COMMON BLUE-BIRD. 
ITS 
t, is rather short and wide, its length being 71 inches, its breadth in the 
duodenal portion 21 twelfths, contracting to 2 twelfths ; the rectum of the 
same width at first, but enlarging into an oblong cloaca, i , 5 twelfths wide ; 
the cceca, h , 2 twelfths long, £ twelfth broad, cylindrical, 1 inch 1 twelfth 
distant from the extremity. Elongated salivary glands. 
The trachea is 1 inch 10 twelfths long, moderately flattened, its rings 65, 
firm, with 2 additional half rings. There are four pairs of inferior laryngeal 
muscles ; the bronchi of about 15 half rings. 
The Great Mullein. 
Verbascum Thapsus, Willd., Sp. PI., vol. i. p. 1001. Pursch, Flor. Amer., vol. i. p. 
142. — Smith , Engl. Flor., vol. i. p. 512. — Pentandria Monogynia, Linn . — 
Solanea:, Juss. 
This plant, which is well known in Europe, is equally so in America ; but 
whether it has been accidentally or otherwise introduced into the latter 
country, I cannot say. At present there is hardly an old field or abandoned 
piece of ground on the borders of the roads that is not overgrown with it. 
In the Middle and Southern Districts, it frequently attains a height of five 
or six feet. The flowers are used in infusion for catarrhs, and a decoction of 
the leaves is employed in chronic rheumatism. 
