VERBASCUM. 



nate, half-decurrent ; uppermoft pointed. Clufters pani- 

 cled. Tufts diftant, many-flowered. Anthers equal." — 

 Native of the duchy of Mecklenberg-Swerin. Link. The 

 habit of this fpecies refembles V. Lychnitls. Root biennial. 

 Stem from four to fix feet high, ereft, thick ; rather angu- 

 lar, brown, and much branched in the upper part ; the 

 branches fpreading, angular, and, like the reft of the ftem, 

 flightly downy. Upper fide of the leaves covered with very 

 thin pubefcence ; under more hoar)', and more thickly 

 clothed : the radical, and lower ftem-leaves, often a foot or 

 more in length, four or five inches wide, tapering down into 

 the footftalk. Flowers yellow, from fifteen to twenty in 

 each tuft of the principal clujler, on ftalks twice the length 

 of the calyx ; fewer in the lateral clufters ; the lower tufts 

 many of them very diftant from each other. BraHeas 

 ovato-lanceolate. Calyx and corolla larger than in V. Lych- 

 nitls. Stamens like thofe of that fpecies. Schroder. 



15. V. mucronalum. Pointed-leaved Mullein. Lamarck 

 Dift. v. 4. 218. Schrad. n. 17 ; excluding perhaps Tourne- 



fort's fynonym " Leaves crenate, clothed with denfe 



hoary down ; radical ones oblong-lanceolate ; thofe of the 

 ftem oblong, acute, half-decurrent ; uppermoft ovate, long- 

 pointed. Spikes panicled. Flowers in nearly feffile heads." 

 Found in Crete by M. Labillardiere. Root biennial.. Whole 

 herbage covered with hoary down. Stem, in the cultivated 

 plant at leaft, from fix to eight feet high, ftraight, thick, 

 branched upwards. Lower leaves one and a half, or two 

 feet long, on fhort ftalks, acute ; tlie reft more pointed, and 

 unequally decurrent. Spikes panicled, various in length, 

 their points fomewhat incurved. Flowers yellow, rather 

 large, in diftant, many-flowered, feflile heads, hoary with 

 deciduous woollinefs. BraReas lanceolate. Filaments all 

 clothed with whitifh wool. Schrader. 



16. V.Jinuatum. Scollop-leaved Mullein. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 254. Willd. n. 12. Ait. n. 14. Schrad. n. 18. Sm. Fl. 

 Graec. Sibth. t. 227, unpubl. (V. crifpum et finuatum ; 

 Bauh. Hift. v. 3. 860. V. aliud; Camer. Epit. 882. 

 Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 492. V.laciniatum Matthioli ; Dalech. 

 Hift. 1302. ?'XO|Li,o; fiiXa< ; Diofc. book 4. chap. 104.) — 

 Leaves ferrated, powdery ; radical ones pinnatifid and 

 wavy ; the reft undivided, decurrent. Stem panicled, many- 

 flowered. — Native of dry barren expofed fituations, in the 

 fouth of Europe, and north of Africa ; a hardy biennial, 

 long known in our botanical gardens, but feldom long pre- 

 ferved. Dr. Sibthorp obfervedthis to be the moft common 

 Mullein throughout Greece and all the circumjacent iflands. 

 The root is brown, and rather woody-- Heri of a dark 

 green, befprinkled with loofe tufts of powdery, hoary, 

 ftarry pubefcence, but far lefs woolly, or uniformly hoary, 

 than any of the preceding fpecies. The leaves alfo differ 

 widely from all the foregoing, in being pinnatifid half way 

 to the midrib, with jagged and plaited lobes ; the ra- 

 dical ones a fpan long, on fhortifti italks ; the reft 

 fmaller, feffile, decurrent ; the upper ones very fmall, ovato- 

 lanceolate, undivided, more decurrent, reflexed ; all of 

 them reticulated with veins, rugofe ; moft hoary beneath. 

 The Jlem is ereft, one and a half or two feet high, zigzag, 

 alternately branched from top to bottom, panicled, often 

 tinged with dark purple. Panicle fpreading, with copious, 

 hoary, fomewhat winged branches. Flowers generally tufted, 

 ttalked, yellow, with purple hairy Jilaments. Capfule fraall, 

 roundifli. The figure of Matthiolus, copied by Dalechamp 

 and Tabernasmontanus, is more like the cultivated variety 

 of the following fpecies, but differs ia its branching panicled 



Jem. 



Seft. 2. Leaves not decurrent. 



