PLATE CLXIIL. 
VERBASCUM FERRUGINEUM. 
— Rufty flowered Mullein. 
CLASS V. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GENERIC 
Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- 
partitum, parvum, perfiftens; laciniis erec- 
tis, acutis. 
Coroxia -Monopetala, rotata, fub-inzequalis; 
tubus cylindraceus, breviffimus; limbus pa- 
tens, quinque-partitus; laciniis ovatis, ob- 
t 
STAMINA. ob coca ta quinque, fubulata, co- 
rolla breviora. Anthere fubrotunde, com- 
pr ; 
Pisritio, en fubrotundum. Stylus fi- 
liformis, Seomieodig ftaminum, inclinatus. 
tufum 
Stigma craffiufculum, o 
Pericarrium. Capfula fubrotunda, bilocula- 
Tis, bivalvis, fu uperne dehifcens. Recepta- 
cula dimidiato-ovata, diffepimento affixa, 
SEMINA numerofa, angulata 
Obs. In e Gating roctieate fant, 
villifque coloratis inferne veftita 
SPECIFIC 
Verbafcum — fubvillofis, rugofis; caulinis 
Saas ualiter crenatis; radicali- 
ds chloe peta duplicato-crenatis, 
ORDER I. 
Five Chives. One Pointal.- 
CHARACTER. 
EmpaLement. Cup of one leaf, with five divi- 
fions, fmall, somata; fegments upright, 
ted. 
rp po 
Hebi ine petal, wheel- -fhaped, rather un- 
equal; tube cylindrical, very thort; border 
Steading, — divifions ; fegments egg- 
fhaped, blun a 
a "fv ve, awl-fhaped, fhorter than 
the bloffom. Tips roundith, flattened, up- 
two —. {plitting at the top ‘ies - 
cles the form of half an egg, fixed = the 
pirction 
SEEDs “geet angular. 
n the greateft number of fpecies the 
chives are bent downward, and clothed with 
_ Soft, coloured hairs on the lower part. 
CHARACTER. 
Mallein with leaves a little hairy and rough; 
em -leaves almoft without foot - ftalks, 
equally fcolloped; leaves from the root ob- 
long, heart-haped, and doubly fcolloped. 
saad a : 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Leaf of the oma from the lower part. 
: ~ The Empaleme 
- A Blofiom, peor from the front, 
5. One Chive magnified, 
: The fame cut open from the fide, to thew the infertion of the chives. 
6. The Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified, 
nt 
two months; that is 
. the Hon, W. H. Irby, 
5 of, the Kew Catalogue, 
badly our plant 3 but, though 
to Pag from Apri, beng ot “Hex 
from his “e at the Diinads, Farnham fori, Buc 
tina from Gatievina ty Hortus Medicus Edin- 2 
it ftands § a name in the book 
rds, for above 
