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Verbascum.~\ lxii. scrophulariace^e. 
on Hudson’s authority, and Mr. Griffith states that the V. thapsoides 
Huds. has frequently been produced in his garden by the pollen of 
V. Thapsus falling upon the stigma of V. Lychnitis (But. Guide, 
i. p. 169). 
* * Anthers of the longer stamens more or less decurrent on one side of 
the filaments which are hairy on the inside. Flowers solitary, or 2 — 6 
together. Leaves glabrous or glandular-hairy, sessile; upper ones 
semiamplexicaul or slightly decurrent. 
3. V. *Blattdria L. ( Moth M.) ; leaves crenate oblong gla- 
brous, radical ones sinuate, upper ones acuminate, flowers 
solitary stalked remote collected into an elongated branched 
glandular-hairy raceme, pedicels much longer than the calyx. 
E. B. t. 393. 
Banks in a gravelly soil, rare. In several places in Kent, Devon- 
shire, and Cornwall. g . 6 — 10. — Hairs of the filaments purple. 
4. V. * virgatum With. ( large-flowered Primrose-leaved Jl/.) ; 
slightly glandular-hairy except the sometimes glabrous leaves, 
leaves ovato-lanceolate toothed, radical ones sinuato-lyrate, 
pedicels 2 — 6 or rarely solitary mostly shorter than the calyx. 
E. B. t. 550. 
Fields and by road-sides, rare. Torpoint, Cornwall; Plymouth; 
Surrey; Worcester; Lincoln; Wombourne, Staffordshire; Herts; 
Norfolk ; Shropshire ; Hereford ; Wrexham, Denbighshire ; Glamor- 
ganshire. $. 8. — Perhaps, as suggested by Mr. Bentham, a mere 
var. of the last. 
** * Anthers not decurrent on the filaments, which are equal and all woolly. 
Racemes branched, panicled. Leaves woolly or pulverulent especially 
beneath, not decurrent. 
5. V. pulverulentum Vill. ( yellow hoary M.) ; leaves ovate- 
oblong subserrate pulverulento-tomentose on both sides, lower 
ones oblong-elliptical attenuated into a stalk, upper ones ses- 
sile or cordato-amplexicaul, stem terete panicled above with 
spreading branches, filaments all woolly (with white hairs). 
E. B. t. 487. Y. floccosum W. et K. 
Road-sides on a gravelly or chalky soil ; frequent iii Norfolk, 
Suffolk, Surrey, and Hants. Den near Cullen, Scotland, g. 7. 
— Remarkable for the mealv down on the leaves, which is easily 
removed from the surface. Flowers large, handsome. “ If the plant 
be struck suddenly and violently, the expanded corollas will in a short 
time fall off, and the calyx will close over the germen.” ( Sin. ) There 
were doubts at one time about this being the plant of Villars, from 
hybrids being generally preserved under that name, and probably 
sometimes mistaken for it by Villars himself; but, as observed by 
Mr. Bentham, the description of Villars indicates the English plant. 
6. V. Lychnitis L. ( white M . ) ; leaves crenate nearly glabrous 
above woolly and pulverulent beneath, lower ones elliptic-oblong 
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