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HYOSCYAMUS canariensis, 
` Canary Henbane. . 
— А 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord- Soranem. Jussieu gen. 194, 
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SCYAMUS. . tubulosus 5-fidus, pérsistens, Cor. Һурофуһа, 
infundibuliformis, limbo patente obliqué 5-lobo inæquali. Stam. epipetala, 
Stylus unicust stigma capitatum. Caps. supera (bilocularis) ovata, utrinque 
compressa et sulco exarata, apice circumscissa seu operculata. Неге; 
folia floralia sep? geminata; flores solitarii axillares, sep? secundi. Juss. 
Н. ‘canariensis, suffrutescens? foliis inferioribus cordato-ovatis, іпсізде 
angulatis fine integris, obtusis; floralibus ovatis ellipticisve subintegris. 
Perennis? pilosus. Caulis strictus, teres, pilis albis mollissimis divaricatis 
hirsutus, Folia lazè sparsa, divaricata, solitaria, petiolata; pilosa imprimis 
subtiis, pubescentiam canam viridissim? at sublurida translucentia, ex cordatis 
evadentia ovata, lobulis gradatim obsolescentibus; floralia sæpiùs integerrima 
acutula, raró gemina, quorum alterum pauló minus, subcollateralit2r approii- 
matum, nunguam oppositum. — Racemus terminalis, fleruoso-erectus, foliosta, 
remotits multiflorus, alternus, distichus: flores axilares, solitaris, erecti, 
singulatim explicandi, brevissim& pedicellati. Cal. Aerbaceus, lurido-virens, 
fubuloso-campanulatus, molli-pilosus, s із 5. lalis, patentibus, muticis, 
4-ріо brevioribus. tubo. Cor. è minoribus, subcaduca, fugaz, sframineb- 
dutestens fauce violaced, рағдт inaequalis, altior latiorgue. calyce; limbo 
rotato-patente laciniis brevibus, obversts, transvers? latioribus, summis, 2 ma- 
Joribus. Stam. inclusa, declinata, Germ. post базат corollam ex operculo 
suo viridissimo umbontto-rotundo іп оте tubi calycini apparens. 
An unrecorded native of the Canary Islands; recently 
introduced by Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne. The 
seed was a present from Dr. Schmidt, the learned natu- 
ralist, who, with more of his associates, has just fallen 
в victim to the fatigues of the expedition intended to ex- 
plore the Niger. 
We can scarcely yet venture to speak of the size the 
plant may acquire, nor of its duration. We believe it 
to be suffrutescent and perennial, and that it will never 
exceed a foot and a half in height. It does not seem іп- 
clined to produce many branches. The stem is upright, 
round; covered with a long dense pubescence of very soft 
white straight patent hair. Leaves of a deep lurid green, 
loosely scattered, divaricate, petioled, cordate and ovate, 
