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3. Verbascum Lychnitis L,. White 

 Mullen. (Fig. 3231.) 

 Verbascum Lychnitis L- Sp. PI. 177. 1753. 



Stem angled, rather stout, paniculatelv branched 

 above, 2-4% high, densely covered, as well as 

 the lower surfaces of the leaves, with a white canes- 

 cent nearly stellate pubescence. Leaves oblong, 

 ovate or oblong-lanceolate, crenate-dentate, 2 / ~7 / 

 long, the upper acute, sessile, but not decurrent on 

 the stem, the lower obtuse or acute at the apex and 

 narrowed into margined petioles; flowers in a large 

 terminal panicle, racemose on its branches, white 

 or cream-color, 5 // -6 // broad, nearly sessile; pilose 

 hairs of the 3 shorter filaments white; capsule 

 about 2" high, equalling or exceeding the calyx. 



In fields and waste places, Ontario to New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania. Reported from Kansas. Naturalized 

 from Europe. Native also of Asia. June-Sept. Its 

 down once used for lighting, hence Lichnitis, lamp. 



4. Verbascum Blattaria L. Moth 

 Mullen. (Fig. 3232.) 



Verbascum Blattaria L. Sp. PI. 178. 1753. 



Stem erect, strict, slender, terete, glabrous or 

 sparingly glandular-pubescent, usually quite sim- 

 ple, 2-6 high. Leaves oblong, ovate or lan- 

 ceolate, dentate, laciniate, or pinnatifid, acute or 

 acuminate, the upper j4 / -2yi / long, truncate or 

 cordate-clasping at the base, the lower and basal 

 ones sessile or somewhat petioled, sometimes i 

 long, seldom present at flowering time; raceme 

 i-2 long, loose; pedicels spreading, ]4. f -\' long, 

 bracted at the base; corolla yellow or white, about 

 i / broad, with brown marks on the back; filaments 

 all pilose with violet hairs; capsule depressed-glo- 

 bose, 3 // in diameter, longer than the calyx. 



In fields and waste places, Quebec to Florida, west 

 to Minnesota and Kansas. Naturalized from Europe. 

 Native also of Asia. June-Nov. Said to repel the 

 cockroach (Blatla), whence the name Blattaria ; frequented by moths, hence Moth Mullen. 



2. CYMBALARIA Medic. Phil. Bot. 2: 70. 1791. 



Perennial creeping or spreading herbs, with long-petioled, mostly lobed, palmately veined 

 leaves, and solitary axillary white to violet flowers. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla irregular, 2- 

 lipped, short-spurred; upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed; throat nearly or quite closed by 

 the palate. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, included, the filaments filiform. Style very 

 slender. Capsule dehiscent by 2 terminal 3-toothed pores. Seeds numerous, small. [From 

 the Greek for cymbal.] 



About 9 species, natives of the Old World. 



i. Cymbalaria Cymbalaria (L.) Wettst. 

 Kenilworth or Coliseum Ivy. (Fig. 2333.) 



Antirrhinum Cymbalaria L- Sp. PI. 612. 1753- 

 Linaria Cymbalaria Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 17. 1768. 

 Cymbalaria Cymbalaria Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl. Nat. 

 Pfl. Fam. 4: Abt. 3b, 58. 1891. 



Perennial, glabrous; stem trailing, branched, often 

 ' rooting at the nodes, 3 / -i2 / long. Leaves slender-peti- 

 oled, reniform-orbicular, palmately 3-5-veined, 3-5- 

 lobed, }i'-\' in diameter, the lobes broad and obtuse; 

 petioles usually as long as the blade; flowers axillary, 

 solitary, blue or lilac, 4 // -5 // long; peduncles slender, 

 recurved, shorter than the petioles; calyx-segments 

 lanceolate, acute; palate yellowish; capsule globose, 

 several-seeded; seeds rugose, wingless. 



Waste places and roadsides, adventive from Europe, New 

 York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and in seaport ballast. 

 Other English names are Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Ivy-weed, 

 Climbing or Roving Sailor, Aaron 's-beard, Wandering Jew, 

 Mother-of-thousands,Oxford-weed, Pennywort. June-Aug. 



