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Stem, About 4 feet high; obfcurely angular; leafy. 
Leaves, Slightly but irregularly ferrated, wrinkled; 
dark green above, paler underneath. Lower 
leaves egg-thaped ; upper leaves i 
Leaf-flalks flelhy ; bordéred. 
Frowers. Numerous, moftly growing from one fi de 
_ of the ftem and hanging down one Gver another. 
Floral-leaves fitting, taper-pointed. The numer- 
ous purple blofioms hanging down, mottled 
within; as wide and nearly half as long as the 
' finger of a common-fized glove, are fufficient 
marks whereby the moft ignorant may diftinguifh 
this from every other Britifh plant; and the 
leaves Sught not tobe epi for ufe ag when 
= plant. is in bloffom.. — 
sibel, a posses see 
Puace. Dry, gravelly or salty foils: patchy on 
eee | ines not cobfétved that any of our cattle eat it, 
The root, the ftem, the leaves, and the flowers have 
_ abitter herbaceous tafte, but I don’t perceive that 
naufeous bitter which has been attributed to it. 
> This plant ranks amongft the LURIDA, one of 
| ‘the Linnean ofders in a natural fyftem. It has for 
congenera, Nicortana, Atro#a, Hyoscvan f ° Si 
BA, picked &e. fo that from — te ledge \ 
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