(2804. ). 
HyoscyAMUS NIGER. 8. ANNUA. ANNUAL 
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Class and Order. 
PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. infundibuliformis, obtusa. Stamina inclinata. Caps. 
operculata, bilocularis. 3 aviict 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Hyoscyamus niger ; foliis amplexicaulibus sinuatis, floribus 
sessilibus. Sp. Pl. 257.—ed.Willd. 1. p. 1010. Sm. 
Flor. Brit. 1. p.254. Engl. Bot. t. 591. Woodv. Med. 
Bot. 1. t.52. Pollich Pal. 1. p. 223. Svensk. Bot.21. 
Hyoscyamus vulgaris et niger. Bauh. Pin. 169. 
(a.) radice bienni. 
(8.) radice constanter annua. 
a 
This plant has been cultivated in gardens both here and 
on the continent, as the reticulatus; but is certainly not 
the Syrian plant described by Cxustus in his Stirpes panno- 
nice, under the name of Hyoscyamus peregrinus, the seeds 
of which were communicated to him by Bernarp. Paxup. 
Frisivs, on his return from his travels in Egypt and Syria, 
by the name of Benze, which is the true reticulatus of 
INNZUS. 3 2 
Our plant appears to us not to be specifically different 
from the common Henbane ; but Mr. Anperson of the 
Chelsea garden thinks it certainly is; observing, that it is 
Constantly annual, while the former, even under cultivation, 
'S as constantly biennial. But Sir James E. Surru describes 
Yoscyamus mger as having an annual root; so that we 
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