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LXII. SCROPHULARIACEiE, 
[ Verbascum. 
Anthers sagittate, 2-celled. Stigma dilated. Caps membra- 
nous, compressed, 2-celled, 2-valved, loculicidal. — Name given 
in honour of Dr. Humphrey Sibthorpe, the successor of Dillenius 
in the botanical chair at Oxford. (As here defined, the genus 
includes Disandru Linn.) 
1. S. Europce'a L. ( creeping S., or Cornish AT.) ; hairy, 
leaves 7 — !)-lobed, pedicels very short, flowers minute 5-cleft, 
stamens 4, capsules broad retuse. E. B. t. 649. 
Moist shady places, in Devonshire, Cornwall, and the Scilly Isles. 
By the stream running from Waldron Down, Sussex ; near Nettle- 
combe, Somerset. Jersey and Guernsey. At Connor hill near Dingle; 
and near Brandon, Ireland. Side of Crinan canal, Argyleshire. 
7, 8. — A graceful little plant, hairy, with creeping filiform stems , and 
alternate orbicular-reniform broadly crenate leaves. Flowers axillary, 
solitary, on short stalks ; the two lowermost segments of the corolla 
yellowish, the three upper broader and pink. 
C. Stamens 5. (Gen. 13.) 
13. Verbascum Linn. Mullein. 
Cal. 5-partite. Cor. rotate, irregular. Siam. 5, the three 
upper or all of them hairy. Caps, of 2 cells and 2 valves, 
septicidal. — Name altered from Barbascum, from barba, a. beard; 
in allusion to the shaggy nature of its foliage. 
* Anthers of the longer glabrous stamens more or less decurrent on one 
side of the filaments. liuceme spiked, dense, nearly sessile. Leaves 
decurrent, woolly. 
1. V. Thdpsus L. ( great M.) ; stem simple, leaves all de- 
current woolly on both sides, spike of flowers very dense, 
pedicels shorter than the calyx, corolla concave in the throat 
about twice as long as the calyx, 2 stamens longer glabrous 
their anthers very shortly decurrent. E. B. t. 549. 
Banks and waste ground, in a light sandy, gravelly, or chalky 
soil. (J. 6 — 8. — Stem nearly simple, 4 — 5 feet high, angular, winged. 
Leaves thick, excessively woolly, ovate or oblong. Spike long, cylin- 
drical. Flowers handsome, golden-yellow ; when dried in the sun, 
giving out a fatty matter used in Alsace as a cataplasm in h&'mor- 
rhoidal complaints. Three of the stamens with white woolly hairs ; 
the two longer ones glabrous. 
2. V. * thapsif urine Schrad. ( Thapsus-like Mi) ; stem simple, 
leaves decurrent woolly on both sides, raceme spiked dense, 
2 stamens longer glabrous their anthers much decurrent, corolla 
flat about 4 times as long as the calyx. V. thapsoides Huds. ? 
V. Thapsus Mey.: Koch. 
Everywhere in Kent; Huds. <? . 7, 8. — The foreign plant is 
closely allied to the last, but readily distinguished by the corolla and 
anthers of the long stamens. As to the British species it rests wholly 
