2 OBSERVATIONS on 



The leaves furrounding the ftalk at their 

 bafe, ftand irregularly. They are large, foft, 

 and downy, pointed at the ends, and very 

 deeply indented at the edges. Their colour 

 is a greyifh green, and they have a virofe, 

 difagreeable fmell. 



The flowers are monopetalous. They are 

 numerous, fingular, divided into five obtufe 

 fegments, and when accurately examined, 

 are not without beauty, although they have 

 an unpleafant appearance on the plant : they 

 are large, of a dirty yellowifh colour, reticu- 

 lated with violet-coloured veins. 



The feed-veffels follow one after every 

 flower : they are large, and contain a great 

 quantity of feeds : of a brown, rough, and 

 irregular figure. 



This is the only fpecies of henbane that is 

 a native of Britain. It is common by road- 

 fides and amongft rubbifh, and flowers in 

 June. 



Dr. Withering obferves, that this plant is 

 Tefufed by horfes, cows, flieep, and fwine *. 



* Arrangement of Britifh Vegetables, vol. i. p. 119. 



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