Verbdscum.] LXil. SCROPHULARiace^. 



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Moist shady places, in Devonshire, Cornwall, and the Scilly Isles, 

 By the stream running from Waldron Down, Sussex ; near Nettle- 

 combe, Somerset, Jersey and Guernsey. At Connor hill near Dingle; 

 and near Brandon, Ireland. Ij-. 7, 8. — A graceful little plant, 

 hairy, with creeping filiform stems, and alternate orbicular-reniform 

 broadly crenate leaves. Flowers axillary, solitary, on short stalks ; 

 the two lowermost segments of the corolla yellowish, the three upper 

 broader and pink. 



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C. Stamens 5. (Gen. 13,) 

 13, Verbascum Linn, Mullein. 



CaL 5-partite. Co7\ rotate, irregular. Stam, 5, tlie three 

 upper or all of tbem hairy. Caps, of 2 cells and 2 valves, 

 septicidal. — Name altered from Barbascum^ from harha, a heard; 

 in allusion to the shaggy nature of its foliage. 



* Anthers of the longer glabrous starnens more or less decurrent on one 

 side on the filaments. Raceme spiked^ densCy nearly sessile. Leaves 

 decurrent, woolly. 



1. V. Thdpsus L. {great M,) ; stem simple, leaves all de- 

 current woolly on both sides, spike of flowers very dense, 

 pedicels shorter than the calyx, corolla concave in the throat 

 about twice as long as the calyx, 2 stamens longer glabrous 

 their anthers very shortly decurrent. JE, B. t. 549. 



Banks and waste ground, in a light sandy, gravelly, or chalky 

 soil. $ , 6 — 8. — Stem nearly simple, 4 — 5 feet high, angular, winged. 

 Leaves thick, excessively woolly, ovate or oblong. Spike long, cylin- 

 drical. Flowers handsome, golden-yellow ; when dried in the sun, 

 giving out a fatty matter used in Alsace as a cataplasm in haemor- 

 rhoidal complaints. Three of the stamens with white woolly hairs ; 

 the two longer ones glabrous. 



2. V. "" thapsiforme Schr^id; (Thapsus-like M.) ; stem simple, 

 ]j leaves decurrent woolly on both sides, raceme spiked dense, 



2 stamens longer glabrous their anthers much decurrent, corolla 

 flat about 4 times as long as the calyx. V. thapsoides Huds, ? 

 V. Thapsus Mey, Koch, 



Everywhere in Kent; Huds, $, 7, 8. — The foreign plant is 

 closely allied to the last, but readily distinguished by the corolla and 

 anthers of the long stamens. As to the British species it rests wholly 

 on Hudson's authority, and Mr. Griflith states that the V, thapsoides 

 Huds. has frequently been produced in his garden by the pollen of 

 V. Thapsus falling upon the stigma of V, Lychnitis (Bot. Guide i. 

 p. 169.) 



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the filaments which are hairy on the inside, 

 together. 



Flowers solitary, or 2 



Leaves glabrous or glandular-hairy, sessile ; upper ones 

 semiamplexicaul or slightly decurrent. 



3. V. 



Blattdria Jj, (Moth M,); leaves crenate oblong gla- 



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