260 57. SCKOPHULABIACEiB. 



wool ; the 2 glatrous ones about 4 times as long as their 

 slightly decurrent anthers. — Waste ground. B. VII. VIII. 

 Sigh-taper. E. S. I. 



** Leaves not decurrent. Sacemes branched, panicled. Anth.all 

 reniform, not decurrent. 



t Flowers yellow or whitish ; hairs on the filaments white. 



2. V. lychnitis (L.) ; I. crenate nearly glahroits above woolly 

 and powdery beneath, lower 1. elliptic-oblong wedgeshaped below 

 scarcely stalked, upper 1. sessile ovate-acuminate with a rounded 

 base, St. angular panicled above with ascending branches, stam. 

 equal, filaments all with white hairs. — E. B. 68. R. xx. 1648. 

 — Height 2 — 3 feet. Fl. on short stalks, small, many, cream- 

 coloured or rarelv white. — Roadsides and waste places. B. VI. 

 — Vin. White Mullein. E. 



3. V. pulverulen'tum (Vill.) ; I. obscurely crenate clothed with 

 mealy deciduous wool on both sides, lower 1. oblong-elliptic at- 

 tenuated into a stalk, upper 1. sessile acuminate, st. terete pani- 

 cled above with patent branches, stam. nearly equal scarlet with 

 white hairs.— J?. B. 487. R. xx. 1667,— Height about 3 feet. 

 Fl. on very short stalks, which, as well as the calyx, are densely 

 covered with wool, bright yellow. Cal. -teeth often glabrous. — 

 Roadsides in Norfolk and Sufiblk. B. VII. Hoary Mullein. 'E. 



tt Flowers yellow ; hairs on the filaments purple. 



4. V. nigrum (L.) ; 1. doubly crenate nearly glabrous above 

 subpiibescent beneath, lower 1. cordate or ovate-oblong with long 

 stalks, upper 1. cordate-ovate nearly sessile, st. angular, raceme 

 elongated, pedicels twice as long as the calyx, stam. equal with 

 purple hairs. — E. B. 59. R. xx. 1649. — Fl. in clusters in a 

 nearly simple long spike, small, bright yellow. — [j3. tomentosum 

 (Bab.) ; 1. subpubescent above woolly beneath, fl. smaller.] — 

 Banks and waysides. [/3. Alderney.] P. VII. VHI. Doj7i; 

 Mullein. B. S. 



*** Leaves not, or very slightly decurrent. 



5. V. Blattdria (L.) ; 1. crenate glabrous, lower 1. ovate-oblong 

 blunt sinuate, xipper 1. oblong or suboordate ■ semiamplexicaul, 

 pedicels solitan/ nearly tioice as long as the bract, stam. and anth. 

 unequal.—^. B. 393. R. xx. 1653.— Height 5— 6 feet. Raceme 

 glandular-pilose. Fl. cream-coloured. Filaments with purple 

 hairs, the 2 longer hairy only on the inside. — On gravelly banks, 

 rare. B. VTII. Moth-Mullein. E. *I. 



