224 WEEDS OF THE FARM AND GARDEN 



Great Mullein, Velvet Dock (Verbascum Thapsus, L.). 

 A tall, densely woolly annual from two to six feet 

 high; leaves oblong, thick, covered with branched hairs, 

 the basal leaves margined petioled ; flowers in long, dense 

 spikes; corolla rotate, yellow or rarely white; stamens 

 unequal, the three upper shorter, woolly with short 

 anthers ; the two lower smooth with larger anthers. From 

 Nova Scotia north across the continent, south to Missouri 

 and Kansas and west to Utah. 



Moth Mullein (Verbascum Blattaria, 

 L.). Stem round, sparingly branched, 

 biennial with smooth leaves, the lower 

 petioled, oblong, ovate, lanceolate, 

 laciniate, serrate, upper clasping; flow- 

 ers in loose racemes, yellow or white 

 with a tinge of purple; all stamens 

 bearded with violet hairs; capsule 

 nearly globose ; seeds numerous. Com- 

 mon eastward, rare in the Mississippi 

 Valley; abundant in the West in Salt 

 Lake Basin. 



Toadflax, Butter and Eggs (Linaria 

 vulgaris, Hill). A smooth, erect, per- 

 ennial herb, one to three feet high ; 

 leaves numerous, linear or nearly so, 

 subalternate, pale; raceme dense, of 

 Fig. 141. Toad- yellow flowers, corolla one inch or 



upper lip erect, two-lobed, lower three- 

 lobed; calyx five-parted; stamens four, didynamous, not 

 exserted; fruit a capsule, opening by one or more holes 

 in the top; seeds small, numerous, winged. Fields and 

 roadsides. Naturalized from Europe. 



Purple Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea, L.). Biennial or 

 annual pubescent herb with stout stem ; lower leaves 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, slender-petioled, upper leaves 



