HENBANE HOP 133 



HENBANE {Hyoscyamus niger) is a plant whose 

 leaves yield hyoscine and hyosciamine, used medicinally, 

 but poisonous in any but small doses. The herb is an- 

 nual or biennial, usually found growing wild, but offered 

 by some seedsmen. The leaves are fatal to fowls, 

 whence the name, and to most domestic animals except 

 to swine. The tradition that the growing plants absorb 

 malaria of course disappears before modern theories of 

 the disease. 



Soil should be light. 



Distances. Rows twelve to eighteen inches apart. 

 Thin to nine inches in the row. 



Sow when frosts are past, or under glass. 



Pick the leaves in the second year. 



HERB-OF-GRACE. See Rue. 



HERB PATIENCE is Patience Dock. See under 

 Sorrel. 



HERBS. See under their names. As a rule, plant 

 on good, light earth in the best of tilth, cultivate fre- 

 quently, gather when dry, dry in the house, in a warm, 

 not hot room, pulverize, and store in an air-tight recep- 

 tacle. 



HOP. The Common Hop (Humulus Lupidus) is 

 sometimes used as a vegetable, the shoots being cut in 



