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 Hyoscyamus Physaloides. Purple- 

 Flowered Henbane. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. infundibuliformis obtufa. Stam. inclinata. Cap/, oper- 

 culata, 2-locularis. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



HYOSCYAMUS phyfaloides ; foliis ovatis integerrimis caly- 

 cibus inflatis fubglobofis. Sp. Plant. 258. 

 Willd. 1012. Reich. 501. Hort. Up/ah 44- 

 Arnan. Acad. v. 7. p. 436. /. 6. ./. 1. Hort. 

 Kew. 1. p. 241. Mart. Mill. Dift. n. 7. 

 Me er burgh Icones, /, 5. 



We learn from Hortus Kewenfis, that this plant was intro- 

 duced in the year 1777, by Meffrs. Gordon and Gruffer; 

 it is however (till very rare ; and, except the very indifferent 

 ones above referred to, we believe there is no figure of it 

 extant. 



A native of Siberia, where an infufion of it, taken in- 

 ternally, is fuppofed to have the very ufeful virtue of making 

 a culprit confefs all the crimes he may have perpetrated. 



Our drawing was taken from a plant at Mr. Salisbury s 

 Botanic Garden at Brompton. 



Flowers in April or May. 



