moth mullein
[See quot. 1597.]
The plant Verbascum Blattaria.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. lxxxii. 122 It may be called in English Purple, or Mothe Mulleyn. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. cclviii. 634 Concerning the plants comprehended vnder the titles of Blattaria, or Moth Mulleins, I finde nothing written of them, sauing that mothes, butterflies, and all manner of smaller flies and bats, do resort vnto the place wheresoeuer these herbes be laide or strowed. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 538 The Hearbe called Purple, or Moth-mullein. 1778 R. Weston Gard. Calendar (ed. 2) 303 Moth Mullein. Yellow Moth Mullein. White. 1838 M. Howitt Woodpecker ii, The moth-mullein..with its pale yellow flowers. |
| attrib. 1731 Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Verbascum, Mullein with a dark Moth-Mullein Leaf. |