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oblique. Pedicels lengthened in fruit until some of them are ns 

 long as or twice as long as the calyx, while others remain extremely 

 short. Calyx-segments very short, strapshaped-lanceolate. Cap- 

 sule J inch long, longer than the calyx-segments, thinly clothed 

 with stellate hairs. 



Remarkable for the white floccose stellate down, which is easily 

 rubbed off, and gives the plant a mouldy appearance. 



Hoar// J fit lie in. 



French, iluline Ptdvirulente. 



SPECIES III. -VERB ASCUM LYCHNITIS. Linn. 



Plate DCCCCXXXIX. 



Reich. Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCXLVIII. 

 Billot, EL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2893. 



Stem angular, paniculately branched, with the branches erect. 

 Radical leaves subrhomboidal-oblanceolate or oval, gradually con- 

 tracted into short petioles, sub-obtuse or acute ; lower stem-leaves 

 similar ; the others oval or elliptical, sessile, not decurrent, acute 

 or acuminate, irregularly crenate or repand - crenate. Flowers 

 shortly stalked, in fascicles arranged in a slightly-interrupted 

 raceme at the extremity of the stem and branches, the whole form- 

 ing a narrow pyramidal panicle. Longest pedicels about twice as 

 long as the calyx at the time of flowering. Limb of the corolla 

 flat, four or five times as long as the tube. Stamens all with the 

 filaments clothed with white woolly hairs and with uniform reni- 

 forin transverse anthers. Stigma capitate. Capsule small, twice as 

 long as the small calyx-segments. Plant with the leaves sub- 

 glabrous above, sprinkled, especially on the veins, with minute 

 stellate hairs, and more thickly clothed with similar hairs beneath ; 

 pedicels and calyx-segments densely clothed with similar hairs. 



In waste places, open woods, borders of fields, and roadsides. 

 Local. In the counties of Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Suffolk, 

 Stafford, Denbigh, and also reported from several other counties, but 

 a- doubtfully native. In Scotland, about the rocks of Stirling and 

 Dunbarton Castles, but no doubt introduced. 



England, [Scotland.] Biennial. Summer. 



Stem stout, 18 inches to i feet high, with elevated lines decur- 

 rent from the midribs of the leaves, clothed with floccose very 

 minute stellate down. Radical leaves large, frequently a foot long ; 

 stem-leaves smaller, and, as well as the radical ones, green above, 



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