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FLORA, re see 
Popasure- ‘GARDEN. 
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ce A P - 
-derate Stature : 
of the warmer Parts of Europe, has all its Ele- 
~gance,, with a perennial Root, and larger Growth. 
The earlier Writers have not been acquainted with 
it ; nor does it. ftand afcertained diftingly i in the 
lateft. 
- Morison calls it Blattaria perennis folio ver- 
bofio fore -amplo ‘luteo: perennial Mothmullein 
with a Mullein Leaf, and we large yellow 
Flowers. oe 
Linnaus does not “allinie: the Diftin@ion of 
“Mullein and Mothmullein into two Genera: he 
comprehends the Blattaria under. the Head Ver- 
bafcum, but he has not charatterifed ‘this Species. 
It will be proper to call it Verba/cum fohis latis 
glabris amplexicaulibus perenne: perennial Mullein 
with broad » {mooth - ‘Leaves sri dai the 
Seileoo bas. soa 
*SeE iis DiftinGtion of the Blattaria and Verbafcum 
was always flightly founded, and ill underftood. 
The Roman Puiny, calls Blattaria a Plant, 
which «had: great Refirhiblatice of Mullein, but 
_ had fmoother- Leaves; whence’ it appears that he 
probably’ meant by Blattaria, what. we call Bs ack 
Numb. XLIX. 
EW ‘Englifh Plants ‘exceed the common _ 
- Mothmullein, an annual, ‘and but of nio-- 
this, which is a Native | 
Flowers and Curtous Plants. now in their Parfistion: 
: et GOLDEN. PERENNIAL “MOTHMULLEIN, 
“Millets : Ray, a preferves the Diftin@ion, A . 
gives the Roundnefs of the Seed-veffel as the Cha- ¥e0 
‘racter; but that is uncertain. 
common Mullein are fo diftinguifhed, but the 
The Blattaria and 
Difference i in thofe is flight, and in fome of the : 
others it is entirely loft. : 
_ The Gardener will beft underftand the Diftinc- 
tion in the Size of the Flowers, thofe of the - 
Mothmulleins being larger than thofe of’ the Mul- 
leins; and in this refpe&t not, one of the Plants | 
fo called can be compared with the prefent. | 
The Root is long, thick, brown, and penetrating 
very deep, and hung with many Fibres. 7 
The firft Leaves are a Foot and | half long, 
moderately broad; of a deep green, and wayed 
and indented about the Edges. 
The Stalk is round, firm, upright, and fix 
Foot high: it is rib’d; of a pale green, often 
{tained ‘with purple, and iS. thick covered with 
Leaves: eerie ae : 
Thefe are oblong and large 5 ‘broad at the Bafe, 
narrower all the way to the Point, ‘irregularly 
| indented at the Edges, and of a deep green; with 
broad ‘pale Veins; fmooth on the upper and 
under Side, and rifing upwards in an acute 
Angle. ears oe 
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