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fame manner as that, from the whitenefs of its 
leaves. : 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. ‘ 
The firft leaves are long-and large: they have 
fhort footftalks, and rife in a large tuft: they 
are undivided at the edge, :fharp at the point, and 
very white; but they differ from thofe of the 
other in this, that their whitenefs is owing to a 
‘hoary powder, which jis eafily wiped off. 
- The ftalk rifes in thecentre, and is often eleven 
foot high. 1 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, full as 
thickly as in the common mullein: they are like 
thofe from the root, but fmaller, and have the 
fame kind of hoary, or dufty matter.on them. 
The flowers are {mall and yellow: they ftand 
in a thick {pike at the top of the ftalk, and they 
have the fame fort of white dufty matter about 
them as is on the leaves. 
The feed-veffels are large, and the feeds are 
very finall. 
It is frequent in the weftern counties of Eng- 
land, growing by road fides, as the common mul- 
lein. 
C. Bauhine calls it Verbafcum mas foliis angufti- 
oribus floridus pallidis. J. Bauhine, Verbafcum 
pulverulentum flore luteo parvo. 
3. White-flowered Mulleia. 
Verbafcum flore albo. 
The root is long, large, and edged with many 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are very numerous and very. 
large: they are narrower than in the common mul- 
Iein, and very long; and they are on the upper 
fide fmooth, and of a blackifh green; but white 
and hoary underneath. 
The ftalk is tall, firm, upright, and five foot 
high. 
The leaves ftand thick upon it, and are of the 
‘fame fhape with thofe from the root, and in the 
fame manner, of a dark green, and ‘fmooth on 
the upper furface, and white and dufty below : 
a few of the upper leaves are to be excepted, 
which are white all over. - 
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1. Low Cretick Mullein. 
Verbafcum bumile Creticum foliis laciniatis. 
The root is long, thick, and: furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are ‘large, and they rife in a 
thick tuft: they have long, hairy footftalks, and 
are irregularly pinnated : they confift each of two 
“pairs of {mall pinnae, and a very large, roundifh 
“leafrat the end. 
The ftalks rife among thefe; and are nume- 
‘rous, round, not very firm, and two feet high. 
The leaves ftand alternately on thefe; and are 
of the fame fhape with thofe from the root, but 
fmaller: fome of them have the two pair of pin- 
nx, as thofe of the root, and others only one 
“pair, and the odd leaf, 
The ftalk divides into feveral branches toward 
ferrated, and they have an ill {mell 
1 that they are fmaller. ; 
The flowers ftand on long branches, into which 
the ftalk divides at the top; fo that there are ufu- 
ally many {pikes in this, as there is commonly but 
one in the other mu/ein : they are fmall and white. 
The feed veffel is large, and the feeds are very 
fmall. 
It is common by the road-fides and in dry paf- 
tures in many parts of Kent; and flowers in 
Auguft, 
C. Bauhine calls it Verbafcum lychnitis flore albo 
parvo. J. Bauhine, Verbafcum flore albo parvo. 
Others, Verbafcum lychnitis. Linnaeus: confiders 
this as a variety of the former fpecies, but it is 
really a diftinct plant : if the colour of the Rowers 
were the only difference it would be reafonable 
to join them, but the leaves and the whole herb 
differ. 
4. Black Mullein. 
Verbafcum nigrum. 
The root is long, thick, and edged with many 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are large and broad: they have 
fhort, purplith footftalks, and are fomewhat of 
the thape of the leaves of fage, but vaftly bigger : 
their colour is a blackith green : they are fharply 
The ftalks are round, thick, often redifh, up- 
right, and four or five feet high. 
The leaves ftand thick upon thefe, 
and re- 
femble thofe which firft ‘rife from 
the root, but 
Toward the top the ftalk fends out many 
branches, and thefe are all terminated by fpikes 
of flowers, which are moderately large, of a 
beautiful gold gellow, and ornamented by purple 
buttons in the centre, st 
The feed-veffel is large, fmooth, and full of 
{mall, brown feeds. 
It is frequent in Hertfordthire and many other 
counties by way fides; and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls ic Verbafeum nigrum flore ex 
luteo purpurafcente. Lobel, Verbafcum nigrum 
Salvifolium. 
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the top, and on thefe ftand the flowers in long 
{pikes : they are large and yellow. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are 
fall. 
It is a native of Crete, 
to September. 
C. Bauhine calls it Verbafcum humile Creticum 
laciniatum. Columna, Verbafcum brafice folio. 
Others make it a blattaria, but improperly. 
This is the fpecies that fome authors have called 
ardlus, aréos, and arGurus. 
and flowers from June 
2. Poppy-leaved. Mullein. 
Verbafcum nigrum foliis papaveris. 
The root is long, large, woody, and furnifhed 
with numerous fibres. 
The firft leayes are long, large, and hoary: 
3 they 
