-coloured (often yellow in the Isle of Wight). Leaves very 

 woolly below. Stamens hairy. 



7. V. nigmm L. (dark M.) ; leaves crenate nearly glabrous 

 above toinentose or pubescent beneath, lower ones cordate- 

 oblong on long stalks, upper cordate-ovate subsessile, raceme 



314 LXii. SCROFHULARIACE^. IVerbascuni. 



brous, radical ones sinuate, upper ones acuminate, flowers 

 solitary stalked remote collected into an elongated branched 

 glandular-hairy raceme, pedicels much longer than the calyx 

 -E, B. t. 39i5. 



Banks in a gravelly soil, rare. In several places in Kent, Devon- 

 shire and Cornwall. 0. 6 — 10. — Hairs o{ the Jilaments purple. 



4. V. virgdbim With, (large-flowered Prirnrose'-leaved M,)^ 

 slightly glandular hairy except the sometimes glabrous leaves 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate toothed, radical ones sinuate-lyrate 

 pedicels 2—6 or rarely solitary mostly shorter than the calyx 

 E. B. t. 550. 



Fields and by road-sides, rare. Torpolnt, Cornwall ; Plymouth • 

 Surrey; Worcester; Lincoln; Wombourne, Staffordshire; Herts; 

 Norfolk; Shropshire; Hereford; Wrexham, Denbighshire; Glamor- 

 ganshire. $. 8. — Perhaps, as suggested by Mr. Bentham, a mere 

 var. of the last. 



*** Anthers not decurrent on the filaments^ which are equal and all woolly. 

 Racemes branched^ panicled. Leaves woolly or pulverulent especially 

 beneath^ not decurrent^ 



5. V. pulverulentum YilL (yellow hoary M.) ; leaves ovate- 

 oblong subserrate pulverulento-tomentose on both sides, lower 

 ones oblong-elliptical attenuated into a stalk, upper ones sessile 

 or cordato-amplexicaul, stem rounded panicled above with 1 1 jycopcs 

 spreading branches, filaments all woolly (with white hairs). J « Salvia. 

 E. B. t. 487. V. floccosum W. et K. 



Road-sides on a gravelly or chalky soil ; frequent in Norfolk, 



Suffolk, Surrey, and Hants, Den near Cullen, Scotland. ^, 7. jlSto'«* 



Remarkable for the mealy down on the leaves, which is easily 



removed from the surface. Flowers large, handsome. " If the plant | DIextha. 

 be struck suddenly and violently, the expanded corollas will in a short 



time fall off, and the calyx will close over the germen." ( Sm.) There I ^ ^^^^^^^ 



were doubts at one time about this being the plant of Villars, from I ITHms. 



hybrids being generally preserved under that name, and probably jiOiiML 



sometimes mistaken for it by Villars himself; but, as observed by I 



Mr. Bentham, the description of Villars indicates the English plant. j "' ^^^^ 



ms 



S-TErcKit;: 



6, V. LychnitisL. (white M.) ; leaves crenate nearly glabrous 

 above woolly andpulverident beneath, lower ones elliptic-oblong 

 wedge-shaped stalked, upper sessile ovate- acuminate with a j "'^^'^^ 

 rounded base, stem angular and panicled with ascending yiSkm 

 branches, filaments all woolly (with white hairs). jE. B. t. 58. j 



Road-sides, pastures, and fields, especially in a chalky soil. On 



clayslate near Truro, ^. 7, 8. — Flowers numerous, rather small, | . 



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