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THE SCROPHULAKJA FAMILY. 



6. Hoary Mullein. 



Fig. 724. 



Verbascum pulverulentum, Vill. 

 (Fig. 724.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 487.) 



A stately species, growing often to 

 the height of 3 feet or more, terminating 

 in a long, stiff, pyramidal panicle, with 

 spreading branches, and remarkable for 

 the mealy white wool which clothes the 

 whole plant but is easily rubbed off. 

 Leaves sessile or the lower ones narrowed 

 into a short footstalk, broadly oblong and 

 crenate. Flowers numerous in small clus- 

 ters, about the size of the last two species, 

 yellow, with white hairs to the filaments. 



On roadsides, and dry, stony wastes, 

 in central and especially southern Eu- 

 rope, not extending so far east as the 

 preceding species, nor into northern 

 Germany. In Britain, apparently con- 

 fined to Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, and 

 Hants. Fl. summer. 



II. SNAPDRAGON. ANTIKBHE5TUM. 



Herbs, with the lower leaves often opposite, the upper ones alter- 

 nate, and the flowers, often showy, solitary in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, or forming terminal racemes. Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla 

 with a broad tube, slightly protruding below the calyx on the lower 

 side, but not spurred, as in Linaria ; the divisions of the limb arranged 

 in two lips, with a projecting palate closing the mouth. Capsule ob- 

 lique, 2-celled, opening at the top, by 2 or 3 pores. 



The species are not numerous, chiefly confined to the Mediterranean 

 regions, or more especially to south-western Europe. 



Perennial, with showy flowers. Sepals broad and short . . 1 . Great 

 Annual. Sepals narrow, as long as the corolla 2. Lesser S. 



1. Great Snapdragon. Antirrhinum majus, Linn. 



(Fig. 725.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 129.) 



Stem perennial at the base, forming a leafy tuft; the flowering 



branches erect, 1 to 2 feet high, glabrous or slightly downy, often 



