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acute lobes, and pointed ; the upper ones general- 
ly entire. 
The flowers form a revolute, one sided spike 
at the end of the stem or branch, leaving, as they 
fall off, a straight row of capsules. The calyx has 
five short acute segments. ‘The corolla is funnel 
shaped, irregular, with five spreading, obtuse seg- 
ments, of a pale yellow or straw colour, with a 
beautiful net work of purple veins. Stamens in- 
serted in the tube of the corolla, with large oblong 
anthers. Style slender, longer than the stamens, 
declined, with an obtuse stigma. Capsule two 
celled, roundish, covered with a lid, and invested 
with the persistent calyx, the segments of which 
extend beyond the calyx, and become rigid and 
prickly. The seeds are numerous, small, unequal, 
brownish, and are mois ges the Been! 
separation of the lid, . 
From such chemical seo enet as I have- 
made with the dried leaves of the Hyoseyamus, 
I am inclined to believe, that their chief soluble 
portion is a variety of extractive matter. The 
watery and alcoholic solutions do not disturb each 
other, and the usual tests of tannin produce in-— 
considerable, or no alteration in either. Of yari- 
ous metallic salts which affected the solutions, the 
