100 ENGLISH BOTATJT. 
the bottom of the tube of the corolla, included or exserted ; fila- 
ments elongated ; anthers not connivent, opening by longitudinal 
slits. Trait a membranous capsule, smooth, 2-celled, dehiscing cir- 
cumscissily by a firm shallow lid. Seeds very numerous, uniform. 
Herbs, often viscous, and with a powerful heavy odour. Leaves 
alternate, toothed or angulated. Flowers in unilateral scorpioid 
racemes, yellow or cchreous, sometimes veined with purple. 
The name of tins genus of plants comes from the two Greek words, voq (no?), a 
sow, and Kvapog (kuamos), a bean. 
SPECIES I.— II YOSCTAIUS NIGEE. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXXXVL 
i:< ich. Tc. FI. Germ, et Nelv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCXXIII. Figs. 2, 3. 
Radical leaves in a rosette, stalked, rhomboidal-ovate, sinuate- 
dentate ; stem-leaves and bracts sessile, and more or less amplex- 
icaul, oblong, with large spreading teeth. Flowers sub-sessile in 
the axils of the upper leaves or bracts, in a 2-ranked unilateral 
scorpioid raceme. Corolla nearly regular. Capsule swollen at the 
base; calyx-tube in fruit constricted about the middle. 
Var. a, genulnus. 
Corolla yellowish-white, veined with dark-purple with a purple 
eye. 
Var. 3, pallidus. 
II. pallidus, Kite, in /Filid. Enum. Hort. Berol. Vol. I. p. 228. 
Flowers wholly pale-yellow, without purple lines. 
On sandy ground, and dry waste places, pastures, and by road- 
sides. Locally abundant, and generally distributed over England ; 
rare in Scot land, and not attaining the extreme North of that 
country. Var. 3 rare. Esher, Surrey (Mr. II. C. Watson). I once 
found a specimen near Portobello, Edinburgh. Smith also mentions 
that il has occurred at Fincham, in Norfolk. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or Annual. 
Summer and Autumn. 
Radical leaves very large, soft, flaccid, spreading, on conspi- 
cuous stalks ; t ho lamina sometimes (> or 8 inches long, or even 
more ; stem-leaves smaller, sessile, and more or less clasping, with 
large projecting teeth. Flowers numerous, crowded while in flower, 
but becoming separated in fruit, so as to form a raceme like that 
