116 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
as the large triangular - lanceolate calyx - segments. Plant sub- 
glabrous ; the leaves and stem glandular-puberulent ; the rachis, 
pedicels, bracts, calyx-segments, ovary, and base of style, clothed 
with short gland-tipped hairs. 
By roadsides and in waste places. Rare, and probably native 
only in Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset ; though it occurs in many 
other counties as far North as Denbigh, Salop, Stafford, and 
Lincoln. 
England. Biennial or annual. Summer and Autumn. 
Stem 2 to 5 feet high, slightly angular. P^oot-leaves, including 
the indistinct petiole, 3 inches to 1 foot long ; stem-leaves con- 
siderably smaller, all of them varying very much in the incision 
of the margins. Raceme long, tbe bracts ovate or lanceolate, 
acuminate. Pedicels usually 2 to 6 together or more rarely solitary. 
Flowers bright-yellow, 1 to 1^ inch across. Capsule the size of a 
pea, nearly globular. Plant green, clothed with distant very short 
glandular hairs ; the whole of the inflorescence with numerous 
gland-tipped hairs. 
Large-jlowered Mullein. 
SPECIES (?) VI— VERB ASCUM BLATTARIA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXLII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLIII. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 56. 
Stem erect, simple or more rarely branched. Radical leaves 
oblanceolate, insensibly attenuated into short petioles ; lower leaves 
attenuated at the base and sub-petiolate ; intermediate ones oblong- 
acute, sessile, semi-amplexicaul ; uppermost ovate or lanceolate, 
cordate, semi-amplexicaul and not sensibly decurrent on the stem ; 
all crenate or doubly dentate ; the lowest sometimes slightly pin- 
natifid towards the base. Mowers long-stalked, always solitary, in 
a lax raceme at the extremity of the stem and also of the branches 
when the latter are present. Pedicels ascending-spreading, longer 
than the calyx at the time of flowering, and twice as long as the 
capsule in fruit. Limb of the corolla flat, five or six times as long- 
as i lie tube. Stamens with all the filaments clothed with woolly 
hairs, the 3 upper with reniform transverse anthers, the 2 lower 
with fewer hairs and with oblong reniform anthers attached 
obliquely. Capsule large, sub-globular, half as long again as the 
large strapshaped calyx-segments. Plant glabrous, except the 
