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filaments all with white hairs. — E. B. 58.— Fl. on short stalks, 
small, numerous, cream-coloured. — Road-sides and waste places, 
preferring chalk. B. VII. VIII. White Mullein. E. 
4. V.floccosum (W. and K.) ; /. obscurely crenate clothed with 
mealy deciduous wool on both sides, lower 1. oblong-elliptical at- 
tenuated into a stalk, upper 1. sessile acuminate, st. terete panicled 
above with patent branches, stam. nearly equal scarlet with white 
hairs. — V. puherulentum Sm. — E. B. 487. — Fl. on very short 
stalks which, as well as the calyx, are densely covered with wool, 
bright yellow. Cal. -teeth often glabrous. — In V. puherulentum 
(Vill.), of which Schreber saw authentic specimens, the stem 1. are 
subsessile ovate-oblong rather acute unequally and doubly ser- 
rate, the upper surface of all the leaves only slightly woolly, the 
wool is not deciduous as in our plant, and the st. and branches 
are angular. — Road-sides in Norf. and Suff. ; and Den of Cullen, 
Scotland. B. VII. Hoary Mullein. E. S. 
ft Flowers yellow, hairs on the filaments purple. 
5. V. nigrum (L.) ; 1. doubly crenate nearly glabrous above 
subpubescent beneath, lower 1. cordate or ovate-oblong with long 
stalks, upper 1. cordate-ovate nearly sessile, st. angular, raceme 
elongated, pedicels twice as long as the calyx, stam. equal with 
purple hairs. — E. B. 59. — Fl. in clusters on a nearly simple long 
spike, small, bright yellow. — /3. tomentosum (Bab.) ; 1. subpubes- 
cent above woolly beneath, fl. smaller. — y. nigro-lychnitis ; lower 
1. ovate-oblong or lanceolate attenuated into a stalk subpubescent 
above downy beneath. — Banks and way-sides, (i. Alderney. 
y. Sussex. P. VII. VIII. Dark Mullein. E. S. 
*** Leaves all decurrent, flowers solitary or in pairs. 
6. V. Blattaria (L.) ; 1. crenate glabrous, lower 1. ovate-oblong 
obtuse sinuate at the base attenuated, upper 1. oblong or sub- 
cordate semiamplexicaule, pedicels solitary nearly twice as long as 
the bract, stam. and anth. unequal. — E. B. 393.— Panicle glan- 
dular pilose. Fl. yellow. Filaments with purple hairs, the 2 
longer hairv only on the inside. — On gravelly banks, rare. B. 
VIII. Moth Mullein. E. 
7. V. virgatum (With.) ; 1. doubly serrate slightly glandular- 
hairy, lower 1. oblong-lanceolate sublyrate lobate-crenate-serrate 
the base attenuated, upper 1. oblong acuminate semiamplexicaule, 
pedicels 1 — 5 together shorter than the bracts, stam. nearly equal. 
— E. B. 550. — Panicle glandular-pilose. Fl. yellow. Filaments 
with purple hairs, 2 rather longer and hairy only within. — On 
gravelly banks, rare. B. VIII. E. I. 
