 



1. Down. Charles Darwin. 



2. Near Magpie Bottom, Shoreham. M. 



3. Old gravel-pit below W. side of Hayes Common, '03. 



W.H.G. 

 a. Castle Wood, Shooter's Hill ; Charlton Chalk-pit, 1836. 



1143. V. nigrum, L. 7 8, P. Banks and waysides, especially on 



old river gravels ; local. Fls. sterile to its own pollen 

 (Darwin). 



1. Northfleet, H. and M. ; Knockholt, Bennett. 



2. Abundant on roadside between W. Wickham Common 



and Addington Village, '04. W.H.G. 



3. Hayes, Gates Green, '97. Sc. 



4. Road to Cudham, outside Green Street Green, '05. 



R.H.C. 



a. Blackheath, 1650; between Shooter's Hill and 

 Dartford, 1746; Charlton Wood, 1763; Woolwich 

 Warren, 1793. 



V. thapsus X nigrum. 



1. Old gravel-pit in road below W. side of Hayes Common, 

 '03. W.H.G. 



a. Near Charlton, Jackson ; near Farnborough, Syme. 



