314 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Hyoscyamus. 



Fl. lateral, or, with some of the leaves, from the forks of the 

 stem, solitary, stalked, large, fragrant, white, or purplish. 

 Caps, beset with spines, or tubercles, or smooth, occa- 

 sionally in the same species. 



*1. D. Slramonium. Common Thorn-apple. 



Fruit spinous, ovate, erect. Leaves ovate, smooth, sinuated. 



D. Stramonium. Linn. Sp. Pl.'Zjr). fVilld.v. \.\608. Fl. Br. 2r)4. 



Engl. Bot. V. 18. t. 12S8. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. 1. 1 7. IVoodv. Med. 



Bot. t. 124. Fl. Dan. t. 436. Bull. Fr. t. 13. 

 Stramonium n. 586. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 258. 

 S. spinosum. Ger. Em. 348./. 

 Solanum porno spinoso oblongo, flora calathoide. Stramonium 



vulgo dictum. Kaii Syn.266. 

 S. Manicum Dioscoi-idis. Column. Phytoh. 46. t. 47. ed. 2. 37- 1. 12. 

 Tatula. Camer. Epit. 176. f. 



In waste ground, and on dunghills ; supposed to be the outcast of 

 gardens. 



By the road side beyond Brook, Norfolk, in the way to Bungay ; 

 observed for many years, apparently wild. About London not 

 uncommon. 



Annual. July. 



A bushy, smooth, fetid herb, 2 or 3 feet high, of a narcotic quality, 

 and greatly in repute as a remedy for the asthma, being smoked 

 like tobacco. Stem much branched, forked, spreading, leafy. 

 Leaves from the forks of the stem, large, unequal at the base, 

 variously and acutely sinuated and toothed, single-ribbed, veiny, 

 of a dull green. Fl. axillary, erect, v/hite, sweet-scented, espe- 

 cially at night, about 3 inches long. Fruit as big as a walnut 

 in its outer coat, very prickly. Seeds black. 



The mention of this plant is interposed in Ray's Stjnopsis, ed. 2, 

 150, between several paragraphs wliich relate altogether to the 

 Jtropa Belladonna ; an error which Dillenius has perpetuated in 

 his edition, 266. 



114. HYOSCYAMUS. Henbane. 



Linn. Gen. 9S. Juss. 124, Fl.Br. 254. Tourn. t. 42. Lam. 1.117. 

 Gcertn. t. 76. 



Nat. Ord. see ?t. 112. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, tubular, swelling below ; limb in 5 

 acute segments; permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, funnel- 

 shaped, irregular; tube cylindrical, short; limb rather 

 spreading, divided half way into 5 obtuse, rounded seg- 



