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Browallia, Brunsfelsia, Salpiglossis, and Schizanthus, belonging to the 
wholly exotic tribe Salpiglossidee, now generally transferred to Solanacee ; 
and Calceolaria, Alonsoa, Angelonia, Maurandia, Lophospermum, Pau- 
lownia, Collinsia, Pentstemon, Torenia, and several others of the tribe 
Antirrhinee.. The exotic genera of Rhinanthee, with the exception of a 
few allied to Veronica and Digitalis, are mostly parasitical, and therefore, 
although very handsome, not in cultivation. The south-west European 
Lrinus alpinus, allied to Veronica, but with a 5-lobed corolla with a slender 
tube, is said to have established itself as an escape from gardens, on old 
walls, on the borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire. 
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I. VERBASCUM. MULLEIN. 
_ Tall, erect, stiff herbs, often woolly ; with coarse, alternate leaves, more 
or less toothed ; and yellow, white, or rarely purple flowers, either solitary 
under each bract or in short dense cymes or branches, forming terminal, 
simple spikes or branched panicles. Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla rotate, 
or concave, with a very short tube, and 5 broad, rounded lobes. Stamens 
5, with all the filaments woolly or the two lower ones glabrous. Capsule 
ovoid, opening at the partition in 2 valves, with very numerous small 
seeds. 
The genus extends over Europe and northern and central Asia, but is 
most abundant in the Mediterranean region, where the species vary much, 
besides frequently producing natural hybrids, so that their distinction has 
become very complicated. ‘The few British species are however more easily 
recognized, 
Leaves decurrent on the stem, ere pony: Flowers ina 
dense, simple spike ' 1. V. Thapsus. 
Leaves not decurrent or the upper’ ones very slightly 80. 
Flowers in a raceme or panicle. 
Plant glabrous or slightly glandular-hairy. Two stamens 
longer than the others, with long anthers. Flowers 
large, one or few to each bract. (Raceme usually 
simple.) 
Pedicals mostly longer than the calyx ° ° : . 2. V. Blattaria. 
Pedicels shorter than the calyx . . 3 V. virgatum. 
Plant with more or less white cottony down ‘or wool, espe- 
cially on the calyx and under side of the leaves. Flowers 
rather small, several to each bract. 
Lower leaves cordate at the base. Raceme nearly simple. 
Hairs of the filaments yellow. . - 4. V. nigrum. 
Lower leaves narrowed at the base. Raceme "panicled. 
Hairs of the filaments white. 
Down short and powdery. Upper side of the leaves 
nearly glabrous . . 5. V. Lychnitis, 
Down a mealy wool, easily rubbed off, on both sides of 
the leaves . ° “ - . ; - 6. V. pulverulentum, 
1, V. Thapsus, Linn. (fig. 724). Great Mullein.—A_ stout, erect 
biennial, simple or branched, 2 to 4 feet high, clothed with soft woolly 
hairs. - Leaves oblong, pointed, slirhtly toothed, narrowed at the base into 
two wings running a long way down the stem ; the lower ones often stalked, 
and 6 or 8 inches long or more. Flowers in a dense, woolly terminal 
Spike, sometimes a foot or more long. Corolla yellow, usually 6 to 9 lines 
diameter, slightly concave; 3 of the filaments are covered with yellowish 
woolly hairs, and have short 1-celled anthers; the two longer stamens 
