312 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Verbascum. 
i am indebted to Mr. E. Robson, of Darlington, for this curious hybrid 
plant; the produce of V. Thapsus and nigrum. 
(Var. 3. Another hybrid variety which Mr. Dawson Turner would call 
nigro-lichnitis, he found near Yarmouth, and describes thus: 
“Leaves woolly, and, excepting those of the root, all sessile. Stem about 
four feet high, throwing out numerous flowering branches which are axil¬ 
lary. Flowers in bunches of about a dozen each, resembling entirely 
those of V. nigrum , and all the stamens purple and woolly. It perfects 
no seeds.” E.) 
V. lychni'tis. Leaves wedge-oblong, (denude on the upper surface : 
stem angular, panicled, branched. E.) 
E. Bot. 58—Kniph. 6—Ger. 631. 1— Pet. 62. 4— Fuchs. 847— J. B. iii. 873. 
2— Matth. 1147— Lob. Ohs . 303. 2 —Ger. Em. 775. 3 —Ger. 632. 3— FI. 
Dan. 586. 
Stem seldom more than three feet high. Lower leaves of a pleasant green, 
their upper surface shining. Woodw. ( Stem woolly. Leaves cottony 
underneath, above reticularly veined. Root-leaves attenuating at the base. 
Stem-leaves egg-shaped, sessile, not decurrent. FI. Brit. E.) Flowers in 
terminal and lateral spikes: pale yellow, or cream coloured, (much 
smaller than in the preceding. E.) 
Hoary or White Mullein. Chalky and sandy meadows and pastures, 
and road sides, Kent. Kinver, Staffordshire, near the Rock Houses. 
Stokes. Lane leading from the glass-works to the Clyde, Dumbarton. 
Hopkirk, in Hook. Scot. E.) B. July—Aug. 
(Var. 1. Thapsoides. Leaves decurrent; stem branched.-. E.) 
Fuchs. 846— Dod. 143. 2— Ger. Em. 773. 2 —J. B. iii. 872. 4. 
Ahybrid plant, from the seeds of V. Lychnitis , and the pollen of V. Thapsoides. 
Agerius sent it to J. Bauhine, from whom succeeding authors have copied 
it. Agrees with Lychnitis in its branching stem ; its Jlowers , and also, 
though less so, in the purple hairs of the filaments; and with V. Thap¬ 
soides in size, and its leaves, which run down the stem, though not all the 
way, and which are not so white; in its calyx, which, however, has a 
longer fruit-stalk, though not so long as in V. Lychnitis. It is not a 
distinct species, but rather a variety of V. Lychnitis. Linn. 
(F. Thapsoides. Linn. With. Ed. 4. E.) Chalky and sandy meadows and 
pastures, in Kent. Hudson. 
(V. pulverulen'tum. Leaves egg-oblong, obscurely serrated, pow¬ 
dered on both sides: stem cylindrical, panicled. FI. Brit. 
F. Bot. 487. E.y— J. B. iii. 873. 1. 
Stem four to five feet high. Leaves, lower ones somewhat notched; upper 
ones sometimes embracing the stem, more and more pointed as they 
ascend. Blossom bright yellow. Woodw. ( Stem upright, panicled up¬ 
wards, pyramidal, many-flowered, much branched. All the leaves sessile. 
More branched and the blossoms larger than in F. Lychnitis. Anthers 
red. FI. Brit. E.) Whole plant covered with a meal-like down, (which 
readily mbs off. E.) 
(My eminently scientific friend the Chevalier Correa da S&rra first pointed 
out to Sir J. E. Smith the peculiar irritability of this plant; by which, if 
