expansion. Stamens varying in proportion in different
flowers but always unequal, one being very short, 2 about
the length of the corolla, and the remaining 2 generally
extending much beyond it. The whole herb is rough with
white bristly hairs, some of which arise from exceedingly
minute and inconspicuous tubercles resembling those of E.
vulgare, but the pubescence is altogether far less rigid than
in any variety of that plant, and the more slender, diffuse
habit of the present renders it impossible to confound them.
Flowers in August.
E. italicum, tab. 2081, is not a native of the British
Islands, and the error of recording it as such originated
doubtless in a white-flowered variety of E. vulgare being
occasionally met with, and which was for a long time supposed
to be identical with the Jersey plant.
