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HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 
BLACK HENBANE. 
STNO NTMA, Hyofcyamus. Pharm. Ed'inh. 
vulgaris et niger. 
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Fin, 
169. 
Hyofcyamus 
Hyofcyamu 
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nigei 
Gerard Emac, p, 2,^2>' Hyofcyamus vulgaris. J. Baiih. iii. 627. 
Rail Hijl. p. 711. Synop. p, 274. ' Park. Theat. /. 362. Hyof- 
HaL Stirp, Hclv. n. 580. Stoerck Libel, de Stramonio. 
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amus. 
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Withering, Bot, Arrang, /. 231 
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Clafs Pentatidria. Ord. Monogynla. . Lin. Gen. Plant. 247. 

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EJ. Gen, Ch, Cor, infundibul. obtufa, Stam, inclinata. 
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operculata, 2-locularis. 
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Sp, Ch. 
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H. foliis amplexicaulibus fmuatis, florlbus feffilibus* 
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THE root IS biennial, long, compad, white, and befet v^ith many 
fibres : the ftalk is ered, round, w^oody, branched, and rifes about 
two feet in height : the leaves are 
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cut into irregular lobes or 
pointed fegments, of a fea-green colour, undulated, v^oolly, and at 
their bafes embrace the llem : the fl 
owers are produced in irregular 
clufters at the tops of the branches ; they are funnel-fhaped, confift 
ing of a fhort tube, with an expanded limb, which is divided into 
five obtufe fegments, of an obfcure yellow colour, and beautifully 
painted with many purple veins : the calyx is divided into five fhort 
pointed downy fegments: the five filaments are tapering, downy at 
the bafe, inferted in the tube of the corolla, and furnilhed with large 
oblong anthers : the germen is roundifh : the ftyle flender, longer 
than the fi:amina, and terminated by a blunt fi:igma : the capfule is 
oval, marked with a line on each fide, and divided into two cells, 
which contain many fmall irregular brown feeds. It is a native of 
England, and grows commonly amongft rubbiih, about villages, road 
fides, &c. and flowers in June. 
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