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13. Euphrasia. Oal. tubularorb6llshaped,4-fidor4-toothed. 

 Cor. tubular, 2-lipped ; lower lip with 3 notched or emar- 

 giuate lobes. Antb. unequally pointed. Caps, hlunt or 

 emarginate; celk many-seeded. Seeds rather angular, 

 longitudinally ribbed ; htle subapical, 



14. Odontites. Lower cor.-lip with 3 entire lobes. Anth. 

 with 2 equal points ; otherwise like Euphrasia. 



15. SiBTHOEPiA. CaL in 5 deep spreading segments. Cor. 

 rotate, irregularly 6-cleft. Caps, compressed, orbiciilaT, 

 2-seeded, 2-valved. 



*** Stamens 2. 



16. Vekonica. Oal. 4 — 5-parted. Cor. rotate, unequally 

 4-lobed, lower lobe the smallest. Caps, compressed, 2- 

 celled. 



1. Vekbas'ctim Linn^- Mullein. 

 * Leaves strongly decurrent. Maceme dense, nearly simple. 



1. V. Thap'sus (L.) ; 1. ovate-oblong crenate densely woolly 

 on both sides all decurrent, st. simple, spike dense, pedicels 

 shorter than the calyx, cor. rotate, segments oblong blunt fila- 

 ments woolly 2 longer nearly glabrous, anth. all nearly equal. — 

 JE. B. 549. V. ScJiraderi Koch, Jt. xx. 1637.— St. 4^-5 feet high. 

 Cor. about twice as long as the calyx. Filaments with white 

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

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

 High-taper. E. 8. 1. 



** Leaves not decurrent. Racemes branched, panicled. Anth, aU 

 remform, not decurrent. 



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



2. V. Zychnitis (L.) ; I. crenate nearly gldbrom above woolly 

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

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

 hase, St. angular panicled above with ascending branches, stem, 

 equal, filaments all with white hairs.— -E. B. 58. R. xx. 1648. 

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

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

 —VIII. White Mullein, E. 



' Hybrids occur in this genus. Four are figured in 8i/, E. B. 

 t. 843, 844, 845, 846. 



