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| ATROPA _ MANDRAGORA. oe MANDRAKE. 
SYN on YMA. ras avid da? Pharm. Geoff. iit. 808. Bie 170. 
Alfton. i. 478. Rutty. 306. Bergius. 126. Murray. i. 441. 
Edinb. New Difp, 225. _Mandragora fructu rotundo. Baub. Pin. 
169. Ray. Hift. 668. M. fructu majore. flift.. Oxon, iti. § 31. 
fac. 35% Park. 7 beat. 343 Conf. 
Mandragoras mas. Ger. q fag 
Miller’s Figures, i 1 173: 
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-Pentandria Monogynia yy ee Plant. 249. 
Gen. Ch. Cor. Endoites Stam. diftantia. Bacca globota, 
2-locularis.. “3 Se ie 4 
Sp. Ch. A. acaulis, fi unitlors 
ROOT perennial, large, ja Fa three or ay ae feet et exter- 
nally brown, internally whitifh. Leaves radical, feffile, ovate, entire; 
veined, pointed, waved, fmooth, at firft ere€t, but on attaining their 
full fize refting upon. the ground. There is no ftem., Flowers whitith, 
each ftanding upon a fimple ftalk, or feapus, which rifes from the 
crown of the root. Calyx quinquifid; fegments pointed, perliftent. 
Corolla bell-thaped; tube very. fhort; limb divided into five acute 
{preading fegments. Filaments five, tapering, hairy, inferted at the 
bafe of the corolla, at the top diverging, and furnifhed with erect 
_ yellow antherz. Germen round: ftyle filiform, of the'ler 
filaments, and crowned with a gound ftigma. Fru 
two-celled berry, of an orange colour, SaprIe aay Kiney- 
fhaped feeds. : Sy Be 
Its lowers appear in “March and April. ee 
This plant is a native of the fouthern parts of en itis not a 
ftranger to our Englith gardens, in witeh:! it was sa ep by Turner 
in 1562." 
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