BG Scrophularinee—Calceolaria. 
showy white flowers. (. violacen, syu. (. jovellana, has small 
ovate coarsely-toothed leaves and violet-purple flowers. 
Very few of the pure species are cultivated, but the hybrid 
forms are numerous. ‘They have been raised from C. amplexi- 
4 cuilis, C. integrifoliu, syn. C. rugosa, 
C. corymbosa, C. purpiirea, C. arach- 
noidea, C. thyrsiflora, ete. 
4. VERBASCUM. 
Tall biennials or perennials with 
simple alternate and racemose simple 
vr compound inflorescence. Flowers 
showy, white, yellow, violet, purple or 
red. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla rotate, 
with 5 nearly equal segments. Sta- 
mens 5. Allor only the 3 posterior fila- 
ments bearded. Capsule 2-valved, 
many-seeded. The species are nume- 
rous, and there are several forms 
known to be natural hybrids. They 
are confined to the north temperate 
and warm regions of the Old World. 
The generic name is an altered form of 
the Latin Barbascum. 
There are five or sixindigenous species 
popularly known by the name of Mul- 
lein. V. Thapsus is a tall coarse bi- 
ennial with densely woolly decurrent 
leaves and dense spikes of yellow 
flowers. V. Lychwitis has small white 
flowers; V. Blattaria is nearly glabrous, 
with a glandular branched inflore- 
scence of large yellow flowers with 
purple-bearded filaments; and V. ni- 
grum is pubescent, with angular 
almost simple stems and smaller 
: yellow flowers with purple bearded fil- 
i aments. 
Fig. 185. Verbascum Pheeniceum. 1. Vi. Pheenicewm (fig. 185). —A 
(4 nat. size.) : 
slender glabrous perennial about 3 or 
4 feet hivh. Flowers vi let, rose, or nearly white. A native 
of the South of Europe, flowering all the Summer. 
