188 53. SCROPHULARIACEiE. 



Native. Viatical, Septal. Found northward as far as 

 Aberdeen and Moray ; but Dr. Murray and the Rev. G. 

 Gordon, who record it there, alike pronounce it introduced. 

 Professor Balfour found it in the Isle of Arran, and Mr. 

 Gardiner includes it in the Flora of Forfarshire, as if native 

 in that county. 



Verbascum thapsiforme, Schrad. 

 Verbascum thapsoides, Huds. 



Area (3). 



Incognit. In Kent, according to Hudson and Lindley. 

 I do not clearly undei'stand what these authors intend under 

 the above names. The variety of V. Lychnitis, V. thap- 

 soides of Hudson, " has frequently been produced in my 

 garden by the farina of V. Thapsus falling upon the stigma 

 of V. Lychnitis." (Mr. Griffith, in B. G. vol. i. p. 169.) 



741. Verbascum Lychnitis, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 (4) 5 * 7 [8] ****** (15 16), 

 South limit in Cornwall, Devon, Sussex, Kent. 

 North limit in Denbigh, Stafford ; — or Stirling, &c. 

 Estimate of provinces 5. Estimate of comities 8. 

 Latitude 50 — 54 (57). English type of distribution. 

 Agi'arian region. Inferagrarian zone. 

 Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 

 Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 

 Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 48 (47). 

 Native. Viatical. Recorded for 20 counties ; but I fear 

 that in several of them the species either was mistaken, or 



