PENTANDRIA—MONOGYNIA. Verbascum. 309 



seldom branched, (though so represented in the figure of Came- 

 rarius, commended by Haller), leafy, woolly, slightly angular, 

 winged. Leaves alternate, decurrent, ovate-oblong, minutely 

 crenate, very densely covered on both sides with white, branch- 

 ed, entangled, woolly hairs, the lowermost largest, and stalked. 

 Cluster terminal, cylindrical, dense, many-flowered. Fl. nearly, 

 but not quite, sessile, large, of a golden yellow, with red sta- 

 mens, and a green stigma. Outer bracteas ovate-lanceolate, 

 pointed, alternate, often smooth on the upper side ; inner ag- 

 gregate, smaller, very woolly. 

 /S is described with a branched stem, the upper leaves only decur- 

 rent, and the hairs of the stamens purple. The late Mr. E. Rob- 

 son traced its origin to the pollen of V. nigrum impregnating 

 V. Thapsus. Mr. D. Turner found a variety answering to this 

 description, at Barton, near Swaft'ham, Norfolk. 



2. V. Lychnitis. White Mullein. 



Leaves wedge-shaped-oblong ; stripped of down on their 

 upper side. Stem angular, panicled. 



V, Lychnitis. Linn. Sp. PL 253. Willd. v. I. 1003 ^. Fl. Br. 250. 



Engl. Bot. v.l.t. 58. Hook. Scot. 78. R. Dan. t. 586. Matth. 



Falgr. V. 2. 491./. Ger. Em. 775./. 

 V.n.5S3^. Hall. Hist. v.\. 257. 



V. flore albo parvo. Bauh. Hist.v.3.S57.f. RaiiSyn.287. 

 V. candidum fcemina. Fuchs. Hist. 847./. 

 |8. V. Thapsi. Linn. Sp. PI. 1669. 

 V. Thapsoides. Willd.v. 1.100\. Huds. 90. With.249. Sym. Syn. 



56. Schrad. Ferbasc. 25. t. 5./. 2. " Hoffmanns, et Link Lusit. 



7J. 1.214." 

 V. angustifolium ramosum, flore aureo, folio crassiore. Bauh. Hist. 



V. 3. 860 ; according to Linnaeus. 



In pastures, by road sides, and other waste places, on a chalky 



soil. 

 Plentiful in Kent. At Kinver, Staffordshire ; according to Dr. 



Stokes. 

 In several parts of the south of Scotland. Hooker. 

 ^. In Kent. Huds. 



Biennial. July, August. 



Stem erect, a yard high, straight, angular, woolly, leafy ; panicled 

 at the top. Leaves elliptic-oblong, contracted at each end, finely 

 crenate, reticulated with veins ; white with a soft downy wool- 

 liness beneath ; dark green, and almost entirely naked, above j 

 the lowermost stalked ; upper ones smaller, sessile, not decur- 

 rent, generally numerous. Branches of the panicle racemose, 

 many-flowered. FL stalked, collected into small woolly tufts. 

 Outer 6rac<eas lanceolate 3 inner very small. C«/. woolly. Cor. 



