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Salmon'/ ‘Herbal. Lib. I. 
CHAP. DVIII. 
Of MULLEIN Baftard or Bafe. 
I. 'T' HE Names. It is called in Greek , fVoy.@- 
X fo6®- - in Latine , Verbafcum not hum, Ver- 
bafcum vile , Tap/us notbus , Tapfus vilis : and in 
Englifh , Safe Mullein , Baftard Mullein. 
II. The Kinds. There are three Kinds of this 
Plant, viz. i. Verbafcum nigrum vulgare , Verbaf 
cum nigrum , Verbajcum nothum vulgare , Our Com- 
mon Bafe or Ballard Mullein, or Common Black 
Mullein. 2. Verbafcum nigrum odor at urn, Tapfus 
notbus odoratus, Sweet Bafe Mullein, or Sweet 
Black Mullein. 5. Verbafcum notbum Laciniatum , 
Verbafcum aliud Mattbioli , Verbafcum Erucafolium 
Libelij, Verbafcum Laciniatum Mattbioli , Verbaf- 
cum folio Papaveris ccrnutiCamerarij , Jagged Mul- 
lein, or Jagged Bafe or Baftard Mullein. To thefe 
we may add, 4. » JEthiopis , Verbafcum 
JEthiopium , Verbafcum Laciniatum, Cf mn Lacinia- 
tum, Sclarea JEthiopica , Ethiopian Mullen Jagged 
and not J igged * which P arkinfon will have to l>e 
a Kind of C/ary : but we thougnt it very proper to 
be enumerated among the Baftard or Bafe Kinds of 
Mulleins , it being none of the true Kinds in the 
former Chapter, nor yet of the Moth Mulleins in 
the lollowing Chapter, and withall feeming to 
be much more a Mullein than a Clary. 
The Defcriptions ♦ 
III. The frit, or Our Common Bafe or Baftard 
Mullein, or Common Black Mullein. Its Root is 
pretty large , long , and Branched and Fibrous, which 
MULLEIN Bale or Baftard Common ^ 
0 R, 
MULLEIN Black Common. 
perifhes after Seed time. Its Leaves are nothing 
woolly or Hairy , but of a dark green color , fome- 
what large , longer pointed , and a little dented about 
the edges. The Stalk or Stalki rife up almoft as 
high as the Common Mullein, and fome times parted 
at the topsjnto a few Branches , bearing long fpiky 
Heads of Gold yellow Flowers , and in fome tending 
to purple, like the other , with fome Threads in the 
middle, which are reddifh in fome and purplifh in 
others, with Seed following them like to the true 
Kinds in the former Chapter. The whole Plant has 
a fironger fmell than that in the White Kinds. 
IV. The fecend , or Sweet Bafe Mullein, or 
Sweet Black Mullein. Its root is fomething great 
and long, with fever al Fibres adjoining to it, which 
perijhes not , but abides many Tears. It has four or 
five Leaves lying upon the Ground fomewhat long and 
broad, ending in a long point , fomewhat hard , and 
MULLEIN Bafe or Baftard Sweety 
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MULLEIN Black Sweet. 
as it were crumpled, of a dark green color, without 
any manifefl dents or notchings on the edges , but 
only unevenly waved -, from among which rifes up a 
rdund, hard, green Stalk, and fometimes two, about 
three beet high, oftentimes without any Branches , 
and fometimes again divided into two or three-, on 
which grew many yellow Flowers, f mailer and thicker 
fet together, viz. two or three at a place, than in any 
other , and fuelling pretty fweet, which for the moji 
part fall away without giving any Seed and when 
it does bear Seed, it is very J mall, and contained in 
fmall round Heads. 
V. The third , or Jagged Bafe or Baftard Mul- 
lein. Its Root is much like the former-, and it 
has large and long Leaves unevenly cut in on the 
edges, fomewhat like the Leaves of Horned Poppy, 
of a dark green color , and a little hairy withall \ 
The Stalk u fmall and green, but high, andvarioufly 
Branched, bearing f mailer yellow Flowers, and more 
fparfedly fet than in the two former Black forts, 
and having after them Seed much alike. Lobel fays. 
