()2 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Atropa. 



(V. Blattaria. Moth M. Leaves clasping the stem, 

 oblong, smooth, saw-toothed ; root-ones sinuated. 

 Clusters panicled, simple. Flower-stalks longer than 

 the bracteas. E. B. 393. G. E. B. Plinii. 776. 



Banks, rare* Binfield, Berks. Tur. 



An. Jtd?/. 



Stem slightly angular, three to four feet. Cor. yellow, streaked 



with purple at the base, stained with brown at the back. Stam. 



bearded with purple hairs. Herb fetid.) 

 (* Datura Stramdnium. Common Thorn Apple, Mentioned in 



Tur. as growing near Reading, Berks.) 



HYOSCY'AMUS.' Henbane. 



H. niger. Common Henbane. Leaves sinuated, clasp- 

 ing the stem. Flowers stalkless. E. B. 591. G. E. 

 353. 



Waste ground^ hanks, commons. 

 An. June. 



Stem bushy, leafy. Ls. alternate, stalkless. Fl. spikes terminal, 

 curved back. Fl. nearly stalkless, erect, straw-coloured, pen- 

 cilled with dark purple veins. Anth. and style purplish. Whole 

 plant downy, clammy, very fetid. 



Highly narcotic. The seeds and caps, smoked together as 

 tobacco a dangerous remedy in tooth-ache. The oily seeds may 

 be safely eaten. The fumes from the seeds in tooth-ache : beat 

 the seeds in the bowl of a tobacco pipe placed in the fire : convey 

 the fumes from the pipe to the tooth by a tin tube. Extract ot 

 Henbane a substitute for opium : opening, not constipating. Dose 

 three grains to twenty in pills. The Tinct. dose half a drachm to 

 two drachms not liable to affect the head, nor disturb the biliary 

 secretion like opium. It may be advantageovisly combined with 

 Vinum. Opii, or with Tinct. of Opium. Extract diluted to dilate 

 the pupil in cataract, and contracted pupil. The roots strung as 

 beads are the anodyne necklaces of children. Mice said to avoid 

 the smell of the plant. 



ATROPA." Dwale. 



A. Belladonna. Common Dwale. Deadly Nightshade. 

 Stem herbaceous. Leaves egg-shaped, undivided. 

 Flowers solitary. E. B. 592. C. fas. 5. I6. Sola- 

 num lethale. G. E. 340. 



Hedges, waste ground, calcareous soil. Sm. * * Wychwood Forest. 



' Gr. Hus, a swine, and kiiamos, a bean. 



2 Atropos, one of the Fates : named by mistake, after a supposed Atropa, or 

 Fury. 



