Ill ENGLISH BOTANY. 
from being nearly destitute of hairs, hoary beneath, where hairs 
are present ; even the uppermost leaves not amplexicaul ; the inter- 
mediate ones shortly stalked, and the lowest attenuated into petioles 
like the root-leaves. Flowers very numerous, \ inch across, cream- 
white, though on the Continent it is said to vary with yellow flowers. 
Stamens whitish, with white hairs. Pedicels of unequal length in 
the fascicle, as in V. pulverulentum, the longest about twice as long 
as the calyx. Capsule J inch long, ovate-ovoid, clothed with stellate 
down, fully twice as long as the strapshaped calyx-segments. 
White Mullein. 
French, Molene Lychnite. German, Lichtnelhenartiges Wollkraut. 
SPECIES IV.— VERB AS CUM NIGRUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXL. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCXLIX. Fig. 1. 
Stem angular above, simple or rarely branched. Radical 
leaves oblong-ovate or oblong-lanceolate, subcordate at the base, 
on long stalks, subacute, irregularly and coarsely crenate or doubly 
crenatc ; lower stem-leaves similar to the radical ones, but on 
shorter stalks ; intermediate ones very shortly stalked, ovate-acute 
or acuminate, crenate or crenate-scrrate ; upper ones sessile, not 
decurrent, smaller, acuminate. Flowers shortly stalked, in fascicles 
arranged in a long nearly continuous spike-like raceme at the 
extremity of the stem, and also of the branches when these are 
present. Longest pedicels about as long as the calyx at the time 
of flowering. Limb of the corolla flat, five or six times as long 
as the tube. Stamens with all the filaments clothed with purple 
woolly hairs and with uniform sub-reniform transverse anthers. 
Stigma notched at the apex. Capsule rather small, nearly twice 
as long as the small strapshaped calyx-segments. Whole plant 
more or less thickly covered with hairs stellate at the apex, firmly 
attached to the plant, usually felted on the under side of the leaves 
and the pedicels. 
Roadsides and borders of fields and dry pastures in chalky or 
gravelly soils. Rather rare, but generally distributed throughout 
the southern half of England. In the northern counties and in 
Haddingtonshire and Edinburgh it is probably introduced. It is 
probably extinct in the former Scotch locality, as I have searched 
for it repeatedly in vain. 
England, Scotland (?) Perennial or biennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
