scuornuLARiACE.i:. 100 
has also gathered it at Hastings, and it lias been found by myself 
at Northfleet, Kent. 
HYOSCYAMUS ALBUS. Lirm. 
Found on ballast-hills at Sunderland by Mr. llobson. 
ORDER L— SOROPHULARIACE^I. 
Herbs, more rarely shrubs, with alternate, opposite, or ver- 
ticillate leaves and no stipules. Flowers perfect, more or less 
irregular, commonly in racemes. Calyx free from the ovary, 
persistent, generally 5- or -1-tootlicd. Corolla hypogynous, mono- 
pctalous, generally 2-lipped, and then either ringent or per- 
sonate, more rarely rotate or bellshaped or tubular ; limb 5- or 
more rarely 4-lobed, the lobes commonly unequally united in 
various modes, always imbricated in aestivation. Stamens inserted 
in the tube of the corolla, generally 4, didynamous, sometimes 
with a rudimentary fifth stamen without an anther, sometimes 
only 2, rarely 5 with the 2 anterior ones longer than the other 3. 
Ovary 2-celled, the cells anterior and posterior, with the placenta 
in the centre. Style simple, stigma generally more or less dis- 
tinctly 2-lobed, the lobes anterior and posterior ; ovules generally 
numerous in each cell. Fruit a capsule, opening by 2, 3, or 4 
valves or by pores. Seeds generally numerous — in the few cases 
where they are solitary, loose within the cells of the capsule. 
Embryo minute, straight or slightly curved, in the midst of 
copious albumen. 
Tribe I.— VERBASCEiE. 
Corolla rotate, nearly regular, upper lip covered by the others in 
bud. Stamens 5 (or 4 and didynamous), declinate. Inflorescence 
usually simple, indefinite. Leaves all alternate. 
GENUS I.—V ERBASCUM. Linn. 
Calyx 5-partite or 5-cleft. Corolla rotate, with scarcely any 
tube ; limb 5-partite, with the segments broad, rounded, flat or 
slightly concave. Stamens 5 ; filaments, or at least the 3 upper 
ones, woolly ; anthers transverse, with the lobes coniluent so as to 
