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On the Genus ATROPA ; óy Jonn Miers, Esa., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 
ATROPA. 
On a former occasion I have alluded to the marked feature of the 
imbricate zstivation of the corolla in this genus, as a character quite in- 
compatible with its position among the Solanacee, and have therefore 
Mis it along with several others in a distinct tribe, Atropee, 
indistinetly defined, and its CR so little understood, that it has served 
as a receptacle for many heterogeneous plants belonging to Solanaceae, 
so that out of the numerous species placed in it by various authors, T 
can find only one remaining, the well-known Atropa belladonna. 
have, however, met with, cultivated in our gardens, another species 
which, although indicated, has never before been fully described. In 
order to remove the confusion hitherto existing in this genus, I have 
collected together all the plants placed by botanists in 4¢ropa, with a re- 
ference to the several genera to which they are now properly referrible. 
The following is offered as a more correct outline of the features of the 
genus, the details of which, with some few exceptions, are very faith- 
fully delineated by Nees v. Esenb. Gen. Pl. Fl. Germ. (Gamopet. 
vol. i.) in his analysis of Atropa belladonna. 
ATROPA, (Char. emend.)—Calyz urceolato-campanulatus, 5-partitus, 
laciniis duplo-triplove tubo brevissimo longioribus, acutis, erectis, 
augescens, demum stellato-patens. Corolla infundibuliformi-campanu- 
lata, limbo brevi, 5-partito, laciniis oblongis, obtusis, zstivatione 
imbricatis. Stamina 5, æqualia, inclusa ; filamenta imo coroll: adnata, 
basi crassiuscula, fornicata, lanata, superne subulata, apice subito in- 
flexa ; anthere ovate, deflexze, 2-lobz, lobis parallelis, sine connec- 
tivo medio nexis. Ovarium ovatum, conicum, disco carnoso 4-lobo 
weg 2-loculare, placentis cum dissepimento cruciformibus mox 
incrassatis, ubique ovuligeris. Sfy/us filiformis, apice inflexus, 
et Vitus Stigma subglobosum, labiis 2 transversis compressis 
glandulosis signatum. Bacca globosa, 2-sulcata, 2-locularis, calyce 
patente suffulta. Semina plurima in pulpam nidulantia, reniformi- 
ovata, subcompressa, testa favoso-scrobiculata, hilo sublaterali. 
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