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Plants with the fower formed of a sincie eval, plain, and of a regular 
form, and fucceeded by a sINGLE CAPSULE, 
dern methods in botany do not preferve it. 
The plants which compofe it are very numerous: they are the moft plainly and evidently 
connected together by nature, perhaps of any in the whole vegetable kingdom; yet Linnzus fcatters 
and feparates them throughout his works; and Mr. Ray, who has collected and preferved them to- 
gether, includes among them thofe of our fifth or next fucceeding clafs, which have the petal 
though fingle, yet far from plain. : : 
He diftributes thefe by a fubdivifion, under two heads; but they properly conftitute two clafies, 
T= is a clafs of nature’s forming, and is perfectly diftinct from all the others: yet the mo- 
Bindweed and the bell-flower are naturally allied by the fhape of their flower, and belong to the fame 
clafs; but bindweed and toadflax, though they agree in having a fingle capfule after every flower, 
and their fower compofed of one petal only ; yet are fo palpably and evidently different by the form 
of that petal, that they are naturally feparated, 
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HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and is tubular, and divided lightly into four fegments at 
the rim: thefe are all obtufe, but one is larger than the others. The feed-veffel is a fingle 
capfule, covered at the top, and divided into two parts within. 
Linneus places this among the pentandria monogynia; the threads in the flower being five in num- 
ber, and the rudiments of the fruit fingle. 
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pointed at the ends, and very deeply notched at 
the edges. Their colour is a greyifh green, and 
they have a very ill fmell. 
The root is very long, tough, white, woody, The flowers are numerous, fingular, and not 
-and furnifhed with many fibres. without beauty when examined nearly: they are 
Common. Henbane. 
Hyofcyamus vulgaris. 
The ftalks are round, hard, woody, tough, 
and varioufly and irregularly branched. 
The leaves ftand irregularly : they furround the 
-ftalk at their bafe; and are long, narrowifh, 
large, and open at the top, of a greyifh dutky 
colour, a tinét very uncommon in flowers, and 
full of veins. 
The feed-veffels follow one after every flower , 
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