^ PENTANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. [Verbascion. 



July, Aug. ^ — Stem 4 — 5 feet high, angular, wingetl. Leaves thick, 

 excessively woolly, ovate or oblong. Spike long, cylindrical. Flowers 

 handsome, golden-yellow ; when dried in the sun, giving out a fatty mat- 

 ter used in Alsace as a cataplasm in hemorrhoidal complaints. 3 of the 

 stamens hair}' ; tlie 2 longer ones glabrous. 



2. V. Lijchnitis, L. (tohite 3Ttillein) ; leaves oblong wedge- 

 sliaped nearly glabrous above, stem angular and panicled. E. 

 Bot. t. 58. 



Road-sides, pastures, and fields, especially in a chalky soil. On clay- 

 slate, near Truro. Fl. July, Aug. $ . — Flowers numerous, rather small, 

 cream-coloured. Leaves very woolly below. Stamens hairy. 



3. y. *'tfiapsif6i-7ne, Schrad." ( T/iapsus-like 3Iidlein) ; "stem 

 simple, leaves lanceolato-ovate, raceme spiked dense, bracteas 

 longer than the woolly calyx, segments of the corolla obovate 

 rounded, 2 anthers oblong. D.C. Lindl. Si/n. p. 181. — " V. 

 thapsoides, Willd." 



" By road sides in Kent. Fl. July, Aug. $ ." Lindley. 



4. V. pnlveridentum, Vill. {yeUoio hoary Mulleiri) ; leaves 

 ovato-oblong subserrated pulvernlento-tomentose on both sides, 

 stem rounded panicled. E. Bot. t. 487. 



Road-sides on a gravelly or chalky soil : frequent in Norfolk and Suf- 

 folk. Den near Cullen, Scotland. Fl. July. $ . — Remarkable for the 

 mealy down on the leaves, which is easily removed from the surface. 

 Flowers large, handsome. " If the plant be struck suddenly and violently, 

 the expanded corollas will in a short time fall off, and the calyx will close 

 over the germen." {Sm.) 



5. V. nigrum, L. (dark Mullein) ; leaves oblongo-cordate 

 petioled crenate subpubescent. E. Bot. t. 59. 



Banks and way-sides, particularly in a gravelly or chalky soil. Rare 

 in Scotland. Between Seton and Gosford. Banks of the Esk, and 

 Borthwick Castle. Fl. July, Aug. %. — Leaves nearly glabrous, dark 

 green. Flowers in clusters on the almost simple long spike. Cor, 

 rather large, yellow. Stam. with bright purple hairs. 



6. V. virgdltim. With. (Jarge-jioioered Primrose-leaved Mul- 

 lein) ; " leaves ovato-lanceolate toothed sessile, radical ones 

 downy somewhat lyrate, stem branched, flowers aggregate part- 

 ly sessile." E. Bot. t. 550. 



Fields, and by road-sides, rare. Near Wrexham, 3Irs Nash ; also, 

 Severe, near Worcester, (naturalized.) Perfectly wild about Gresford. 

 Mr J. E. Bowman. Near Plymouth and Lincoln. Torpoint, Corn- 

 wall, George Oman, Esq. Fl. Aug. $ . — Allied to the following. 



7. V. Blattdria, L. (Moth Mulleiri) ; leaves amplexicaul cre- 

 nate oblong glabrous radical ones sinuate, upper ones acuminate, 

 flowers stalked remote collected into an elongated branched 

 raceme. E. Bot. t. 393. 



Banks in a gravelly soil, rare. In several places in Kent, (whence 

 specimens have been sent to me, from Cobham,) and not unfrequent in. 

 Devonshire and Cornwall. Fl. July. 0, 



