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rachis, pedicels, bracts, calyx-scgnicnts, ovary, and the base of the 

 styV, which are clothed with rather short gland-tipped hairs. 



By roadsides and in waste places. Hare. Probably wild in the 

 South of England and in South Wales, but frequently occurring in 

 other places as an escape from cultivation. 



England. Biennial or annual. Summer and Autumn. 



V. Blattaria is probably distinct from V. virgatum only as a 

 sub-species. Mr. Bentham and MM. Cosson and Germain con- 

 sider them mere varieties. V. Blattaria is usually a smaller and 

 more slender plant, with the flowers rather smaller, often pinkish- 

 white, though yellow is the normal colour ; the capsule is scarcely 

 so large ; the upper leaves less acuminate, and not even slightly 

 decurrent as in V. virgatum ; the pedicels are always solitary, more 

 slender, longer and more spreading than those of V. virgatum, with 

 longer glandular hairs ; the calyx-segments narrower, especially 

 towards the base ; and the lower leaves and base of the stem nearly 

 destitute of the short glandular puberulence which is present in 

 V. virgatum. The raceme of fruit in V. Blattaria is usually longer, 

 often occupying two-thirds of the stem. 



Moth Mullein. 



French, Molhie Blattaire. German, Sclmbenkraut. 



HYBRID a. 



VERBASCUM TH APSO-L YCHNITIS. Mert. & Koch. 



Plate DCCCCXLIII. 



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



V. spurium, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. i. p. 511. 



V. Thapuoides, lluds. Fl. Angl. p. 90. 



V. Lychuitis, /3 Thapsi, 8m, Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 309. 



V. Lychnitis, /3 Thapsoides, With.JU. in Arr. Brit. PI. ed. vi. Vol. II. p. 341. 



Intermediate between V. Thapsus and V. Lychnitis ; distin- 

 guished from V. Thapsus by the stem being paniculately branched 

 with erect branches ; the leaves resembling in shape those of 

 V. Lychnitis, and although distinctly decurrent, more shortly so 

 than in V. Thapsus, green above, thinly sprinkled with stellate 

 hairs, and felted beneath, but with minute hairs ; calyx-segments 

 smaller ; corolla nearly flat ; flowers shortly stalked. It differs 

 from V. Lychnitis in the stem being scarcely angular, the stem- 

 leaves, or at least the upper ones, strongly decurrent ; the upper 

 surface of the leaves more or less thickly sprinkled with stellate hairs, 

 which are larger than those oi V. Lychnitis ; the flowers more 



