116 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



as the large triangular - lanceolate calyx - segments. Plant sub- 

 glabrous ; the leaves and stem glandular-puberulent ; the rachis, 

 pedicels, bracts, calyx-segments, ovary, and base of style, clothed 

 with short gland-tipped hairs. 



By roadsides and in waste places. Rare, and probably native 

 only in Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset ; though it occurs in many 

 other counties as far North as Denbigh, Salop, Stafford, and 

 Lincoln. 



England. Biennial or annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 2 to 5 feet high, slightly angular. Boot-leaves, including 

 the indistinct petiole, 3 inches to 1 foot long ; stem-leaves con- 

 siderably smaller, all of them varying very much in the incision 

 of the margins. Raceme long, the bracts ovate or lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Pedicels usually 2 to 6 together or rnore rarely solitary. 

 Blowers bright-yellow, 1 to 1^ inch across. Capsule the size of a 

 pea, nearly globular. Blant green, clothed with distant very short 

 glandular hairs ; the whole of the inflorescence with numerous 

 gland-tipped hairs. 



Large-flowered Mullein. 



SPECIES (!) VI— VERBASCUM BLATTARIA. Linn. 



Plate DCCCCXLII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLIII. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 56. 



Stem erect, simple or more rarely branched. Radical leaves 

 oblanceolate, insensibly attenuated into short petioles ; lower leaves 

 attenuated at the base and sub-petiolate ; intermediate ones oblong- 

 acute, sessile, semi-amplexicaul ; uppermost ovate or lanceolate, 

 cordate, scmi-amplexicaul and not sensibly decurrent on the stem ; 

 all crenate or doubly dentate ; the lowest sometimes slightly pin- 

 natifid towards the base. Flowers long-stalked, always solitary, in 

 a lax raceme at the extremity of the stem and also of the branches 

 when the latter are present. Pedicels ascending-spreading, longer 

 than the calyx at the time of flowering, and twice as long as the 

 capsule in fruit. Limb of the corolla flat, five or six times as long 

 as the tube. Stamens with all the filaments clothed with woolly 

 hairs, the 3 upper with rem form transverse anthers, the 2 Lower 

 with fewer hairs and with oblong reniform anthers attached 

 obliquely. Capsule large, sub-globular, half as long again as the 

 large strapshaped calyx-segments. Plant glabrous, except the 



