PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Verbascum. 61 



A handful of the fresh, or half a drachm of the dried Is. boiled in 

 half a pint of milk, recommended strongly to be given night and 

 morning, for some weeks, in scabby complaints, Crusta lactea of 

 young children. 3fed. Jour. ii. p. 188. 



VERBASCUM.' Mullein/ 



V. TkapsusJ Great Mullein. High Taper. Leaves 

 running down the stem, notched, woolly on both sides. 

 Stem simple. Cluster dense. Flowers almost stalk- 

 less. E. B. 549. Tapsus barbatus. G. E. 773. 



Road sides, walls, on chalk or gravel. Sm. 

 Bien. Jul^. 



Stem erect, straight, three to five feet, leafy, woolly, winged. Ls. 

 alternate. Fl. spike terminal, erect, cylindric, many flowered : 

 Fl. large, bright yellow, rarely white. Stam. yellow, hairy, 

 three in number, two long, smooth : not so fig. in E. B. Anth. 

 red. 



A handful of the Ls. boiled in a pint of cow's milk to half a 

 pint, sweetened, and strained, an emollient medicine, and to allay 

 irritation in piles. This draught may be taken at bed-time. 

 Has been recommended in obstinate diarrhoea, and as an external 

 application to piles. Said to intoxicate fish. The down may serve 

 for tinder, as the leaves of the Coltsfoot. Fl. dried in the sun, give 

 out a fatty matter, which may be used as a cataplasm in hemorr- 

 hoidal complaints. 



V. nigrum. Dark, or Black 31. Sage-leaved M. Leaves 

 oblong-heart-shaped, stalked, waved, notched, slightly 

 downy. Spike mostly solitary. E. B. 59. H. L. fas. 

 2. 103. G. E. 77<5. 



Banks, way-sides, on gravel or chalk. * Sm. Nettlebed. Henley. 



Stokenchurch. Sb. (Road between Besselsleigh and Appleton 



Common. jB.r.) 

 Per. July. 

 Stem two or three feet, angular, brown or purplish. Fl. spike long, 



not very compact, upright, cylindrical, one only, for most part. 



Fl. bright yellow ; filam. densely clothed with violet coloured 



hairs. 



Beauty of the golden cor. much enriched by the tints of purplish 

 brown at the mouth of the tube, and the yellowish scarlet of the 

 anth. 



' YeThascum. Irritability of some species, e. g. V. pulverulentum. Two or 

 three smart blows being given to the stem with a stick, all the corollas open, 

 and in a few minutes fall off. The calyx closes round the germens. This 

 takes place in still warm weather. 



« Myl, dust, An. Sax. from the leaves. 



3 Name of an island. 



