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VERBASCUM MYCONI. BORAGE-LEAV*^
MULLEIN.
Gfo/Jr tftfJ Order.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Corolla, rotata, fubineequalis. Caff, i -locularis 2-valvis.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
VERBASCUM myconi foliis lanatis radicalibus, fcapo nudo.
Linn. Syjl. Vegetal, ed. 14. Murr. f. 2 20.
Ait. Kew. p. 2 38.
CORTUSA foliis ovatis feffilibus. Linn. Hort. Cliff. 50.
SANICULA alpina, foliis boraginis villofa. Bauh. Pin. 243.
AURICULA urfi myconi. Dalecb. Hift. 837.
AURICULA urfi flore cceruleo folio Boraginis. Blew Beares
Eares with Borage leaves. Park. Parad. f.
2 37- /-. 3-
Moft of the plants of this genus are tall and fhewy ; the
one here figured is however, of very humble growth, its
flowering ftern in the cultivated plant rarely exceeding fix
inches in height j its flowers are proportionably large, of a
blueifh purple colour, and highly ornamental j they make their
appearance in May, and continue fucceflively in bloflbm for
feveral months, hence it becomes a defirable plant to cultivate,
efpecially for the decorating of rock-work ; it is very hardy,
requires a north afpeft in the fummer, and to be carefully
watered in dry weather ; will grow in almoft any foil, and is
ufually propagated by planting its roots in autumn.
Grows fpontaneoufly on the-Pyrenean Alps ; in its wild ftate
it is more dwarfifh than our figure reprefents it, its foliage
more woolly, and enriched with various tints, which the plant
lofes on cultivation ; fuch fpecimens I faw in the pofleflion of
Dr. R. HALIFAX, of Albemarle-Street, who gathered it on
its native Alps.
Was cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in 1731, Ait. Kew. and
molt probably long before that period by PAEKINSON, who
gives a figure and accurate defcription of it in his Parad. terr