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oblique. Pedicels lengthened in fruit until some of them arc as 
long as or twice as long as the calyx, while others remain extremely 
short. Calyx-segments very short, strapshapcd-lauceolate. Cap- 
sule 5 inch long, longer than the calyx-segments, thinly clothed 
with stellate hairs. 
Remarkable for the white floccose stellate down, which is easily 
rubbed off, and gives the plant a mouldy appearance. 
Hoary Mullein. 
French, Molene Pulverulente. 
SPECIES III. -VERB AS CUM LYCHNITIS. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXXXIX. 
Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCXLVIIL 
Bi/ht, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2893. 
Stem angular, paniculately branched, with the branches erect. 
Radical leaves subrhomboidal-oblanceolate or oval, gradually con- 
tracted into short petioles, sub-obtuse or acute ; lower stem-leaves 
similar ; the others oval or elliptical, sessile, not decurrent, acute 
or acuminate, irregularly crenate or repand - crenate. Flowers 
shortly stalked, in fascicles arranged in a slightly-interrupted 
raceme at the extremity of the stem and branches, the whole form- 
ing a narrow pyramidal panicle. Longest pedicels about twice as 
long as the calyx at the time of flowering. Limb of the corolla 
flat, four or five times as long as the tube. Stamens all with the 
filaments clothed with white woolly hairs and with uniform reni- 
form transverse anthers. Stigma capitate. Capsule small, twice as 
long as the small calyx-segments. Plant with the leaves sub- 
glabrous above, sprinkled, especially on the veins, with minute 
stellate hairs, and more thickly clothed with similar hairs beneath ; 
pedicels and calyx-segments densely clothed with similar hairs. 
In waste places, open woods, borders of fields, and roadsides. 
Local. In the counties of Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Suffolk, 
Stafford, Denbigh, and also reported from several other counties, but 
as doubtfully native. In Scotland, about the rocks of Stirling and 
Dunbarton Castles, but no doubt introduced. 
England, [Scotland.] Biennial. Summer. 
Stem stout, 18 inches to 4 feet high, with elevated lines decur- 
rent from the midribs of the leaves, clothed with floccose very 
minute stellate down. Radical leaves large, frequently a foot long ; 
stem-leaves smaller, and, as well as the radical ones, green above, 
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