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has also gathered it at Hastings, and it has heen found by myself 

 at Northfleet, Kent. 



HYOSCYAMUS ALBUS. Linn. 

 Found on ballast-hills at Sunderland by Mr. Robson. 



ORDER L-SCROPHULARIACEiE. 



Herbs, more rarely shrubs, with alternate, opposite, or ver- 

 ticillate leaves and no stipules. Flowers perfect, more or less 

 irregular, commonly in racemes. Calyx free from the ovary, 

 persistent, generally 5- or 4-toothed. Corolla hypogynous, mono- 

 petalous, generally 2-lipped, and then either ringent or per- 

 sonate, more rarely rotate or bellshaped or tubular ; limb 5- or 

 more rarely 4-lobed, the lobes commonly unequally united in 

 various modes, always imbricated in aestivation. Stamens inserted 

 in the tube of the corolla, generally 4, didynamous, sometimes 

 with a rudimentary fifth stamen without an anther, sometimes 

 only 2, rarely 5 with the 2 anterior ones longer than the other 3. 

 Ovary 2-celled, the cells anterior and posterior, with the placenta 

 in the centre. Style simple, stigma generally more or less dis- 

 tinctly 2-lobcd, the lobes anterior and posterior ; ovules generally 

 numerous in each cell. Fruit a capsule, opening by 2, 3, or 4 

 valves or by pores. Seeds generally numerous — in the few cases 

 where they are solitary, loose within the cells of the capsule. 

 Embryo minute, straight or slightly curved, in the midst of 

 copious albumen. 



Tribe I.— VERBASCE^). 



Corolla rotate, nearly regular, upper lip covered by the others in 

 bud. Stamens 5 (or 4 and didynamous), declinate. Inflorescence 

 usually simple, indefinite. Leaves all alternate. 



GENUS I.—V ERBASOUM. Linn. 



Calyx 5-partite or 5-cleft. Corolla rotate, with scarcely any 

 tube ; limb 5-partite, with the segments broad, rounded, flat or 

 slightly concave. Stamens 5 ; filaments, or at least the 3 upper 

 ones, woolly ; anthers transverse, with the lobes confluent so as to 



