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rachis, pedicels, bracts, calyx-segments, ovary, and the base of the 
style, which arc clothed with rather short gland-tipped hairs. 
By roadsides and in waste places. Rare. Probably wild in the 
South of England and in South Wales, but frequently occurring in 
other places as an escape from cultivation. 
England. Biennial or annual. Summer and Autumn. 
V. Blattaria is probably distinct from V. virgatum only as a 
sub-species. Mr. Benthani and MM. Cosson and Germain con- 
sider them mere varieties. V. Blattaria is usually a smaller and 
more slender plant, with the flowers rather smaller, often pinkish- 
white, though yellow is the normal colour ; the capsule is scarcely 
so large ; the upper leaves less acuminate, and not even slightly 
decurrent as in V. virgatum ; the pedicels are always solitary, more 
slender, longer and more spreading than those of V. virgatum, with 
longer glandular hairs ; the calyx-segments narrower, especially 
towards the base ; and the lower leaves and base of the stem nearly 
destitute of the short glandular puberulence w r hich is present in 
V. virgatum. The raceme of fruit in V. Blattaria is usually longer, 
often occupying two-thirds of the stem. 
Moth Mullein. 
French, JTolcne Blattuire. German, Schabenhraut. 
HYBRID a. 
VERBASCUM THAPSO-LYCHNITIS. Men. & Koch. 
Plate DCCCCXLIII. 
L'eich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXI. 
V. spurium, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. i. p. 511. 
V. Thapsoides, Huds. Fl. Angl. p. 90. 
V. Lychnitis, (1 Thapsi, Sm, Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 309. 
V. Lychnitis, p Thapsoides, With.fd. in Arr. Brit. Fl. ed. vi. Vol. II. p. 341. 
Intermediate between V. Thapsus and V. Lychnitis ; distin- 
guished from V. Thapsus by the stem being paniculately branched 
with erect branches ; the leaves resembling in shape those of 
V. Lychnitis, and although distinctly decurrent, more shortly so 
than in V. Thapsus, green above, thinly sprinkled with stellate 
hairs, and felted beneath, but with minute hairs ; calyx-segments 
smaller ; corolla nearly flat ; flowers shortly stalked. It differs 
from V. Lychnitis in the stem being scarcely angular, the stem- 
It saves, or at least the upper ones, strongly decurrent; the upper 
surface of the leaves more or less thickly sprinkled with stellate hairs, 
which are larger than those oi V. Lvchnitis ; the flowers more 
