Ko. 52. HYOSczAmtrs. 255 



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HYOSCIAMUS NIGER 



English Name— BLACK HENBANE. 

 French Name — Jusquiame noire. 



German Name — -Schwarz Bilsenkraut. 

 Officinal Name — Hyosciamus. 



Vulgar Names — Henbane, Poison-Tobacco, 

 Stinking Nightshade, &c. 



Authorities — Lin. Pursh, Eaton, Torrey, Cullen, 

 Murray, Fothergill, Kinglake, Withering, Schoepf, 

 Thacher, Duncan, Coxe, and all Dispens. Eberle, 

 A. Ives, Woodville fig. 52, Bigelow fig. 17 and seq. 



Genus Hyosciamus — Calix persistent, urceolate, 

 with five unequal teeth. Corolla funneTshaped, with 

 five unequal lobes. Stamina five, unequal. Pistil 

 oval, stile filiform declinate, stigma obtuse. Capsule 

 two celled, many seeded, operculate. 



Species H.niger — Viscid hairy, leaves clasping, 

 lower oval oblong, acute, sinuate or undulate : flowers 

 unilateral, sessile, calix with sharp teeth, corolla reti- 

 culate, with rounded lobes. 



DESCRIPTION — Root biennial, fusiform, whitish. 

 The whole plant glaucous, hairy, glutinous, lurid, and 

 fetid. Stem one or two feet high, stiflf, round, branch- 

 ed. Radical or first year leaves spread on the ground, 

 oval or oblong, undulate, contorted, acute, sessile, 



sinuated hy large acute unequal teeth, nerve thick and 



