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hatus communis^ P. 6o. Thapfus harhaius^ G. 629. 
Great White Mullein, High-taper, Cows Lungwort. 
T'he bottom-leaves are about a fpan long, four 
inches broad, foft, and cover’d with a hoary down : 
The ftalk rifes three or four foot high, and bears, in 
a long, crooked fpike or thyrfe, yellow flowers, ha- 
ving live chives of the fame colour, with reddifh 
fummits. On the borders of fields \ fometimes on 
old walls or ruins. 
2. Verhafcum pulverulentum jiore liiteo parvo^ R. 
287. Mas foliis angtiftiorihus^ floribiis pallidis^ C. 
239. Hoary Mullein. It grows near Norwich^ at 
Bircham^ three miles from Houghton~Hall^ in Nor- 
folk *f. The ftalks are taller than thofe of the for- 
mer, and the flowers much lefs •, they grow in 
clufters on the tops of the ftalks and branches, have 
woolly chives, with Saffron-coloured fummits ; and 
the whole plant is covered with a whitifli duft. 
3. Verhafcum flore albo parvo^ R. 287. Lychnitis^ 
fore alho parvo^ C. 240. Verb. Lychnite Mat thioli^ 
G. E. 775. Mas foliis longiorihus^ P. 60. White- 
flower’d Mullein. I'he flowers are fmall, difpofed 
upon the branches like thofe of the laft, of a white 
colour, and fometimes cut into fix fegments : The 
chives are hairy, of a box colour, and tipp’d with 
with red fummits, 
4. Verhafcum nigrum fore parvo^ apicibus purpu- 
reis^ R. 288. Ntgr. fore rv luteo purpurafcentey 
C. 240. Nigrum y G. 631. Defer, nigrum vulgar Cy 
P. 61. Defer. Sage-leaved Black Mullein. In 
Cambridgejhire. The leaves refemble thofe of Sage, 
but are much larger : The flowers are of a deep 
Saffron-colour, having hairy, purplilhi chives ; The 
ftalks are fmaller than thofe of the former, and clad 
with fewer leaves. 
The leaves are accounted pe£loral, good for coughs, fpittmg 
of blood, and other alFedions of tne bread. They are likewifc 
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