mullein

• And there is the mullein, too, with very stiff hairs Now, what are these hairs for? —  St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9
• M_, flower of moth-mullein, Verbascum (_Scrophularineæ N_, flower of toad-flax, Linaria (_Scrophularineæ_), × 1. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• There are generally four stamens, two long and two short, as in the labiates, but in the mullein (_Verbascum_) (Fig. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• Many have large, showy flowers, as in the cultivated foxglove (_Digitalis_), and the native species of Gerardia_, mullein, Mimulus_, etc., while a few like the figwort, Scrophularia (Fig. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• "The most extraordinary book of the age" is published every week; "genius" springs up like mullein, wherever the soil is thin enough; the yearly catch of "weird imagination," "thrilling pathos," "splendid description," and "sublime imagery" does not fall short of an ordinary mackerel-crop; and "profound originality" is so plenty that one not in the secret would be apt to take it for commonplace. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860

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