204 ORD. XII. Solanacete, seu Luvtile, 
HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. BLACK HENBANE. . 
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SYNONYMA. Hyoscyamus. Pharm. Edinb. UHyoscyamus . 
vulgaris. et niger. Bauh. Pin. p. 169. Hyoscyamus_ niger. 
Gerard. Emac. p. $53. Hyoscyamus vulgaris. J. Bauh. iii. 627. 
Raii. Hist. p.711. Synop. p. 274, Park. Theat. p. 362. Hyos- 
cyamus. Hal. Stirp. Helv. n. 580, Stoerck Libel. de Stramonio, 
&c. Withering. Bot. Arrang. p. 23}. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant, 247. 
_ Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. infandibul. obtusa. Stam. inclinata. Caps. 
-operculata, 2-locularis. 
Sp. Ch. H. foliis amplexicaulibus sinuatis, floribus sessilibus. 
THE root is biennial, long, compact, white, and beset with many 
fibres: the stalk is erect, round, woody, branched, and rises about’ 
two feet.in height: the leaves are large, cut into irregular lobes or 
pointed segments, of a sea-green colour, undulated, woolly, and at 
their bases embrace the stem: the flowers are produced in irregular 
clusters at the tops of the branches; they are funnel-shaped, consist- 
ing of a short tube, with an expanded limb, which is divided into 
five obtuse segments, of an obscure yellow colour, and beautifully 
painted with many purple veins: the calyx is divided into five short 
pointed downy segments: the five filaments are tapering, downy at 
the base, inserted in the tube of the corolla, and: furnished with 
large oblong anthera: the germen is roundish: the style slender, 
longer than the stamina, and terminated by a blunt stigma: the 
capsule is oval, marked with a line on each side, and divided into 
two cells, which contain many small irregular brown seeds. It is a 
native of England, and grows commonly amongst rubbish, about 
_ villages, road sides, &c. and mower in. : June. 
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