N. ORD.—SOLANACE. 126 
GENUS.—HYOSCYAMUS,* TOURN. 
SEX, SYST.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
HYOSCYAMUS. 
HENBANE. 
SYN.—HYOSCYAMUS NIGER, LINN.; H. FLAVUS, FUCHS.; H. PALLIDUS, 
KIT.; H. VULGARIS, RAII.; H. LETHALIS, SALISB.; H. AGROSTIS. 
COM. NAMES.—BLACK HENBANE, HOGBEAN, STINKING NIGHTSHADE, 
POISON TOBACCO; (FR.) JUSQUIAME NOIR; (GER.) BILSENKRAUT. 
A TINCTURE OF THE WHOLE HERB HYOSCYAMUS NIGER, LINN. 
Description——This annual, or biennial, heavy-scented, viscid-pubescent, or 
villous herb, usually attains a growth of from 1 to 2 feet. oof fusiform; stem 
rigid. Leaves oblong, acute, the lower large, spreading upon the ground, sinuate- 
toothed and angled, the upper more or less amplexicaul and partly decurrent, the 
uppermost tending to be entire and bract-like, subtending the flowers. /n/lores- 
cence in secund, scorpioid, leafy spikes; flowers numerous, sessile. Cadyx large, 
tubular-campanulate or urceolate; border 5-cleft, spreading; ¢ecth equal, broadly — 
triangular, acute. Corolla oblique, funnel-form, dull yellowish, strongly reticulated | 
with anastomosing purple veins; /mé spreading, inclined to be unequally 5-lobed 
and plaited ; /odes shallow, rounded, and more or less acute. Stamens 5, declined, 
all perfect, and slightly exserted; f/aments inserted upon the corolla-tube near 
its base and continuing attached for about half their length, where they are also 
hairy; azthers purple, turned upon their backs, and opening by a longitudinal 
chink. S¢y/e filiform; stigma dilated-capitate. Capsule membranaceous, 2-celled, 
enclosed by the persistent calyx, which is now many-costate and reticulate-veiny ; 
dehiscence by an apical circumscissile line, the top falling away like a lid. Seeds 
very numerous, roundish-oval, slightly hollowed upon each side; ¢esfa conspicu- 
ously reticulated ; evedryo much curved, axile ; albumen copious, 
History and Habitat.—Henbane is indigenous to Europe and Western Asia, — 
from whence it was introduced into this country by the English settlers, is the 
seventeenth century. It grows, with us, near dwellings and settlements, aoe Nova 
Scotia and Canada, southward to the environs of New York ) City and Brookiya, 
where it blossoms from June to August. ‘The seeds are notably ee an ee 
hence the plant is often found in localities after having disappeared ae before.+ a 
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for the purpose of repairs, In the following season a distinct jadeseers — aa Sy = : ets es dove ie 
of this drain, although none of them had been observed to grow in the — APB — pasiioe wis 
| produced these plants had probably been buried for more than Bltesn yeas. “a0 °°" 70s 
than fifte 
