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sum hamato-arcuatus^ radicula paulo incurvata, ad angulum 

 basalem spectante, cotyledonibus hemicyclicis semiteretibus 

 sequilonga. — Herba in Europm orieiitalis alpinis indigeiiaj gla- 

 berrima, rsidico per ennant e ; folia gemina^ altero minoriy elliptica, 

 acuta y in petiolum longum attenuata ; flores solitariiy longe pe- 

 dunculatij penduli^ inter foliorum paria orti; corolla lu7^ide 

 aurantiacO'purpurea. 



1. Scopolia carnoliacay Jacq. Observ. i. 33. tab, 20. Scopolina 

 atropoides^ Schult. JEstr. FL i. 844- Hyoscyamus Scopolia, 

 Linn. Mant. pi. 46 ; St. Hil FL Fr. 20. tab, 6 ; Bot. Mag. 

 tab, 126; Nees^ Gen. PL Germ, cum iconej — foliis oblongis, 

 acuminatis^ basi attenuatis et in petiolum longum crassum de- 

 currentibus, inferioribus alteruis^ caulinis geminis^rarius 3-uis, 

 flore solitario pendulo- In sylvis lUyrise et Hungarise. 



Anisodus. 



In noticing this genus {huj. ojO(?r. vol.i.p. 166)^ I had arranged it 

 near Airopa, on account of the analogy offered by the structure 

 of the corolla in that genus, and of the apparently fleshy peri- 

 carpial covering of its immature fruit; since that period I have 

 had an opportunity of examining its ripened capsule, and now 

 find that it must take its place among the HyoscyamecEy after 

 Thinogeton, and thus bordering upon Atropa. The ovarium is 

 small, conical, and half invested below by a very thick fleshy 

 yellow disc ; its apical gland, in the young state, is not so strongly 

 developed as in HtjoscyamuSy though it is distinctly visible, and 

 may be considered, in like manner, as an extension of the base 

 of the style : as the process of fructification advances, the basal 

 disc disappears, and the lower portion of the ovarium takes a 

 rapid increment both in length and diameter, and the pcricarpial 

 covering becomes more and more attenuated, until at length it 

 forms a thin and brittle shell, composed of a loosely cohenng cpi- 



integument 



lign 



Hyoscyamus 



coriaceous, somewhat 4-lobed, and bui-sts away from the lower 

 shell by a ruptured circumscissile line of dehiscence, as m the 

 genus last mentioned. The border of the corolla is not plicate, 

 as stated by Endlicher and other authors, but on the contrary, 

 distinctly imbricate in aestivation. The following may be con- 

 sidered as an outline of its generic features. 



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Anisodus, Link. (Char, reform.)— Ca/y a; magnus, tubulosus, 

 infra medium subinflatus, 10-costatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus 

 brevibus, insqualibus, obtusis, persistens, in fructu non au- 



