CHAP. 73.—PHLOMOS OR VERBASCUM: FIFTEEN REMEDIES.
Verbascum has the name of "phlomos" with the Greeks.
Of this plant there are two principal kinds; the white, [Note] which
is considered to be the male, and the black, [Note] thought to be the
female. There is a third [Note] kind, also, which is only found in
the woods. The leaves of these plants are larger than those of
the cabbage, and have a hairy surface: the stem is upright, and
more than a cubit in height, and the seed black, and never
used. The root is single, and about the thickness of the finger.
The two principal kinds are found growing in champaign localities. The wild verbascum has leaves like those of elelisphacus, [Note]
but of an elongated form; the branches are ligneous.