17. V.pficatum. Plaited-leaved Mullein. Prodr. Fl- 



Grasc.n. 524. Fl. Gra:c. t. 226, unpubl. (V. finuatum 

 (S ; Linn. Sp. PI. 255. V. pinnatifidum ; Ait. n. 15, but 

 not of Vahl nor Willdenow. V. grsecum fruticofum, folio 

 finuato candidiflimo ; Toum. Cor. 8. Voyage, v. 1. 128, 

 with a figure, (pxofxoc ?. wm Sr,\n ; Diofc. book 4. chap . 1 04. ) 

 — Leaves lyrate-finuated, crifped, fomewhat crenate, downy 

 on both fides. Spike fimple, interrupted, leafv. — Native of 

 the ifle of Hydra, and very plentiful about Athens. Root 

 tapering, pofTibly perennial. Stem afcending, fimple, leafy, 

 clothed, like the foliage and calyx, with denfe, ftarry, rigid, 

 yellowilh woollinefs. Leaves obovate-oblong, thick ; plaited 

 or crifped at the margin ; their upper furface even, and 

 almoft without fign of veins ; under reticulated : radical 

 ones ftalked, near a fpan long ; the reft feffile, clafping the 

 ftem, and gradually fmaller upward ; floral ones very fmall 

 and pointed. Splie folitary, ereft, a foot long, leafy or 

 brafteated. Flowers three or four feffile together in the 

 bofom of each braflea, yellow, almoft an inch broad. Fda- 

 ments yellow, bearded from the middle to the fiimmit. An- 

 thers all nearly alike. Capfule ovate, acute, hard, fmooth 

 when ripe. The leaves vary in acutenefs ; and in the gar- 

 den plant, raifed from Dr. Sibthorp's feeds, become more 

 dilated, flattened, and lefs crifped, refembhng the figure of 

 Matthiolus, cited under our preceding fpecies, but the pu- 

 befcence ftill remains totally different. 



18. V. auriculatum. Auricled Mullein. Prodr. Fl. 

 Graze, n. 523. Fl. Grace, t. 225, unpubl. (V. orient ale 

 maximum candidiffimum, ramis candelabrum aemulantibus ; 

 Tourn. Cor. 8.) — Leaves elliptic -oblong, downy on both 

 fides, auricled at the bafe. Clufters panicled, zigzag. — Na- 

 tive of the ifland of Samos. Biennial. The whole herb is 

 clothed with denfe fnow-white down. Stem two feet high, 

 ftout, leafy ; branched and becoming fmooth in the upper 

 part. Leaves crowded, feffile, two or three inches long, 

 bluntly pointed, accompanied by axillary tufts of fmaller 

 ones ; their upper furface covered with a denfe and even coat 

 of wool, hardly marked by rib or veins ; the under reticulated, 

 fcarcely lefs denfely clothed with a ftarry cobweb-like pu- 

 befcence : their bafe contrafted, but augmented with a 

 rounded lobe at each fide, embracing the ftem. Flowers 

 yellow, ftalked, tufted and brafteated, as in V. phlomoldes, 

 but only half as large. Calyx with fmooth points. Beard 

 of the filaments yellowifti-white. Anthers orange-coloured, 

 nearly uniform. We think Tournefort's fynonym is here 

 rightly applied, though cited by Lamarck and Schrader for 

 mucronatum, n. 15, which muft be a different plant from the 

 prefent, unlefs it be inaccurately defcribed. 



19. V. pinnatifidum. Pinnatifid Mullein. Vahl SymB, 

 v. 2. 39. Willd. n. 13, excluding the fynonym of TournC"- 

 fort, which belongs to our n. 17. — Leaves flat, pinnatifid, 

 cut, powdery ; nearly naked on the upper fide ; radical 

 ones ftalked. Stem panicled, many-flowered. — Gathered 

 by Dr. Sibthorp, on the fandy fea-fliore near Yalva, in Bi- 

 thynia. Root perennial, blackifli, divided at the fummit. 

 Stem one to two feet high, ereft, very much branched in all 

 direftions, leafy, round, dark-purp!e, fprinkled with downy 

 mealinefs. Radical leaves three inches long, on long ftalks, 

 flat, deeply pinnatifid, cut, wrinkled and veiny ; dark 

 green and almolt naked above ; paler, and powdery with 

 ftarry hairs, beneath ; the younger ones very denfely woolly ; 

 thofe of the ftem not half fo large, feffile, not decurrent, 

 lefs divided : floral ones aggregate, fpreading, extending 

 for the moft part beyond the flowers, which are feffile, 

 crowded, yellow, hoai"y externally, with orange-coloured 



flamens. Capfule nearly globofe. 



20. V. Boerhaavii. Boerhaavian Mullein. Linn. Mant. 

 45, excluding the reference to Miller ; fee n. 8. Willd. n. 3. 



(V. blat- 



