378 SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIGWORT FAMILY) 
day; five stamens, with white filaments, the three upper ones 
shorter and bearded, with smaller anthers than those of the longer 
lower ones. Capsule nearly a quarter-inch high, globular, two- 
celled, downy, filled with many fine, brown seeds. 
Means of control 
Spudding or hoe-cutting of autumn rosettes; pulling or close 
cutting of flower-stalks before seed development. 
MOTH MULLEIN 
Verbdéscum Blattdria, L. 
Introduced. Biennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: June to October. 
Seed-time: July to November. 
Range: Quebec to Minnesota, southward to 
Florida and Kansas. 
Habitat: Clover fields, meadows, pastures, and 
waste places. 
A more pernicious weed than the preceding 
species, its invasion of grasslands causing the 
seeds to become mixed with those of timothy 
and other grasses, from which they are difficult 
toremove. The leaves are said to repel the 
cockroach (Blatta), whence the specific name; 
but the writer has not found the reputation 
merited. 
Stem two to five feet high, round, slender, 
simple or occasionally branched, smooth or 
sparsely set with glandular hairs near the top. 
Lower leaves oblong, sometimes pinnatifid, 
smooth, dark green, veiny, double-toothed, three 
inches to nearly a foot in length, tapering to 
petioles ; seldom present at flowering time ; upper 
leaves alternate, pointed and partly clasping. 
Flowers in long, open racemes, on spreading 
pedicels nearly an inch long, with small, pointed 
een baierearbin bracts at the base; corolla about an inch broad, 
Blattaria). x}. the five lobes unsymmetrical, creamy-white or 
