312 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Verbascnm. 



somewhat lyrate. Stem branched. Flowers aggregate, 

 partly sessile. 



V. virgatum. With. 250. Fl. Br. 252. Engl. Bot. v. 8. t. 550. 



Blatturia flore amplo. Ger. Em. 77^- f. 



B. magno flore. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 859./. Loh. Ic. 564./. 



In fields and by way sides, rai'e. 



Found plentifully in a field near Wrexham, by Mrs. Nash ; from 

 whose garden at Bevere, near Worcester, it is presumed to have 

 established itself in several parts of that neighbourhood, as men- 

 tioned by Dr. Stokes and Dr. Withering. Rev. Mr. Baker. 



Biennial. August. 



Root thick, branched. Whole plant green, not hoary, though 

 clothed more or less with prominent, short, often forked, glan- 

 dular hairs. Stem 5 or 6 feet high, branched from the bottom, 

 ■ leafy, stout, solid, round, slightly angular, and winged from the 

 partially decurrent leaves. Radical leaves i-esembling those of 

 a Primrose, but larger, more or less lyrate, always clothed with 

 the glandular hairs above described ; those of the stem oblong- 

 lanceolate, sessile, doubly toothed, often nearly smooth ; the 

 upper ones heart-shaped, taper-pointed, more simply toothed, 

 clasping the stem, and partly decurrent. Fl. axillary, usually 

 several together, partly stalked ; the uppermost solitary, espe- 

 cially on weak plants, the leaves which accompany them being 

 diminished to slender-pointed bracteas. Calyx hairy and viscid. 

 Cor. large, bright yellow. Stamens yellow, beai'ded in the middle 

 with purple. Capsule globular. 



6. V. Blattaria. Moth Mullein. 



Leaves clasping the stem, oblong, smooth, serrated; radical 

 ones sinuated. Clusters panicled, simple. Flower-stalks 

 longer than the bracteas. 



V. Blattaria. Li7in. Sp. PI. 254. Willd. v. I. \005. Fl. Br. 253. 



Engl. Bot. V. 6. t. 393. 

 V. n. 585. Hall. Hist. v. I. 258. 

 Blattaria. Matth. Valgr.v.2. 4Q5.f. Camer. Epit. SS5.f. Trag. 



Hist. 925. f. Fuchs. Hist. 182. t. 183. 

 B. lutea. Dill, in Raii Sijn. 288. 



B. Plinii. Ger. Em. 776./. Lob. Ic. 564. f. Merr. Pin. 16. 

 B. flore luteo. Ger. Em. 778./. 



On banks, in a gravelly soil, but rare. 



Between Deptford and Greenwich. Merrett. In a lane between 

 Mitcham Common and Carshalton, and near Horn's Place, by 

 Rochester ; J. Sherard. Dill. On a bank 3 miles from Ro- 

 chester, near the river Medway. Mr. Jacob Rayer. Not un- 

 common in Devonshire and Cornwall. 



Annual. July. 



