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67. SCROPHTTLAMACE^. 
on botli sides all decurrent, st. simple, spike dense, pedicels 
shorter than the cah-x, cor. rotate, segments oblong blunt, 
filaments woolly 2 longer nearly glabrous, anth. all nearly equal. 
—E. B. 549. V. Schraderi Koch. — St. 4—5 feet high. Cor. about 
twice as long as the calyx. Filaments with white wool, the 2 
glabrous ones about 4 times as long as their slightly decurrent 
anthers.— Waste ground. B. VII. VIII. High-taper. E. S. I. 
[2. V. thapsifor'me (Schr.) ; "1. decurrent crenulate woolly, 
upper ones acuminate, racemes spiked, segments of the cor. im- 
equal obovate, 2 of the anth. oblong." Fries. — Cor. about 4 
times as long as the calyx. " The 2 glabrous filaments scarcely 
twice as long as their greatly decurrent anthers." Koch. — Kent. 
Hudson. Near Ashford, Kent. (JPhytol. n. s. v. 365.) B. VII. 
\m.'] E. 
Leaves not decurrent. Racemes branched, panided. Anth. aU 
reniform, not decurrent. 
t Flowers yellow or whitish ; hairs on the filaments white. 
3. V. Lychmtis (L.) ; I. crenate nearly glabrous above woolly 
and powdery beneath, lower 1. elliptic-oblong wedgeshaped below 
scarcely stalked, upper 1, sessile ovate-acuminate with a rounded 
base, St. angular pauicled above with ascending branches, stam. 
equal, filaments all with white hairs. — E. B. 58. — Height 2 — .3 
feet. Fl. on short stalks, small, many, cream-coloured or rarely 
white. — Eoadsides and waste places. B. VI. — \^II. White 
Mullein. E. 
4. V. pulvmden'ium (V^Q..) ; obscurely crenate clothed t^Tj'iA 
viealy deciduous wool on both sides, lower 1. oblong-elliptic at- 
tenuated into a stalk, upper 1. sessile aciuniuate, st. terete pani- 
cled above with patent oranches, stam. nearly equal scarlet with 
wliite hairs.— -E. B. 487. V.f occosuni W. & N.— Height about 
3 feet. Fl. on very short stalks, which, as well as the caljTc, 
are densely covered Avith wool, bright yellow. Cal. -teeth often 
glabrous. — Roadsides in Norfolk and Suffolk. [Den of Cidlen, 
Scotland.] B. VII. Hoary Midlcin. E. [S.] 
tt Flowers yeUow ; hairs on the filaments purple. 
5. V. nigrum (L.) ; 1. doubly crenate nearly glabrous above 
Bubpubescent 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. 50. — Fl. in clusters on a nearly simple long 
spike, small, bright yellow. — /3. tomcntosum {V>(ih.); 1. subpubes- 
cent above woolly beneath, fl. smaller.— -7. nigro-lychnitis ; lower 
1. ovate-oblong or lanceolate attenuated into a stallt subpubescent 
